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EEYNAED THE FOX IN SOUTH AFBICA ; 
 
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 HOTTENTOT FABLES AND TALES. 
 
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REYNAKD THE FOX 
 
 IN 
 
 SOUTH AFRICA; 
 
 on, 
 
 gfltottfi . ofalrUa mi ®atm 
 
 CHIEFLY TRANSLATED FEOM ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS 
 IN" THE 
 
 LIBRARY 
 
 or 
 
 HIS EXCELLENCY SIR GEORGE GREY, K.C.B. 
 
 BY 
 
 W. H. I. BLEEK, Ph.D. 
 
 LONDON : 
 
 TRTJBNER AND CO., 60, PATERNOSTER ROW. 
 
 1864. 
 
 [The Right of Translation is reserved.'] 
 
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 LOHDON: 
 
 "WILLIAM STEVENS, PKINTEB, 37, HELL TAHD, 
 
 TEMPLE BAB. 
 
 
THIS BOOK BELONGS TO 
 
 CHILDREN IN SOUTH AFRICA AND ELSEWHERE, 
 
 AND TO THEIB EBIEND 
 
 SIR GEORGE GREY, K.C.B., 
 
 NOW IN NEW ZEALAND. 
 
Vlll CONTENTS. 
 
 in. Baboon Fables. 
 
 PAGB 
 
 17. The Judgment of the Baboon . . .33 
 
 18. The Lion and the Baboon . . . 37 
 
 19. The Zebra Stallion . . . .39 
 
 20. The Lost Child (a Tale) ... 42 
 
 21. The Baboon Shepherd (a Tale) . . 44 
 
 TV. Lion Fables. 
 
 22. The Flying Lion . . , . . 45 
 
 23. The Lion who thought himself Wiser than his 
 
 Mother . . . . .47 
 
 24. The Lion who took a Woman's Shape . . 50 
 
 25. A Woman transformed into a Liqn (a Tale) 57 
 
 26. The Lion and the Bushman (a Tale) . . 59 
 
 V. Various Fables. 
 
 27. How a Nama Woman outwitted the Elephants . 61 
 
 28. A Bad Sister . . . .65 
 
 VI. Sun and Moon Fables. 
 
 29. Why has the Jackal a long black Stripe on his 
 
 Back P . . . . . 67 
 
 30. The Horse cursed by the Sun . . .68 
 
 31. The Origin of Death . . . . 69 
 
 32. Another Version of the same Fable . . 71 
 
 33. A Third Version of the same Fable . . 72 
 
CONTENTS. IX 
 
 PAGE 
 
 34. A Fourth Version of the same Fable . . 73 
 
 35. A Zulu Version of the Legend of the " Origin of 
 
 Death" . . . . . 74 
 
 VII. Hbitsi Eibip and other Legends. 
 
 36. Heitsi Eibip . . .75 
 
 37. The Victory of Heitsi Eibip . . . 77 
 
 38. Another Version of the same Legend . . 78 
 
 39. The Raisin-Eater . . . . 80 
 
 40. Origin of the Difference in Modes of Life between 
 
 Hottentots and Bushmen . . .83 
 
 Vm. Household Tales. 
 
 41. The Little' Wise "Woman . . . . 85 
 
 42. The Unreasonable Child to whom the Dog gave 
 
 its Deserts ; or, a Receipt for getting any one 
 
 to Sleep . . . . .90 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 My dear Sir George, 
 
 In inscribing to you this little book, I do no 
 more than offer that which is your due, as its ap- 
 pearance is mainly owing to you. It was by your 
 desire that I wrote, in 1861, to different Missionaries 
 in South Africa, requesting them to make collections 
 of Native Literature, similar in nature to those 
 which, through your instrumentality, had been so 
 abundantly rescued from oblivion in New Zealand. 
 I then wrote, among others, to the Rev. G. Kronlein, 
 Rhenish Missionary at Beerseba, Great Namaqua- 
 land ; but it was not till after you had left us, on a 
 new mission of honour and duty, that I received 
 from him (at five different periods) the original manu- 
 scripts from which most of the Fables given here 
 are translated. He sent us, altogether, twenty-four 
 
xil PREFACE. 
 
 Fables, Tales, and Legends, besides twelve Songs of 
 Praise, thirty-two Proverbs, and twelve Riddles ; all 
 in Hottentot (as taken down by him from the mouth 
 of the Natives) and German, partly accompanied by 
 explanatory notes, including fragments of the /Nusa * 
 Bushman language. Mr. Kronlein's manuscripts 
 fill sixty-five pages, mostly in quarto, with double 
 columns. 
 
 You are aware that the existence of Fables among 
 the Hottentots was already known to us through Sir 
 James Alexander's " Expedition of Discovery into 
 the Interior of Africa" (8vo., two vols., London, 
 1838), and that some interesting specimens of their 
 literature had been given by him in that work ; but 
 that Fables form so extensive a mass of traditionary 
 Native literature amongst the Namaqua, has first 
 been brought to light by Mr. Kronlein's communica- 
 tions. The fact of such a literary capacity existing 
 among a nation whose mental qualifications it has 
 been usual to estimate at the lowest standard, is of 
 the greatest importance ; and that their literary 
 activity (in contradistinction to the general character 
 
 * Cisgariepian, from the Nama point of view, i e., to the 
 North of the Orange River. 
 
PREFACE, m 
 
 of Native literature among Negro nations) has been 
 employed almost in the same direction as that which 
 had been taken by our own earliest literature, is in 
 itself of great significance. 
 
 Some questions of no trifling importance and in- 
 terest are raised by the appearance of such an un- 
 looked-for mine of literary lore, particularly as to the 
 originality of these Fables. Whether they are indeed 
 the real offspring of the desert, and can be considered 
 as truly indigenous Native literature, or whether they 
 have been either purloined from the superior white 
 race, or at least brought into existence by the stim- 
 ulus which contact with the latter gave to the Native 
 mind (like that resulting in the invention of the 
 Tshiroki and Vei alphabets) may be matters of dis- 
 pute for some time to come, and it may require 
 as much research as was expended upon the solv- 
 ing of the riddle of the originality of the Ossianic 
 poems. 
 
 But whatever may be the ultimate result of such 
 inquiries, whether it will confirm our idea of the 
 originality and antiquity of the main portion of these 
 Hottentot Fables, and consequently stamp them with 
 the character of the oldest and most primitive literary 
 remains of the old mother tongue of the Sexdenoting 
 
XIV PREFACE. 
 
 nations, or whether they have only sprung up recently 
 among the Hottentots from foreign seed — in either 
 case the disposition of the Hottentots to the enjoy- 
 ment of such Fables, and their easy growth on this 
 arid soil, be it their native or adopted one — shows 
 a much greater congeniality between the Hottentot 
 and European mind than we find between the latter 
 and any of the black races of Africa. 
 
 This similarity in the disposition of nations can 
 in itself indeed hardly be considered as a valid proof 
 of common ancestry ; but if there be other grounds 
 to make us believe that the nations in question, or at 
 least their languages, are of common origin, it may 
 render us more inclined to assume that such a simi- 
 larity in their literary taste is derived also from the 
 same source. 
 
 The great ethnological difference between the Hot- 
 tentots and the black nations of South Africa has 
 been a marked fact from almost the earliest acquaint- 
 ance of Europeans with these parts, and occasional 
 stray guesses (for example, in R. Moffat's " Mission- 
 ary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa," 1842, 
 p. 6), have already for some time pointed to a North 
 African origin for the Hottentots. 
 
 It is, however, only within the last dozen years 
 
PREFACE. xv 
 
 that this has been established as a proved, and, I be- 
 lieve to most observers, an, at first, astonishing fact. 
 I well remember still the feeling of most curious 
 interest with which I regarded Knudsen's translation 
 of Luke's Gospel (vol. i., No. 15 of your Library), 
 when, in April 1850, it was sent me by the then 
 Inspector of the Rhenish Mission House, the Eev J. 
 C. Wallmann, for the purpose of ascertaining whether 
 the language was in any way akin to those of the 
 surrounding black nations, and whether, on that ac- 
 count, an already acquired acquaintance with any of 
 the Hottentot dialects would render it easier for a 
 Missionary to master one of the Negro or Kafir 
 tongues.* 
 
 * I give here some extracts from Mr. "WaUmann's letter, 
 dated Barmen, 13th April, 1850, which was the only help 
 of a grammatical or lexical nature then available for me in 
 my study of this Kama translation of Luke's Gospel : — 
 
 " I transmit hereby Luke's Gospel in Namaqua, . . . 
 which I can lend you, however, only for four weeks, as I 
 have already previously promised it to some one else. 
 
 " Should your labours permit it, I wish to request you to 
 make a little trial whether the Namaqua is somewhat 
 related to the South African family of Languages. For 
 the present a mere negative decision on this point is all 
 that is wanted, and I should like to have very soon the 
 opinion of some good philologist regarding it. Moffat 
 
XVI PREFACE. 
 
 I Had, however, at that time not the least idea of 
 the results to which a knowledge of this language 
 
 states that when he gave specimens of Namaqua to a 
 Syrian who came from Egypt, he was told that he (the 
 Syrian) had seen slaves in the market of Cairo who were of 
 lighter colour than other Africans, and whose language 
 resembled that of the Namaqua. Moffat also says that 
 some ancient authors have mentioned a nation in the 
 interior of Africa who were very similar to the Hottentots. 
 Moffat seems himself, however, to ascribe little value to 
 these accountsj for his guesses fall at once upon the 
 Chinese. According to communications from our Mis- 
 sionary Knudsen, the Namaqua language seems well 
 formed. He mentions as personal pronouns : — 
 
 Tita saaz xyb sada sako xytu 
 
 I thou he we you they 
 
 (sats) (lleip) (J/eiku.) 
 
 but to show the modifications which the pronouns undergo 
 according to the gender, and whether the person (spoken to) 
 is included or excluded (in the first person plural), the fol- 
 lowing examples of inclusive or exclusive forms are given : — 
 
 " "We are captains." 
 
 (incl.) Sake ke kauauke \ -. 
 
 (excl.) Sike he kauauke J 
 
 (incl.) Sase he kautase^) » 
 
 (excl.) Sise he kautase J 
 
 (incl.) Sada he tana-khoida~) 
 
 (excl.) Sida ke tana-khoida 5 
 
 (incl.) Sakhom ke kauaukhoma \ -, -. , 
 
 (excl.) Sikhom ke kauaukhoma i 
 
PREFACE. XTll 
 
 would lead me ; and being then mostly occupied with 
 the study of the Setshuana and kindred languages — 
 which seemed to me of paramount interest for com- 
 parative philology — I did not at first give undivided 
 attention to the perusal of this curious volume. I 
 remarked very soon, however, a striking similarity 
 between the Hottentot signs of gender and those of 
 the Coptic language ; but for some time I considered 
 it as purely accidental, which may be seen from a 
 letter of mine regarding this subject, published by 
 Mr. Wallmann, in " Berichten der Bheinischen Mis- 
 
 (incl.) Saam lie kautama ~) -, , «. 
 (excl.) Siim he kautama J 
 (incl.) Saam he tana-hhoima~) -, _, 
 (excl.) Siim he tana-lchoima J 
 
 " The second person of the plural is said to have not more 
 than half as many distinctions ; and the third person plural 
 has only the following : — 
 
 xyhu he hauauga — mascul. 
 Xljte he hautate — fern. 
 xyn he tana-hlioina — com. 
 Xyhha he hauauhha — dual, mascul. 
 xyra he hautara — dual. fern. 
 xy ra & e tana-hhoira — dual. com. 
 
 "You will therefore oblige me by looking into the 
 Namaqua Luke, and by having the kindness to write me 
 your opinion regarding it." 
 
 b 
 
XVU1 PREFACE. 
 
 sions-Gesellschaft " (Reports of the Rhenish Mission- 
 ary Society, I860, No. 24, if I am not mistaken in 
 the number). 
 
 Soon, however, what were at first mere isolated 
 facts, became links, in a chain of evidence, showing 
 that all those Sexdenoting Languages which were then 
 known to us in Africa, Asia, and Europe, are members 
 of one large family, of which the primitive type has, 
 in most respects, been best preserved to us in the 
 Hottentot language. 
 
 It was even as early as the end of 1850 that I 
 could write to Mr. Wallmann — " This language (the 
 Hottentot) is to me at this moment of greater interest 
 than any other. The facts, of which once before I 
 have given you some account, have now so increased 
 upon me, and offer such strong analogies, that there 
 is no further doubt in my own mind that not only 
 the Coptic but also the Semitic, and all other lan- 
 guages of Africa (as Berber, the Gralla dialect, &c, 
 &c.) in which the distinction of the masculine and 
 feminine gender pervades the whole grammar, are 
 of common origin." 
 
 Part of the result of these researches was then pub- 
 lished in my dissertation, " De Nominum Generibus 
 Linguarirm Africse, Australis, Cbpticse, Semiticaruin 
 
PBEFACE. XIX 
 
 aliarumque Sexualium" (8vo., Bonn, 6th August, 
 1851, vol. i., No. 1 of your Library). 
 
 I was at that time not aware — nor has it come to 
 my knowledge till within the last few weeks — that 
 on the 10th June, 1851, Dr. J. C. Adamsox, in com- 
 municating to the Syro-Egyptian Society some obser- 
 vations on the analysis of languages, with a special 
 reference to those of South Africa, had stated " That 
 the signs of gender were almost identical in the 
 Naraaqua and the Egyptian, and the feminine affix 
 might be considered as being the same in all three" * 
 (Namaqua, Galla, and Old Egyptian). 
 
 Another curious agreement on this point, by an 
 apparently independent observer (Mr. J. R. Logan),! 
 
 * Report of the Correspondence and Paper read at the 
 General Meeting of the Syro-Egyptian Society, Session of 
 1851 and 1852. Read at the Anniversary Meeting, held 
 April 20th, 1852, 8vo. pp. 6, 8. 
 
 f " Ethnology of the Indo-Pacific Islands." By J. R. 
 Logan, Esq., Hon. Fellow of the Ethnological Society. Lan- 
 guage, Part ii. "The Races and Languages of S.E. Asia, 
 considered in relation to those of the Indo-Pacific Islands," 
 Chapter v., sections i. to vi. [Prom the Journal of the In- 
 dian Archipelago and Eastern Asia, June and December, 
 1853, to December, 1854.] Singapore : Printed by Jakob 
 Baptist, 8vo., pp. 229, 294, sec. 6. The Semitico-African 
 
 6 2 
 
XX PREFACE. 
 
 was pointed out to me by your Excellency. You 
 also suggested this name of "Sexdenoting.Languages." 
 But it is superfluous for me to say any thing of what 
 you have done for the advancement of African, as 
 well as Australian and Polynesian, philology. 
 
 It has been justly remarked by our learned friend, 
 Mr. Justice Watekmeyek, that the natural propen- 
 sities of animals in all parts of the world being so 
 much alike, Fables intended to portray them must 
 also be expected to resemble each other greatly, even 
 to their very details. 
 
 But we may well ask why it is that, so far as we 
 know, the Kafir imagination seems not at all inclined 
 to the formation of this class of fictitious tales, though 
 they have otherwise a prolific Native literature of a 
 more or less historic and legendary character. This 
 contrast to what we find among the Hottentots ap- 
 pears not to be accidental, but merely a natural con- 
 sequence of that difference of structure which dis- 
 tinguishes these two classes of languages, embracing 
 respectively the dialects of the Hottentots on the one 
 
 Languages, viz. : — 1. General Characters, p. 229; 2. Egyptian, 
 p. 248 ; 3. Hottentot, p. 248 ; 4. Shemo-Hamitic, or Assyro- 
 Berber, p. 259. 
 
PREFACE. XXI 
 
 hand, and those of the Kafirs and their kindred na- 
 tions on the other ; in the former (the Hottentot), 
 as in all other really Sexdenoting Languages, the 
 grammatical divisions of the nouns into genders, which 
 do not tally exactly with any distinction observed in 
 nature, has been brought into a certain reference to 
 the difference of sex ; and on that account this dis- 
 tinction of sex seems in some way to extend even to 
 inanimate beings, whereby a tendency to the per- 
 sonification of impersonal objects is produced, which 
 in itself is likely to lead the mind towards ascribing 
 reason and other human attributes to irrational beings. 
 This is the real orgin of almost all those poetical 
 conceptions which we call Fables and Myths. 
 Both are based on the personification of imper- 
 sonal beings — the former by ascribing speech and 
 reason to the lower animals, whilst the latter sub- 
 stitute human-like agencies in explanation of celes- 
 tial and other ■ elementary phenomena in place of 
 their real cause. 
 
 Mythology is, in its origin, most generally either 
 a mere figure of speech or a poetical explanation 
 suggested by the grammatical form or etymological 
 meaning of words, indicating certain striking natural 
 phenomena. In the primary stage of their produc- 
 
XXU PEEFACM 
 
 tion, Myths may be supposed to have been always 
 understood in their true original character ; and it 
 is only when in the course of generations their real 
 origin has been obscured, and they have become 
 merely the petrified excrescences of a traditionary 
 creed, that their apparent absurdity makes them at 
 first sight almost inexplicable, particularly when 
 found among nations of a high intelligence. 
 
 The humbler sisters of the Myths, the Fables based 
 on the natural propensities of animals, are not obscured 
 in their real character so easily as the former, and 
 have, on that account, more generally retained their 
 simple usefulness as moral teachers ; so, though they 
 may have preceded even Myths as to the date of their 
 first conception, they yet outlive them as real and 
 salutary elements of the best national literatures : not 
 that Myths had not their own beneficial sphere in the 
 education of mankind, as leading them oh to higher 
 abstract ideas, and even deeper religious thoughts, 
 but their very power of exerting a much deeper in- 
 fluence on the destinies of our race, made it essential 
 that they should have a more transitory existence in 
 the civilizing process of the Sexdenoting nations — 
 who have to give up mythologies so soon as through 
 them they have gained higher religious ideas — while 
 
PREFACE- XX1U 
 
 Fables, which never claim so high a place among the 
 elements of furthering the eliminating process of our 
 species, remain always welcome to most classes of 
 readers at certain periods of their intellectual deve- 
 lopment. 
 
 Children, and also simple-minded grown-up people, 
 whose taste has not been spoiled by the poison of 
 over-exciting reading, will always be amused by the 
 quaintly expressed moral lessons which they receive 
 through every good Fable ; and the more thorough 
 student of literature will also regard with pleasure 
 these first innocent plays of awakening human imagi- 
 nation. To all these the Hottentot Fables offered 
 here may not be unwelcome as a fresh store of 
 original compositions, or even as old acquaintances 
 who gain a new interest in different clothing and 
 scenery. 
 
 To make these Hottentot Fables readable for the 
 general public, a few slight omissions and alterations 
 of what would otherwise have been too naked for the 
 English eye were necessary, but they do not in any 
 essential way affect the spirit of the Fables. Other- 
 wise, the translation is faithful to the original, though 
 not exactly literal. 
 
 It would of course be presumptuous to believe that 
 
xxiv FSEIACE. 
 
 we could here discuss fully the originality or date of 
 composition of these Fables, and all the many ques- 
 tions involved therein. 
 
 The modern origin of some of the Fables, as, for 
 instance, that of The Cock (12), Fish-Stealing (8), 
 The Judgment of the Baboon (17), and The Curse 
 of the Horse (30), is very evident ; others, e.g., The 
 "White Man and the Snake (5 & 6), indicate clearly 
 a European origin. Others, however, have strong 
 claims to be regarded not merely as genuine products 
 of the Hottentot mind, but even as portions of a tra- 
 ditionary Native literature, anterior in its origin to 
 the advent of Europeans. 
 
 That the latter is a true view of the subject 
 becomes perhaps the more conclusive by the inti- 
 mate relations in which, among the Hottentots, 
 Myths still stand to Fables ; in fact, a true mytho- 
 logy can hardly be said to exist among them; for 
 Myths (as that of The Origin of Death) are in 
 reality as much Fables as Myths ; but we may 
 consider these as analogous to the first germs whence 
 sprang those splendid mythologies which have filled 
 with deep devotional feelings the hearts of many 
 millions among the most intelligent races of the 
 earth. 
 
PREFACE. XXV 
 
 This higher flight of the imaginative faculty 
 •which the Sexdenoting nations possess (through the 
 stimulus of this personification of impersonal things, 
 consequent upon the grammatical structure of their 
 languages), and what it had been to them, be- 
 comes the more evident if we compare their lite- 
 rature with that of the Kafirs and other black tribes 
 of South Africa. 
 
 As the grammatical structure of languages spoken 
 by the latter does not in itself suggest personifica- 
 tion, these nations are almost, as a matter of course, 
 destitute of Myths as well as Fables. Their literary 
 efforts are, as a general rule, restricted to narrating the 
 doings of men in a more or less historical manner — 
 whence we have a number of household tales, and 
 portions of a fabulous history of these tribes and na- 
 tions ; or their ancestor worship and belief in the 
 supernatural give rise to horrible ghost stories and 
 tales of witchcraft, which would be exciting if they 
 were not generally told in such a long-winded, 
 prosy manner, as must make the best story lose 
 its interest. 
 
 Of course for the comparative philologist, and for 
 any one who takes an interest in observing the work- 
 ing of the human mind in its most primitive stages, 
 
XXVI PREFACE. 
 
 these pieces of Kafir and Negro native literature 
 will also have their own interest ; it is therefore to 
 be hoped that time and circumstances may soon 
 allow us to publish also the other portions of South 
 African native literature extant in manuscript in 
 your library. 
 
 Among these we have principally to mention, as 
 new contributions (received after your departure), 
 twenty-three pieces in o Tyi-herero, or the Damara 
 language, as written down by natives themselves, 
 copied by the Rev. J. Rath (Rhenish Missionary, for- 
 merly in Damara Land, now at Sarepta Knils River), 
 and accompanied with a German translation by 
 him.* 
 
 * Mr. Rath's Manuscript consists of sixty-one pages, with 
 double columns, foolscap folio. It contains the following 
 pieces : — 
 
 1. The Spectre Sweethearts, pp. 1, 2. 
 
 2. The Lion Husbands, pp. 2, 5. 
 
 3. Tenacity of a Loving Mother's Care, pp. 5, 6. 
 
 4. The Girl who ran after her Father's Bird, pp. 6, 12. 
 
 5. The Handsome Girl, pp. 12, 15. 
 
 6. The Little Bushman Woman, pp. 17, 18. 
 
 7. Punishment of Imposition, pp. 19, 21. 
 
 8. The Spectre who Fell in Love with his Son's Wife, 
 
 pp. 22, 23. 
 
 9. The Lunatic, p. 23. 
 
PBEFACE. XXVll 
 
 Among these pieces there are seven ghost stories, 
 four accounts of transformation of men or animals, 
 eleven other household tales, one legend, and one fable. 
 This last piece (No. 11, pp. 27, 29) is probably of 
 Hottentot origin. I have therefore thought it best 
 to give it a place in this little book (No. 14), where 
 it precedes that Hottentot Fable,to which its conclud- 
 
 10. The Girls who Escaped from the Hill Damaras, pp. 
 
 24, 26. 
 
 11. The Elephant and the Tortoise, pp. 27, 29. 
 
 12. The Two Wives, pp, 29, 33. 
 
 13. The Lion who took different Shapes, pp. 34, 35. 
 
 14. The Little Girl left in the Well by her wicked Com- 
 
 panions, pp. 35, 38. 
 
 15. The Unreasonable Child to whom the Dog gave its 
 
 Deserts, pp. 39, 43. 
 
 16. Rutanga, p. 44. 
 
 17. The Ghost of the Man who was Killed by a Rhinoceros 
 
 in consequence of his Father's Curse, pp. 45, 47. 
 
 18. The Trials of Hambeka, a Spirit risen from the Dead, 
 
 pp. 47, 50. 
 
 19. The Little Girl who was teased by an Insect, p. 51. 
 
 20. The same as 16 (Rutanga) p. 52. 
 
 21. Conjugal Love after Death, p. 53. 
 
 22. The Bad Katjungu and the Good Kahavundye, pp. 
 
 54, 57. 
 
 23. The Wife who went after her Husband, pp. 57, 59. 
 
 24. The Little Girl Murdered by the Hill Damara, pp. 
 
 59, 61. 
 
XXV111 PREFACE. 
 
 ing portions bear such a striking resemblance. It 
 is not unlikely that the beginning of this Hottentot 
 Fable of The Giraffe and the Tortoise is missing. It 
 may have been similar to the beginning of the corres- 
 ponding one in Damara. As far as it goes the Hot- 
 tentot Fable is however evidently more original than 
 the o Tyi-herero text. As a specimen of o Tyi- 
 herero household tales, I have given Eath's fif- 
 teenth piece, the story of The Unreasonable Child 
 to whom the Dog gave its Deserts. 
 
 You will also approve of my having added the Zulu 
 legend of the Origin of Death, which in its mixture 
 of Fable and Myth, and even in several details of its 
 composition, shows a great analogy to the Hottentot 
 treatment of the same subject, of which I am able to 
 give here four different versions. 
 
 A second version of two or three other fables, 
 and of one legend, has also been given from one 
 of the two important manuscripts in German, re- 
 garding the Hottentots and their language, pre- 
 pared for you by Mr. Knudsen.* The same manu- 
 
 * The title of Mr. Knudsen's first Manuscript is, " Sud- 
 africa : Das Hottentot-Volt ; Notizzen (Manuscript) H. 0. 
 Knudsen." 4to., p. 12. Its contents are, Bushman Land, 
 
PREFACE. XXIX 
 
 script supplied also a legend of The Origin of Dif- 
 ference in Modes of Life between Hottentots and 
 Bushmen, -which we do not yet possess in the Hot- 
 tentot language. 
 
 To make our available stock of Kama Hottentot 
 literature quite complete, three fables and four tales 
 
 p. 3 ; the different kinds of Bain, p. 3 ; Bethany (in Great 
 Namaqualand), p. 3; the Damara, p. 4; the Grassy Plain, 
 p. 4 ; the Diseases, pp. 4, 5 ; Birdsnests, p. 5 ; Marriage 
 and Wedding among the Namaqua, p. 5 ;' Extent of Autho- 
 rity among the Namaqua, p. 5 ; Similarity with the Jewish 
 manner of Thinking, Counting, Eating, Drinking, Praying, 
 Mode of Speech, and manner of Beckoning Belationship, 
 p. 6 ; Heitsi Eibip or Kabip, p. 7 ; Origin of the Modes of 
 Life of the Namaqua and Bushmen, pp. 7, 8; Coming of 
 Age among the Hottentots, p. 8; Names of Hottentot 
 Tribes and their probable Etymology, pp. 8, 9; Are the 
 Hottentots of Egyptian or Phoenician Origin ? p. 9 ; Are 
 the Hottentots of Jewish or Moabitic Origin ? pp. 9, 10 ; 
 Appendix, pp. 11, 12. 
 
 Mr. Knudsen's second Manuscript has the following 
 title, " Stoff zu einer Grammatik in der Namaquasprache 
 (Manuscript), H. C. Knudsen." 4to. pp. 29. After a few 
 general introductory remarks, and a short explanation of 
 the Hottentot Alphabet, Mr. Knudsen treats of the dif- 
 ferent Parts of Speech : — I. Nouns, pp. 3, 4 ; II. Adjectives, 
 pp. 4, 5 ; III. Pronouns, pp. 5, 10 ; IV. Numerals, p. 11 ; 
 V. "Verbs, pp. 12, 24 ; Interrogative Sentences, pp. 25, 26 ; 
 Concluding Remarks, pp. 26, 29. 
 
XXX PREFACE. 
 
 have been taken from Sir James Alexander's " Expe- 
 dition," &c., and inserted here, with only few insigni- 
 ficant verbal alterations. 
 
 The " Songs of Praise," given as notes to some of 
 the Fables in this volume, are merely intended as 
 specimens of Hottentot poetry. They can hardly be 
 expected to amuse or interest the general reader — 
 at least, not in the form in which they appear 
 here, though a Longfellow might be able to render 
 some of them in a way that would make them at- 
 tractive. 
 
 In the same manner the materials contained in 
 these Hottentot Fables might be worked out similarly 
 to Goethe's "Reinecke Fuchs ;" and we should hereby 
 probably gain an epical composition, which, though 
 not ranking so high as the latter poem, would yet, 
 as regards the interest of its subject-matter, far ex- 
 ceed Longfellow's " Hiawatha " in adaptation to the 
 general taste. 
 
 How much Native productions gain when repre- 
 sented skilfully and properly, your admirable work 
 on " Polynesian Mythology " has shown. But you 
 had sterner and more important work on hand, 
 and so I have had to do this without you. That it 
 does not appear in a still more imperfect form, I owe 
 
PREFACE. XXXI 
 
 mainly to the help of one who naturally takes the 
 greatest interest in all my pursuits. 
 
 In writing the last lines of this Preface, the interest 
 which I feel for these Hottentot Fables is almost 
 fading away before those rich treasures of your library 
 which have just arrived from England ; and as all 
 our present efforts are of course given to the proper 
 settling of these jewels of our library, I can merely 
 send, with grateful acknowledgments, our most fer- 
 vent wishes for your well-doing, and our sincere hope 
 of seeing you, at no distant day, again in the midst 
 of us. 
 
 Believe me, 
 
 My dear Sir George, 
 
 Tours most faithfully, 
 
 W. H. I. BLEEK 
 
 Capetown", April, 1863. 
 
JACKAL FABLES, 
 
 1. THE LION'S DEFEAT. 
 
 (The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir GS-. Grey's 
 Library, Gr. Kronlein's Manuscript, pp. 19, 20.) 
 
 THE wild animals, it is said, were once assembled 
 at the Lion's. When the Lion was asleep, the Jackal 
 persuaded the little Fox* to twist a rope of ostrich 
 sinews, in order to play the Lion a trick. They took 
 ostrich sinews, twisted them, and fastened the rope to 
 the Lion's tail, and the other end of the rope they 
 tied to a shrub. When the Lion awoke, and saw that 
 he was tied up, he became angry, and called the 
 animals together. When they had assembled, he 
 said (using this form of conjuration) — 
 
 * The little Fox, in Nama the IKamap, a small kind of 
 Jackal, who is a swift runner. The Jackal's name is 
 /Gririp. (The / is the dental and the .' the cerebral click ; 
 vide Notes to Fables 23 and 27, pp. 47, 62.) 
 
 B I 
 
■i JACKAL FAB LBS. 
 
 " "What child of his mother and father's love, 
 Whose mother and father's love has tied me ?" 
 
 Then answered the animal to whom the question 
 was first put — 
 
 " I, child of my mother and father's love, 
 I, mother and father's love, I have not done it." 
 
 All answered the same ; but when he asked the 
 little Fox, the little Fox said — 
 
 " I, child of my mother and father's love, 
 I, mother and father's love, have tied thee !" 
 
 Then the Lion tore the rope made of sinews, and 
 ran after the little Fox. But the Jackal said — 
 
 " My boy, thou son of the lean Mrs. Fox, thou wilt 
 never be caught." 
 
 Truly the Lion was thus beaten in running by the 
 little Fox. 
 
2. THE HUNT OF THE LION AND JACKAL. 
 
 (The original, in tke Hottentot language, is in Sir G. Grey's 
 Library, Q-. Kronleia's Manuscript, pp. 18, 19.) 
 
 THE Lion and the Jackal, it is said, were one day 
 lying in wait for elands. The Lion shot (with the 
 bow) and missed, but the Jackal hit and sang out, 
 "Hah! Hah!" The Lion said, ".No, you did not 
 shoot anything. It was I who hit." The Jackal 
 answered, " Yea, my father, thou hast hit." Then 
 they went home in order to return when the eland 
 was dead, and cut it up. The Jackal, however, turned 
 back, unknown to the Lion, hit his nose so that the 
 blood ran on the spoor of the elands, and followed 
 their track thus, in order to cheat the Lion. When 
 he had gone some distance, he returned by another 
 way to the dead eland, and creeping into its carcase, 
 cut out all the fat. 
 
 Meanwhile the Lion followed the bloodstained spoor 
 of the Jackal, thinking that it was elands' blood, and 
 only when he had gone some distance did he find out 
 that he had been deceived. He then returned on the 
 
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4 JACKAL FABLES. 
 
 Jackal's spoor, and reached the dead eland, where, 
 finding the Jackal in its carcase, he seized him by 
 his tail and drew him out with a swing. 
 
 The Lion upbraided the Jackal with these words : 
 " Why do you cheat me ?" The Jackal answered : 
 " No, my father, I do not cheat you ; you may know 
 it, I think. I prepared this fat for you, father." The 
 Lion said : " Then take the fat and bring it to your 
 mother " (the Lioness) ; and he gave him the lungs 
 to take to his own wife and children. 
 
 When the Jackal arrived, he did not give the fat 
 to the Lion's wife, but to his own wife and children ; 
 he gave, however, the lungs to the Lion's wife, and 
 he pelted the Lion's little children with the lungs, 
 saying : 
 
 " You children of the big-pawed one ! 
 You big-pawed ones ! " 
 
 He said to the Lioness, " I go to help my father " 
 (the Lion) ; but he went quite away with his wife 
 and children. 
 
3. THE LION'S SHAKE. 
 
 (From a German original Manuscript in Sir Gr. Grey's Library, 
 viz., H. C. Knudsen's " Notes on the Hottentots," pp. 11, 12.) 
 
 THE Lion and the Jackal went together a-hunting. 
 They shot with arrows. The Lion shot first, but 
 his arrow fell short of its aim ; but the Jackal hit the 
 game, and joyfully cried out, "It has hit." The 
 Lion looked at him with his two large eyes ; the 
 Jackal, however, did not lose his countenance, but 
 said, " No, Uncle, I mean to say that you have hit." 
 Then they followed the game, and the Jackal passed 
 the arrow of the Lion without drawing the latter's 
 attention to it. "When they arrived at a cross-way, the 
 Jackal said, "Dear Uncle, you are old and tired; stay 
 here." The Jackal went then on a wrong track, beat 
 his nose, and, in returning, let the blood drop from it 
 like traces of game. "I could not find anything," he 
 said, " but I met with traces of blood. You had better 
 go yourself to look for it. In the meantime I shall go 
 this other way." . The Jackal soon found the killed 
 animal, crept inside of it, and devoured the best por- 
 
6 JACKAL FABLES. 
 
 tion ; but his tail remained outside, and when the 
 Lion arrived, he got hold of it, pulled the Jackal out, 
 and threw him on the ground with these words : 
 " You rascal ! " The Jackal rose quickly again, 
 complained of the rough handling, and asked, "What 
 have I then now done, dear Uncle ? I was busy 
 cutting out the best part." "Now let us go and 
 fetch our wives," said the Lion ; but the Jackal en- 
 treated his dear Uncle to remain at the place because 
 he was old. The Jackal went then away, taking with 
 him two portions of the flesh, one for his own wife, 
 but the best part for the wife of the Lion. When the 
 Jackal arrived with the flesh, the children of the Lion 
 saw him, began to jump, and clapping their hands, cried 
 out, " There comes Uncle with flesh I" The Jackal 
 threw, grumbling, the worst portion to them, and 
 said, " There, you brood of the big-eyed one !" Then 
 he went to his own house and told his wife im- 
 mediately to break up the house, and to go where the 
 killed game was. The Lioness wished to do the same, 
 but he forbade her, and said that the Lion would 
 himself come to fetch her. 
 
 When the Jackal, with his wife and children, had 
 arrived in the neighbourhood of the killed animal, he 
 ran into a thorn bush, scratched his face so that it 
 bled, and thus made his appearance before the Lion, 
 
THE LION'S SHARE. 7 
 
 to whom lie said, " Ah ! what a wife you have got. 
 Look here, how she scratched my face when I told 
 her that she should come with us. You must 
 fetch her yourself; I cannot bring her." The Lion 
 went home very angry. Then the Jackal said, 
 " Quick, let us build a tower." They heaped stone 
 upon stone, stone upon stone, stone upon stone ; 
 and when it was high enough, everything was carried 
 to the top of it. When the Jackal saw the Lion ap- 
 proaching with his wife and children, he cried out to 
 him, " Uncle, whilst you were away we have built a 
 tower, in order to be better able to see game." 
 " All right," said the Lion ; " but let me come up to 
 you." " Certainly, dear Uncle ; but how will you 
 manage to come up ? We must let down a thong for 
 you." The Lion ties himself to the thong, and is 
 drawn up ; but when he is nearly at the top the thong 
 is cut by the Jackal, who exclaims, as if frightened, 
 " Oh, how heavy you are, Uncle ! Go, wife, fetch me 
 a new thong." ("An old one," he said aside to her.) 
 The Lion is again drawn up, but comes of course 
 down in the same manner. " No," said the Jackal, 
 " that will never do ; you must, however, manage to 
 come up high enough, so that you may get a mouth- 
 ful at least. Then aloud he orders his wife to pre- 
 pare a good piece, but aside he tells her to make a 
 
o JACKAL FABLES. 
 
 stone hot, and to cover it with fat. Then he drew 
 up the Lion once more, and, complaining that 
 he is very heavy to hold, he tells him to open his 
 mouth, whereupon he throws the hot stone down his 
 throat. When the Lion has devoured it, he entreats 
 and requests him to run as quickly as possible to the 
 water. 
 
4. THE JACKAL'S BRIDE. 
 
 (The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir Gr. Grey's 
 Library, Gr. Kronlein's Manuscript, pp. 7, 8.) 
 
 THE Jackal, it is said, married the Hyena, and carried 
 off a cow belonging to ants, to slaughter her for the 
 wedding ; and when he had slaughtered her, he put 
 the cow- skin over his bride ; and when he had fixed 
 a pole (on which to hang the flesh), he placed on the 
 top of the pole (which was forked) the hearth for 
 cooking, in order to cook upon it all sorts of delicious 
 food. There came also the Lion to the spot, and 
 wished to go up. The Jackal, therefore, asked his 
 little daughter for a thong with which he could pull 
 the Lion up, and he began to pull him up ; and when 
 his face came near to the cooking-pot, he cut the 
 thong in two, so that the Lion tumbled down. Then 
 the Jackal upbraided his little daughter with these 
 words : " Why do you give me such an old thong ?" 
 And he added, " Give me a fresh thong." She gave 
 him a new thong, and he pulled the Lion up again, 
 and when his face came near the pot, which stood on 
 
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 JACKAL FABLES. 
 
 the fire, he said, " Open your mouth." Then he put 
 into his mouth a hot piece of quartz which had been 
 boiled together with the fat, and the stone went down, 
 burning his throat. Thus died the Lion. 
 
 There came also the ants running after the cow, 
 and when the Jackal saw them he fled. Then they 
 beat the bride in her brookaross dress. The Hyena, 
 believing that it was the Jackal, said — 
 
 " You tawny rogue ! have you not played at beating 
 long enough ? 
 Have you no more loving game than this ?" 
 
 But when she had bitten a hole through the cow- 
 skin, she saw that they were other people ; then she 
 fled, falling here and there, yet she made her escape. 
 
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 5. THE WHITE MAN AND THE SNAKE. 
 
 (The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir G\ Grey's 
 Library, G-. Kronlein's Manuscript, pp. 5, 6.) 
 
 A White Man, it is said, met a Snake upon whom a 
 large stone had fallen and covered her, so that she 
 could not rise. The White Man lifted the stone off 
 the Snake, but when he had done so, she wanted to 
 bite him. The White Man said, " Stop ! let us both 
 go first to some wise people." They went to the 
 Hyena, and the White Man asked him, " Is it right 
 that the Snake should want to bite me, though I 
 helped her, when she lay under a stone and could not 
 rise ?" 
 
 The Hyena (who thought he would get his share of 
 the White Man's body) said : " If you were bitten 
 what would it matter ? " 
 
 Then the Snake wanted to bite him, but the White 
 Man said again: "Wait a little, and let us go to 
 other wise people, that I may hear whether this is 
 right." 
 
 They went and met the Jackal. The White Man 
 said to the Jackal : " Is it right that the Snake wants 
 
12 JACKAL FASLUS. 
 
 to bite me, though I lifted up the stone which lay upon 
 her ?" 
 
 The Jackal replied : "I do not believe that the 
 Snake could be covered by a stone and could not rise. 
 Unless I saw it with my two eyes, I would not believe 
 it. Therefore, come let us go and see at the place 
 where you say it happened whether it can be true." 
 
 They went, and arrived at the place where it had 
 happened. The Jackal said: " Snake, lie down, and 
 let thyself be covered." 
 
 The Snake did so, and the White Man covered 
 her with the stone ; but although she exerted herself 
 very much, she could not rise. Then the White-Man 
 wanted again to release the Snake, but the Jackal in- 
 terfered, and said : " Do not lift the stone. She 
 wanted to bite you ; therefore she may rise by her- 
 self." 
 
 Then they both went away and left the Snake 
 under the stone. 
 
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 6. ANOTHER VERSION OF THE SAME 
 FABLE. 
 
 (From a German original Manusoript in Sir G. Grey's Library, 
 H. C. Kmidsen's " Notes on the Hottentots," p. 11.) 
 
 A Dutchman was walking by himself, and saw a 
 Snake lying under a lajfrge stone. Tne Snake implored 
 his help ; but when she had become free, she said, 
 "Now I shall eat you." 
 
 The Man answered, "That is not right. Let us 
 first go to the Hare." 
 
 When the Hare had heard the affair, he said, " It 
 is right." "No," said the Man, "let us ask the 
 Hyena." 
 
 The Hyena declared the same, saying, " It is right." 
 
 "Now let us at last ask the Jackal," said the Man 
 in his despair. 
 
 The Jackal answered very slowly and considerately, 
 doubting the whole affair, and demanding to see first 
 the place, and whether the Man was able to lift the 
 stone. The Snake lay down, and the Man, to prove 
 the truth of his account, put the stone again over her. 
 
 When she was fast, the Jackal said, " Now let her 
 lie there." 
 
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 7. CLOUD-EATING. 
 
 (The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir Or. Grey's 
 Library, G-. Kronlein's Manuscript, pp. 30, 31.) 
 
 THE HYENA. 
 
 Thou who makest thy escape from the tumult ! 
 
 Thou wide, roomy tree ! 
 
 Thou who gettest thy share (though with trouble !) 
 
 Thou cow who art strained at the hocks ! * 
 
 Thou who hast a plump round knee ! 
 
 Thou the nape of whose neck is clothed with hair ! 
 
 Thou with the skin dripping as if half -tanned ! 
 
 Thou who hast a round, distended neck ! 
 
 Thou eater of the Namaqua, 
 
 Thou big-toothed one ! 
 
 THE Jackal and the Hyena were together, it is said, 
 when a white cloud rose. The Jackal ascended upon 
 it, and ate of the cloud as if it were fat. 
 
 "When he wanted to come down, he said to the 
 Hyena, "My sister, as I am going to divide with 
 
 * " When the Hyena first starts, it appears to be lame 
 on the hind legs, or gone in the loins, as one would say of 
 a horse." — L. Layard. 
 
CLOUD-EATING. 15 
 
 thee, catch me well." So she caught him, and broke 
 his fall. Then she also went up and ate there, high 
 up on the top of the cloud. 
 
 "When she was satisfied, she said, " My greyish 
 brother, now catch me well." The greyish rogue said 
 to his friend, "My sister, I shall catch thee well. 
 Come therefore down." 
 
 He held up his hands, and she came down from the 
 cloud, and when she was near, the Jackal cried out 
 (painfully jumping to one side), " My sister, do not 
 take it ill. Oh me ! oh me ! A thorn has pricked me, 
 and sticks in me." Thus she fell down from above, 
 and was sadly hurt. 
 
 Since that day, it is said, that the Hyena's left hind 
 foot is shorter and smaller than the right one. 
 
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 8. FISH-STEALING. 
 
 (From Sir James E. Alexander's " Expedition of Discovery into the 
 Interior of Africa," vol. ii. pp. 246, 247.) 
 
 THE HYENA. 
 
 (Addressing her young ones, on her return from a 
 marauding expedition, with, regard to the perils she had 
 encountered). 
 
 The fire threatens, 
 
 The stone threatens, 
 
 The assegais threaten, 
 
 The guns threaten, 
 
 Yet you seek food from me. 
 
 My children, 
 
 Do I get anything easily P 
 
 ONCE upon a time a Jackal, who lived on the borders 
 of the colony, saw a waggon returning from the sea- 
 side laden with fish. He tried to get into the waggon 
 from behind, but he could not ; he then ran on be- 
 fore, and lay in the road as if dead. The waggon 
 came up to him, and the leader cried to the driver, 
 " Here is a fine kaross for your wife ! " 
 
FISH-STEALING. 17 
 
 " Throw it into the waggon," said the driver, and 
 the Jackal was thrown in. 
 
 The waggon travelled on through a moonlight night, 
 and all the while the Jackal was throwing the fish out 
 into the road ; he then jumped out himself, and se- 
 cured a great prize. But a stupid old Hyena coming 
 by, ate more than her share, for which the Jackal 
 owed her a grudge ; so he said to her, " You can 
 get plenty of fish, too, if you lie in the way of a wag- 
 gon as I did, and keep quite still whatever happens." 
 
 " So !" mumbled the Hyena. 
 
 Accordingly, when the next waggon came from the 
 sea, the Hyena stretched herself out in the road. 
 
 " What ugly thing is this ?" cried the leader, and 
 kicked the Hyena. He then took a stick and thrashed 
 her within an inch of her life. The Hyena, accord- 
 ing to the directions of the Jackal, lay quiet as long 
 as she could ; she then got up and hobbled off to tell 
 her misfortune to the Jackal, who pretended to com- 
 fort her. 
 
 " What a pity," said the Hyena, " that I have not 
 such a handsome skin as you !" 
 
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 9. WHICH WAS THE THIEF ? 
 
 (From Sir James E. Alexander's " Expedition of Discovery into the 
 Interior of Africa," vol. ii. p. 250.) 
 
 A JACKAL and a Hyena went and hired themselves to 
 a man to be his servants. In the middle of the night 
 the Jackal rose and smeared the Hyena's tail with some 
 fat, and then ate all the rest of it which was in 
 the house. In the morning the man missed his fat, 
 and he imm ediately accused the Jackal of having 
 eaten it. 
 
 " Look at the Hyena's tail," said the rogue, " and 
 you will see who is the thief." The man did so, and 
 then thrashed the Hyena till she was nearly dead. 
 
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 10. THE LION'S ILLNESS. 
 
 (The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir G-. G-rey's 
 Library, G-. Kronlein's Manuscript, pp. 29, 30.) 
 
 THE Lion, it is said, was ill, and they all went to see 
 him in his suffering. But the Jackal did not go, 
 because the traces of the people who went to see him 
 did not turn back. Thereupon, he was accused by 
 the Hyena, who said, " Though / go to look, yet the 
 Jackal does not want to come and look at the man's 
 sufferings." 
 
 Then the Lion let the Hyena go, in order that she 
 might catch the Jackal ; and she did so, and brought 
 him. 
 
 The Lion asked the Jackal : " Why did you not 
 come here to see me ?" The Jackal said, " Oh no ! 
 when I heard that my uncle was so very ill, I went 
 to the witch (doctor), to consult him, whether and 
 what medicine would be good for my uncle against 
 the pain. The doctor said to me, ' Go and tell your 
 uncle to take hold of the Hyena and draw off her 
 skin, and put it on while it is still warm. Then he 
 
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20 JACKAL FASLJES. 
 
 will recover.' The Hyena is one who does not care 
 for my uncle's sufferings." 
 
 The Lion followed his advice, got hold of the 
 Hyena, drew the skin over her ears, whilst she howled 
 with all her might, and put it on. 
 
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 11. THE DOVE AND THE HERON. 
 
 (The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir Gr. Grey's 
 Library, Gr. Kronlein's Manuscript, pp. 13, 14.) 
 
 THE Jackal, it is said, came once to the Dove, who 
 lived on the top of a rock, and said, " Give me one 
 of your little children." The Dove answered : " I 
 shall not do anything of the land." The Jackal said, 
 " Give it me at once ! Otherwise, I shall fly up to 
 you." Then she threw one down to him. 
 
 He came back another day, and demanded another 
 little child, and she gave it to him. After the Jackal 
 had gone, the Heron came, and asked, " Dove, why 
 do you cry ?" The dove answered him : " The 
 Jackal has taken away my little children ; it is for this 
 that I cry." He asked her, " In what manner can 
 he take them ?" She answered him : " When he 
 asked me I refused him ; but when he said, ' I shall 
 at once fly up, therefore give it me,' I threw it down 
 to him." The Heron said, " Are you such a fool as to 
 give your children to the Jackals, who cannot fly ?" 
 Then, with the admonition to give no more, he went 
 away. 
 
22 JACKAL FASLES. 
 
 The Jackal came again, and said, " Dove, give 
 me a little child." The Dove refused, and told him 
 that the Heron had told her that he could not fly up. 
 The Jackal said, "I shall catch him." 
 
 So when the Heron came to the banks of the water, 
 the Jackal asked him: "Brother Heron, when the 
 wind comes from this side, how will you stand ?" He 
 turned his neck towards him and said, "I stand 
 thus, bending my neck on one side." The Jackal 
 asked him again, " When a storm comes and when 
 it rains, how do you stand ?" He said to him : " I 
 stand thus, indeed, bending my neck down." 
 
 Then the Jackal beat him on his neck, and broke 
 his neck in the middle. 
 
 Since that day the Heron's neck is bent. 
 
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 12. THE COCK. 
 
 (The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir G. Grey's 
 Library, G-. KrBnlein's Manuscript, p. 29.) 
 
 THE Cock, it is said, was once overtaken by the 
 Jackal and caught. The Cock said to the Jackal, 
 " Please, pray first (before you kill me) as the white 
 man does." The Jackal asked, " In what manner 
 does he pray ? Tell me." " He folds his hands in 
 praying," said the Cock. The Jackal folded his 
 hands and prayed. Then the Cock spoke again : 
 " You ought not to look about you as you do. You 
 had better shut your eyes." He did so ; and the 
 Cock flew away, upbraiding at the same time the 
 Jackal with these words : " You rogue ! do you also 
 pray?" 
 
 There sat the Jackal, speechless, because he had 
 been outdone. 
 
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 13. THE LEOPARD AND THE RAM. 
 
 (Prom Sir James E. Alexander's " Expedition of Discovery into 
 the Interior of Africa," vol. ii. pp. 247, 250.) 
 
 A LEOPARD was returning home from hunting on 
 one occasion, when he lighted on the kraal of a Ram. 
 Now the Leopard had never seen a Ram before, and 
 accordingly, approaching submissively, he said, "Good 
 day, friend ! what may your name be ?" 
 
 The other, in his gruff voice, and striking his breast 
 with his forefoot, said, "I am a Ram. Who are 
 you?" 
 
 " A Leopard," answered the other, more dead than 
 alive ; and then, taking leave of the Ram, he ran 
 home as fast as he could. 
 
 A Jackal lived at the same place as the Leopard 
 did, and the latter going to him, said, " Friend Jackal, 
 I am quite out of breath, and am half dead with fright, 
 for I have just seen a terrible-looking fellow, with a 
 large and thick head, and, on my asking him what 
 his name was, he answered roughly, " I am a Ram !" 
 
 " What a foolish Leopard you are !" cried the 
 
THE LEOPARD AND TSE RAM. 25 
 
 Jackal, to let such a nice piece of flesh stand ! "Why 
 did you do so ? But we shall go to-morrow and eat 
 it together ! " 
 
 Next day the two set off for the kraal of the Ram, 
 and as they appeared over a hill, the Ram, who had 
 turned out to look about him, and was calculating 
 where he should that day crop a tender salad, saw 
 them, and he immediately went to his wife, and said, 
 " I fear this is our last day, for the Jackal and Leopard 
 are both coming against us. "What shall we do ? " 
 
 " Don't be afraid," said the wife, " but take up the 
 child in your arms ; go out with it, and pinch it to 
 make it cry as if it were hungry." The Kam did so 
 as the confederates came on. 
 
 No sooner did the Leopard cast his eyes on the 
 Ram, than fear again took possession of him, and he 
 wished to turn back. The Jackal had provided against 
 this, and made the Leopard fast to himself with a 
 leathern thong, and said, "Come on !" when the Ram 
 cried in a loud voice, and pinching his child at the 
 same time, "You have done well, friend Jackal, to 
 have brought us the Leopard to eat, for you hear 
 how my child is crying for food !" 
 
 On hearing these dreadful words, the Leopard, 
 notwithstanding the entreaties of the Jackal to let 
 him loose, set off in the greatest alarm, dragging the 
 
26 JACKAL FABLES. 
 
 Jackal after him over hill and valley, through bushes 
 and over rocks, and never stopped to look behind him 
 till he brought back himself and the half-dead Jackal 
 to his place again. And so the Ram escaped. 
 
II. 
 TORTOISE FABLES. 
 
 THE SPRINGBOK (GAZELLE). 
 
 Woe is me ! He is one who goes 
 Where his mother would not let him ! 
 Who rolls off (the rocks), 
 Rolling himself together like a hook. 
 
 14. THE ELEPHANT AND THE TORTOISE. 
 
 (The original, in the o Tyi-hererd or Damara language, is in the 
 Library of Sir G-. G-rey, J. Rath's Manuscript, pp. 27, 29.) 
 
 TWO things, the Elephant and the Rain, had a dis- 
 pute. The Elephant said, " If you say that you 
 nourish me, in what way is it that you do so ?" The 
 Rain answered, " If you say that I do not nourish you, 
 when I go away, will you not die ?" And the Rain 
 then departed. 
 
 The Elephant said, " Yulture ! cast lots to make 
 
28 TOMTOISE FABLES. 
 
 rain for me ?" The Vulture said, " I will not cast 
 lots." 
 
 Then the Elephant said to the Crow, " Cast lots !" 
 who answered, " Give the things with which I may 
 cast lots." The Crow cast lots and rain fell. It 
 rained at the lagoons, but they dried up, and only 
 one lagoon remained. 
 
 The Elephant went a-hunting. There was, however, 
 the Tortoise, to whom the Elephant said, " Tortoise, 
 remain at the water !" Thus the Tortoise was left 
 behind when the Elephant went a-hunting. 
 
 There came the Giraffe, and said to the Tortoise, 
 "Give me water !" The Tortoise answered, "The 
 water belongs to the Elephant." 
 
 There came the Zebra, who said to the Tortoise, 
 " Give me water !" The Tortoise answered, " The 
 water belongs to the Elephant." 
 
 There came the Gemsbok, and said to the Tortoise, 
 "Give me water !" The Tortoise answered, "The 
 water belongs to the Elephant." 
 
 There came the Wildebeest, and said, " Give me 
 water !" The Tortoise said, " The water belongs to 
 the Elephant." 
 
 There came the Roodebok, and said to the Tortoise, 
 " Give me water !" The Tortoise answered, " The 
 water belongs to the Elephant." 
 
THE ELEPHANT AND THE TORTOISE. 29 
 
 There came the Springbok, and said to the Tortoise, 
 " Give me water !" The Tortoise said, " The water 
 belongs to the Elephant." 
 
 There came the Jackal, and said to the Tortoise> 
 " Give me water!" The Tortoise said, " The water 
 belongs to the Elephant." 
 
 There came the Lion, and said, " Little Tortoise, 
 give me water !" When the little Tortoise was about 
 to say something, the Lion got hold of it and beat it ; 
 the Lion drank of the water, and since then the ani- 
 mals drink water. 
 
 When the Elephant came back from the hunting, 
 he said, " Little Tortoise, is there water ?" The Tor- 
 toise answered, " The animals have drunk the water." 
 The Elephant asked, " Little Tortoise, shall I chew 
 you or swallow you down ?" The little Tortoise said, 
 "Swallow me, if you please;" and the Elephant 
 swallowed it whole. 
 
 After the Elephant had swallowed the little Tor- 
 toise, and it had entered his body, it tore off his liver, 
 heart, and kidneys. The Elephant said, "Little Tor- 
 toise, you kill me." 
 
 So the Elephant died ; but the little Tortoise came 
 out of his dead body, and went wherever it liked. 
 
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 15. THE GIRAFFE AND THE TORTOISE. 
 
 (The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir G-. Grey's 
 Library, G-. Kronlein's Manuscript, p. 5.) 
 
 THE GIRAFFE. 
 
 Thou who descendest river by river, 
 Thou burnt thombush. (±<mi) ! 
 Thou blue one,* 
 
 Who appearest like a distant thornhUl 
 full of people sitting down. 
 
 THE Giraffe and the Tortoise, they say, met one day. 
 The Giraffe said to the Tortoise, " At once I could 
 trample you to death." The Tortoise, being afraid, 
 remained silent. Then the Giraffe said, "At once I 
 could swallow you." The Tortoise said, in answer to 
 this, " Well, I just belong to the family of those whom 
 it has always been customary to swallow." Then the 
 Giraffe swallowed the Tortoise ; but when the latter 
 was being gulped down, it stuck in the Giraffe's throat, 
 
 * " Because the Giraffe is said to give blue ashes when 
 burnt." — Keonlein. 
 
THE GIRAFFE AND THE TORTOISE. 31 
 
 and as the latter could not get it down, he was choked 
 to death. 
 
 When the Giraffe was dead, the Tortoise crawled 
 out and went to the Crab (who is considered as the 
 mother of the Tortoise), and told her what had hap- 
 pened. Then the Crab said — 
 
 " The little Crab ! I could sprinkle it under its 
 arm with boochoo,* 
 The crooked-legged little one, I could sprinkle 
 under its arm." 
 
 The Tortoise answered its mother and said — 
 
 " HaTe you not always sprinkled me, 
 That you want to sprinkle me now ?" 
 
 Then they went and fed for a whole year on the 
 remains of the Giraffe. 
 
 * In token of approval, according to a Hottentot custom. 
 
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 16. THE TORTOISES HUNTING THE 
 OSTRICHES. 
 
 (The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir Gr. Grey's 
 Library, Gr. Kronlein's Manuscript, p. 8.) 
 
 ONE day, it is said, the Tortoises held a council how 
 they might hunt Ostriches, and they said, " Let us, 
 on both sides, stand in rows near each other, and let 
 one go to hunt the Ostriches, so that they must flee 
 along through the midst of us." They did so, and as 
 they were many, the Ostriches were obliged to run 
 along through the midst of them. During this they 
 did not move, but, remaining always in the same 
 places, called each to the other, "Are you there?" 
 and each one answered, " I am here." The Ostriches 
 hearing this, ran so tremendously that they quite 
 exhausted their strength, and fell down. Then the 
 Tortoises assembled by-and-by at the place where 
 the Ostriches had fallen, and devoured them. 
 
III. 
 BABOON FABLES. 
 
 Heretse ! 
 
 Heretse ! 
 
 Thou thin-armed one, 
 
 Who hast thin hands ! 
 
 Thou smooth bulrush mat, 
 
 Thou whose neck is bent. 
 
 Thou who art made so as to be lifted up (upon a tree), 
 
 Who hftest thyself up. 
 
 Thou who wilt not die even behind that hill 
 
 Which is yet beyond those hills, 
 
 That lie on the other side of this far-distant hill* 
 
 17. THE JUDGMENT OF THE BABOOK 
 
 (The original, in the Hottentot langnage,.of this little Namaqua- 
 land Fable, is in Sir 6r. G-rey's Library, G-. Krbnlein's Manuscript, 
 pp. 33, 35.) 
 
 ONE day, it is said, the following story happened. 
 The Mouse had torn the clothes of Itkler (the tailor), 
 
 * With reference to the Baboon's great power of dis- 
 tancing his pursuers. 
 
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34 BABOON FABLES. 
 
 who then went to the Baboon, and accused the Mouse 
 with these words : — 
 
 " In this manner I come to thee : — The Mouse has 
 torn my clothes, but will not know anything of it, 
 and accuses the Cat; the Cat protests likewise her 
 innocence, and says the Dog, must have done it ; but 
 the Dog denies it also, and declares the Wood has 
 done it; and the "Wood throws the blame on the 
 Fire, and says, ' The Fire did it ;' the Fire says, ' 2" 
 have not, the Water did it ;' the Water says, ' The 
 Elephant tore the clothes ;' and the Elephant says, 
 ' The Ant tore them.' Thus a dispute has arisen 
 among them. Therefore I, Itkler, come to thee with 
 this proposition : Assemble the people and try them, 
 in order that I may get satisfaction." 
 
 Thus he spake, and the Baboon assembled them for 
 trial. Then they made the same excuses which had 
 been mentioned by Itkler, each one putting the blame 
 upon the other. 
 
 So the Baboon did not see any other way of punish- 
 ing them, save through making them punish each 
 other ; he therefore said — 
 
 " Mouse, give Itkler satisfaction." 
 
 The Mouse, however, pleaded not guilty. But the 
 Baboon said, " Cat, bite the Mouse." She did so. 
 
 He then put the same question to the Cat, and when 
 
THE JUDGMENT OF TSE BABOON. 35 
 
 she exculpated herself, the Baboon called to the Dog, 
 " Here, bite the Cat." 
 
 In this manner the Baboon questioned them all, one 
 after the other, but they each denied the charge. Then 
 he addressed the following words to them, and said — 
 "Wood, beat the Dog. 
 Fire, burn the Wood. 
 Water, quench the Fire. 
 Elephant, drink the Water. 
 Ant, bite the Elephant in his most tender parts." 
 They did so, and since that day they cannot any 
 longer agree with each other. 
 
 The Ant enters into the Elephant's most tender 
 parts, and bites him. 
 
 The Elephant swallows the Water. 
 The Water quenches the Fire. 
 The Fire consumes the Wood. 
 The Wood beats the Dog. 
 The Dog bites the Cat. 
 And the Cat the Mouse. 
 Through this judgment Itkler got satisfaction, and 
 addressed the Baboon in the following manner : — 
 " Yes ! Now I am content, since I have received 
 satisfaction, and with all my heart I thank thee, 
 Baboon, because thou hast exercised justice on my 
 behalf, and given me redress." 
 
 d 2 
 
36 BABOON FABLES. 
 
 Then the Baboon said, " From to-day I will not 
 any longer be called Jan, but Baboon shall be my 
 name." 
 
 Since that time, the Baboon walks on all fours, 
 having probably lost tbe privilege of walking erect 
 through this foolish judgment. (?) 
 
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 18. THE LION AND THE BABOON. 
 
 (The original, in the Hottentot language, ia in Sir Or. Grey's 
 Library, Gr. Kronlein'a Manuscript, pp. 14, 15.) 
 
 THE BABOON. 
 
 Thou hollow-cheeked son 
 
 Of a hollow-cheeked one, 
 
 My hollow-cheeked one ! 
 
 Who hast two hip-bones, 
 
 High hip-bones, 
 With which thou sittest on the edge of the rock, 
 Thou whose face appears like the edge of a rock. 
 
 THE Baboon, it is said, once worked bamboos, sitting 
 on the edge of a precipice, and the Lion stole upon 
 him. The Baboon, however, had fixed some round, 
 glistening, eye-like plates on the back of his head. 
 When, therefore, the Lion crept upon him, he 
 thought, when the Baboon was looking at him, that 
 he sat with his back towards him, and crept with all 
 his might upon him. When, however, the Baboon 
 turned his back towards him, the Lion thought that 
 he was seen, and hid himself. Thus, when the 
 
38 BABOON FABLES. 
 
 Baboon looked at him, he crept upon him. Whilst 
 the Baboon did this, the Lion came close upon him. 
 When he was near him the Baboon looked up, and 
 the Lion continued to creep upon him. The Baboon 
 said (aside), " Whilst I am looking at him he steals 
 upon me, whilst my hollow eyes are on him." 
 
 When at last the Lion sprung at him, he lay 
 (quickly) down upon his face, and the Lion jumped 
 over him, falling down the precipice, and was dashed 
 to pieces. 
 
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 19. THE ZEBRA STALLION. 
 
 (The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir Or. G-rey's 
 Library, Gr. Kronlein's Manuscript, p. 17.) 
 
 THE ZEBRA. 
 
 Thou who art thrown at by the great (shepherd) boys, 
 Thou whose head the (kirrie's) throw misses ! 
 
 Thou dappled fly, 
 
 Thou party-coloured one, 
 
 Who spiest for those, 
 
 That spy for thee ! 
 
 Thou who, womanlike, 
 
 Art full of jealousy. 
 
 THE Baboons, it is said, used to disturb the Zebra 
 Mares in drinking. But one of the Mares became 
 the mother of a foal. The others then helped her 
 to suckle (the young stallion), that he might soon 
 grow up. 
 
 When he was grown up, and they were in want of 
 water, they brought him to the water. The Baboons, 
 
40 BABOON FABLJES. 
 
 seeing this, came, as they formerly were used to do, 
 into their way, and kept them from the water. 
 
 While the Mares stood thus, the Stallion stepped 
 forward, and spoke to one of the Baboons, " Thou 
 gum-eater's child !" 
 
 The Baboon said to the Stallion, " Please open thy 
 mouth, that I may see what thou livest on." The 
 Stallion opened his mouth, and it was milky. 
 
 Then the Stallion said to the Baboon, " Please open 
 thy mouth also, that I may see." The Baboon did 
 so, and there was some gum in it. But the Baboon 
 quickly licked some milk off the Stallion's tongue. 
 The Stallion on this became angry, took the Baboon 
 by his shoulders, and pressed him upon a hot, flat rock. 
 Since that day the Baboon has a bald place on his 
 back. 
 
 The Baboon said, lamenting, "I, my mother's child, 
 I, the gum-eater, am outdone by this milk-eater !" 
 
 THE ZEBRA. 
 
 Thou I J art shrub (i. e., tough shrub, Dutch, 
 
 " critdorn "), 
 Thou who art of strong smell, 
 Thou who rollest always in soft ground, 
 "Whose body retains the dust, 
 
TSJE ZEBRA STALLION. 41 
 
 Thou split kirrie of the shepherd boys, 
 
 Thou split knob of a kirrie. 
 
 Thou who drivest away by thy neighing 
 
 The hunter who seeketh thee. 
 
 Thou who crossest all rivers 
 
 As if they were but one. 
 
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 20. THE LOST CHILD.— [A Tale. J 
 
 (From Sir James E. Alexander's " Expedition of Discovery into 
 the Interior of Africa," vol. ii. pp. 234, 235.) 
 
 THE children belonging to a kraal were playing at 
 some little distance from the huts with bows and 
 arrows ; in the evening they all returned home, save 
 one, a boy of five or six years old, who lingered be- 
 hind, and was soon surrounded by a troop of baboons, 
 who carried him up a mountain. 
 
 The people turned out to recover the boy, and for 
 days they hunted after bi'm in vain ; he was nowhere 
 to be seen ; the baboons also had left the neighbour- 
 hood. 
 
 A year after this had occurred, a mounted hunter 
 came to the kraal from a distance, and told the people 
 that he had crossed at such a place the spoor of 
 baboons, along with the footmarks of a child. The 
 people went to the place which the hunter had indi- 
 cated, and they soon saw what they were in search 
 of, viz., the boy, sitting on a pinnacle of rock, in com- 
 pany with a large baboon. The moment the people 
 
TEE LOST CEILD. 43 
 
 approached, the baboon took up the boy, and scam- 
 pered off with him ; but, after a close pursuit, the boy 
 was recovered. He seemed quite wild, and tried to 
 run away to the baboons again ; however, he was 
 brought back to the kraal, and when he recovered his 
 speech, he said that the baboons had been very kind 
 to him ; that they ate scorpions and spiders them- 
 selves, but brought him roots, gum, and wild raisins, 
 seeing that he did not touch the two first-named deli- 
 cacies, and that they always allowed him to drink first 
 at the waters. 
 
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 21. THE BABOON SHEPHERD.— [A Tale.] 
 
 (From Sir James B. Alexander's " Expedition of Discovery into 
 the Interior of Africa," vol. ii. pp. 229, 230.) 
 
 THE Namaquas say that, not long ago, a man had 
 brought up a young Baboon, and had made it his 
 shepherd. It remained by the flock all day in the 
 field, and at night drove them home to the kraal, 
 riding on the back of one of the goats, which brought 
 up the rear. The Baboon had the milk of one goat 
 allowed to it, and it sucked that one only, and guarded 
 the milk of the others from the children. It also got 
 a little meat from its master. It held the office of 
 shepherd for twelve moons, and then was unfortu- 
 nately killed in a tree by a Leopard. 
 
IV. 
 LION FABLES. 
 
 22. THE FLYING LION. 
 
 (The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir G-. G-rey's 
 Library, Or. Kronlein'a Manuscript, pp. 3, 4.) 
 
 THE Lion, it is said, used once to fly, and at that 
 time nothing could live before him. As he was un- 
 willing that the bones of what he caught should be 
 broken into pieces, he made a pair of White Crows 
 watch the bones, leaving them behind at the kraal 
 whilst he went a-hunting. But one day the great 
 Frog came there, broke the bones in pieces, and said, 
 "Why can men and animals live no longer ?" And 
 he added these words, " When he comes, tell him that 
 I live at yonder pool ; if he wishes to see me, he must 
 come there." 
 
 The Lion, lying in wait (for game), wanted to fly 
 up, but found he could not fly. Then he got angry, 
 
46 LION FABLES. 
 
 thinking that at the kraal something was wrong, and 
 returned home. When he arrived, he asked, " What 
 have you done that I cannot fly ?" Then they an- 
 swered and said, "Some one came here, broke the 
 bones into pieces, and said, ' If he wants me, he may 
 look for me at yonder pool !' " The Lion went, and 
 arrived while the Frog was sitting at the water's edge, 
 and he tried to creep stealthily upon him. When he 
 was about to get hold of him, the Frog said, " Ho !" 
 and, diving, went to the other side of the pool, and 
 sat there. The Lion pursued him ; but as he could 
 not catch him he returned home. 
 
 From that day, it is said, the Lion walked on his 
 feet, and also began to creep upon (his game) ; and 
 the White Crows became entirely dumb since the day 
 that they said, " Nothing can be said of that matter." 
 
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 23. THE LION WHO THOUGHT HIMSELF 
 WISER THAN HIS MOTHER. 
 
 (The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir G-. Grey's 
 Library, Q-. KrSnlein's Manuscript, pp. 31, 33.) 
 
 It is said that when the Lion and jgurikhoisip* (the 
 Only man), together with the Baboon, the Buffalo, 
 and other friends, were playing one day at a certain 
 game, there was a thunderstorm and rain at ±uro- 
 xaams.f The Lion and /gurikhoisip began to 
 quarrel. "I shall run to the rain-field," said the Lion. 
 /Gurikhoisip said also, " I shall run to the rain-field." 
 As neither would concede this to the other, they 
 separated (angrily). After they had parted, the 
 Lion went to tell his Mother those things which they 
 had both said. 
 
 * The / is the dental click, which is " sounded by pressing 
 the tip of the tongue against the front teeth of the upper 
 jaw, and then suddenly and forcibly withdrawing it." — 
 
 TlNDALL. 
 
 f The =j= is the palatal crick, described in note to Fable 24, 
 p. 55, and x is the German cli. 
 
48 LION FABLES. 
 
 His Mother said to him, " My Father ! that Man 
 whose head is in a line with his shoulders and breast, 
 who has pinching weapons, who keeps white dogs, 
 who goes about wearing the tuft of a tiger's tail, be- 
 ware of him !" The Lion, however, said, "Why need 
 I be on my guard against those whom I know ?" The 
 Lioness answered, " My Son, take care of him who 
 has pinching weapons !" But the Lion would not 
 follow his Mother's advice, and the same morning, 
 when it was still pitch dark, he went to ±aroxaams, 
 and laid himself in ambush. /Gurikhoisip went also 
 that morning to the same place. When he had arrived 
 he let his dogs drink, and then bathe. After they 
 had finished they wallowed. Then also the man 
 drank ; and, when he had done drinking, the Lion 
 came out of the bush. The dogs surrounded him, as 
 his mother had foretold, and he was speared by 
 I gurikhoisip. Just as he became aware that he was 
 speared, the dogs drew him down again. In this 
 manner he grew faint. While he was in this state, 
 I gurikhoisip said to the dogs, " Let him alone now, 
 that he may go and be taught by his Mother." So 
 the dogs let him go. They left him, and went home 
 as he lay there. The same night he walked towards 
 home, but whilst he was on the way his strength 
 failed him, and he lamented : 
 
THE LION AND HIS MOTHER. 49 
 
 " Mother ! take me up ! 
 Grandmother ! take me up ! Oh me ! Alas !" 
 At the dawn of day his Mother heard his wailing, 
 and said — 
 
 " My Son, this is the thing which I have told 
 thee : — 
 
 Beware of the one who has pinching weapons, 
 
 Who wears a tuft of tiger's tail, 
 
 Of him who has white dogs ! 
 
 Alas ! Thou son of her who is short-eared, 
 
 Thou, my short-eared child ! 
 
 Son of her who eats raw flesh, 
 
 Thou flesh-devourer ; 
 
 Son of her whose nostrils are red from the 
 
 prey- 
 Thou with blood-stained nostrils ! 
 
 Son of her who drinks pit- water, 
 
 Thou water-drinker !" 
 
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 24. THE LION WHO TOOK A WOMAN'S 
 SHAPE. 
 
 (The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir Or. Grey's 
 Library, G-. Kronlein's Manuscript, pp. 60, 65.) 
 
 SOME women, it is said, went out to seek roots and 
 herbs and other wild food. On their way home they 
 sat down and said, "Let us taste the food of the field." 
 Now they found that the food picked by one of them 
 was sweet, while that of the others was bitter. The latter 
 said to each other, " Look here ! this woman's herbs 
 are sweet." Then they said to the owner of the sweet 
 food, " Throw it away and seek for other " — (sweet- 
 tasted herbs being apparently unpalatable to the Hot- 
 tentot). So she threw away the food, and went to 
 gather more. When she had collected a sufficient 
 supply, she returned to join the other women, but 
 could not find them. She went therefore down to the 
 river, where the Hare sat lading water, and said to 
 him, " Hare, give me some water that I may drink." 
 But he replied, " This is the cup out of which my 
 uncle (the Lion) and I alone may drink." 
 
 She asked again : " Hare, draw water for me that 
 
THE LION WHO TOOK A WOMAN'S SHAPE. 51 
 
 I may drink." But the Hare made the same reply. 
 Then she snatched the cup from him and drank, but 
 he ran home to tell his uncle of the outrage which 
 had been committed. 
 
 The Woman meanwhile replaced the cup and went 
 away. After she had departed the Lion came down, 
 and, seeing her in the distance, pursued her on the 
 road. When she turned round and saw him coming, 
 she sang in the following manner : — 
 
 " My mother, she would not let me seek herbs, 
 Herbs of the field, food from the field. Hoo !" 
 
 When the Lion at last came up with the Woman, 
 they hunted each other round a shrub. She wore 
 many beads and arm-rings, and the Lion said, " Let 
 me put them on !" So she -lent them to him, but he 
 afterwards refused to return them to her. 
 
 They then hunted each other again round the shrub, 
 till the Lion fell down, and the Woman jumped upon 
 him, and kept him there. The Lion (uttering a form 
 of conjuration) said : 
 
 " My Aunt ! it is morning, and time to rise; 
 Pray, rise from me ! " 
 
 She then rose from him, and they hunted again after 
 each other round the shrub, till the Woman fell down, 
 
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52 LION FABLES. 
 
 and the Lion jumped upon her. She then addressed 
 him : 
 
 " My Uncle ! it is morning, and time to rise ; 
 Pray, rise from me!" 
 
 He rose, of course, and they hunted each other again, 
 till the Lion fell a second time. When she jumped 
 upon him, he said : 
 
 " My Aunt ! it is morning, and time to rise ; 
 Pray, rise from me ! " 
 
 They rose again and hunted after each other. The 
 Woman at last fell down. But this time, when she 
 repeated the above conjuration, the Lion said : 
 
 " He Kha ! Is it morning, and time to rise ?" 
 
 He then ate her, talcing care, however, to leave her 
 skin whole, which he put on, together with her dress 
 and ornaments, so that he looked quite like a woman, 
 and then went home to her kraal. 
 
 When this counterfeit woman arrived, her little 
 sister, crying, said, " My sister, pour some milk out 
 for me." She answered, " I shall not pour you out 
 any." Then the child addressed their Mother: 
 " Mama, do pour out some for me." The Mother of 
 the kraal said, " Go to your sister, and let her give 
 
TSJE LION WHO TOOK A WOMAN'S SHAPE. 53 
 
 it to you !" The little child said again to her sister, 
 " Please, pour out for me !" She, however, repeated 
 her refusal, saying, " I will not do it." Then the 
 Mother of the kraal said to the little one, " I refused 
 to let her (the elder sister) seek herhs in the field, and 
 I do not know what may have happened ; go there- 
 fore to the Hare, and ask him to pour out for you." 
 
 So the Hare gave her some milk ; but her elder 
 sister said, " Come and share it with me." The little 
 child then went to her sister with her bamboo (cup), 
 and they both sucked the milk out of it. Whilst 
 they were doing this, some milk was spilt on the little 
 one's hand, and the elder sister licked it up with her 
 tongue, the roughness of which drew blood ; this, too, 
 the Woman licked up. 
 
 The little child complained to her Mother : "Mama, 
 sister pricks holes in me, and sucks the blood." The 
 Mother said, "With what lion's nature your sister 
 went the way that I forbade her, and returned, I do 
 not know." 
 
 Now the cows arrived, and the elder sister cleansed 
 the pails in order to milk them. But when she ap- 
 proached the cows with a thong (in order to tie their 
 fore-legs), they all refused to be milked by her. 
 
 The Hare said, " Why do not you stand before the 
 cow?" She replied, "Hare, call your brother, and 
 
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 LION FABLES. 
 
 do you two stand before the cow." Her husband said, 
 " What has come over her that the cows refuse her ? 
 These are the same cows she always milks." The 
 Mother (of the kraal) said, " What has happened this 
 evening ? These are cows which she always milks 
 without assistance. What can have affected her that 
 she comes home as a woman with a lion's nature ?" 
 
 The elder daughter then said to her Mother, " I 
 shall not milk the cows." With those words she sat 
 down. The Mother said therefore to the Hare, 
 " Bring me the bamboos, that I may milk. I do not 
 know what has come over the girl." 
 
 So the Mother herself milked the cows, and when 
 she had done so, the Hare brought the bamboos to the 
 young wife's house, where her husband was, but she 
 (the wife) did not give him (her husband) anything 
 to eat. But when at night time she fell asleep, they 
 saw some of the Lion's hair, which was hanging out 
 where he had slipped on the woman's skin, and they 
 cried, " Verily ! this is quite another being. It is for 
 this reason that the cows refused to be milked." 
 
 Then the people of the kraal began to break up 
 the hut in which the Lion lay asleep. When 
 they took off the mats, they said (conjuring them), 
 " If thou art favourably inclined to me, mat, give 
 the sound ' sawa ' " (meaning, making no noise). 
 
TKE LION WHO TOOK A WOMAN'S SHAPE. 55 
 
 To the poles (on which the hut rested) they said, 
 " If thou art favourably inclined to me, pole, thou 
 must give the sound ±gara."* 
 
 They addressed also the bamboos and the bed-skins 
 in a similar manner. 
 
 Thus gradually and noiselessly they removed the hut 
 and all its contents. Then they took bunches of grass, 
 put them over the Lion, and lighting them, said, " If 
 thou art favourably inclined to me, fire, thou must 
 flare up, ' boo boo,' before thou comest to the heart." 
 
 So the fire flared up when it came towards the 
 heart, and the heart of the Woman jumped upon the 
 ground. The Mother (of the kraal) picked it up, and 
 put it into a calabash. 
 
 The Lion, from his place in the fire, said to the 
 Mother (of the kraal), "How nicely I have eaten 
 your daughter." The Woman answered, " You have 
 also now a comfortable place !" * * * 
 
 Now the Woman took the first milk of as many 
 cows as calved, and put it into the calabash where her 
 daughter's heart was ; the calabash increased in size, 
 and in proportion to this the girl grew again inside it. 
 
 * ± Indicates the palatal click, which is sounded by 
 pressing the tip of the tongue, with as flat a surface as 
 possible, against the termination of the palate at the gums, 
 and withdrawing it suddenly and forcibly. 
 
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 LION FABLES. 
 
 One day, when the Mother (of the kraal) went out 
 to fetch wood, she said to the Hare, " By the time 
 that I come back you must have everything nice and 
 clean." But during her Mother's absence, the girl 
 crept out of the calabash, and put the hut in good 
 order, as she had been used to do in former days, and 
 said to the Hare, "When mother comes back and 
 asks, ' Who has done these things ?' you must say, ' I, 
 the Hare, did them.' " After she had done all, she 
 hid herself on the stage.* 
 
 When the Mother (of the kraal) came home, she 
 said, " Hare, who has done these things ? They look 
 just as they used when my daughter did them." The 
 Hare said, "I did the things." But the Mother 
 would not believe it, and looked at the calabash. 
 Seeing it was empty, she searched the stage and found 
 her daughter. Then she embraced and kissed her, 
 and from that day the girl stayed with her mother, 
 and did everything as she was wont in former times ; 
 but she now remained unmarried. 
 
 * The stage is that apparatus in the background of the 
 hut (built of mats) opposite the door, upon which the 
 Hottentots hang their bamboos, bags of skins, and other 
 things, and under which the women generally keep their 
 mats. 
 
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 25. A WOMAN TRANSFORMED INTO A LION. 
 
 [A Tale.] 
 
 (From Sir James E. Alexander's " Expedition of Discovery into 
 the Interior of Africa," vol. ii. pp. 197, 198.) 
 
 ONCE upon a time a certain Hottentot was travelling 
 in company with a Bushwoman, carrying a child on 
 her back. They had proceeded some distance on their 
 journey, when a troop of wild horses appeared, and the 
 Man said to the "Woman, " I am hungry ; and as I 
 know you can turn yourself into a Lion, do so now, 
 and catch us a wild horse, that we may eat." 
 
 The Woman answered, " You will be afraid." 
 
 " No, no," said the Man ; "I am afraid of dying of 
 hunger, but not of you." 
 
 Whilst he was yet speaking, hair began to appear 
 at the back of the Woman's neck ; her nails gradually 
 assumed the appearance of claws, and her features 
 altered. She sat down the child. 
 
 The Man, alarmed at the change, climbed a tree 
 close by. The Woman glared at him fearfully, and 
 going to one side, she threw off her skin petticoat, when 
 
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 a perfect Lion rushed into the plain. It bounded and 
 crept among the bushes towards the wild horses, and 
 springing on one of them, it fell, and the Lion lapped 
 its blood. The Lion then came back to where the 
 child was crying, and the man called from the tree, 
 " Enough, enough ! don't hurt me. Put off your lion's 
 shape, I'll never ask to see this again." 
 
 , The Lion looked at him and growled. " I'll remain 
 here till I die," said the Man, " if you don't become 
 a woman again." The mane and tail then began to 
 disappear, the Lion went towards the bush where the 
 skin petticoat lay; it was slipped on, and the woman, 
 in her proper shape, took up the child. The Man 
 descended and partook of the horse's flesh, but never 
 again asked the "Woman to catch game for him. 
 
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 26. THE LION AND THE BUSHMAN. 
 
 [A Taie.J 
 
 (From Sir James E. Alexander's "Expedition of Discovery into 
 the Interior of Africa," vol. ii. p. 51.) 
 
 A BUSHMAN was, on one occasion, following a troop 
 of zebras, and had just succeeded in wounding one 
 with his arrows, when a Lion sprang out from a 
 thicket opposite, and showed every inclination to dis- 
 pute the prize with him. The Bushman being near 
 a convenient tree, threw down his arms, and climbed 
 for safety to an upper branch. The Lion, allowing 
 the wounded zebra to pass on, now turned his whole 
 attention towards the Bushman, and walking round 
 and round the tree, he ever and anon growled and 
 looked up at him. At length the Lion lay down at 
 the foot of the tree, and kept watch all night. To- 
 wards morning sleep overcame the hitherto wakeful 
 Bushman, and he dreamt that he had fallen into the 
 Lion's mouth. Starting from the effects of his dream, 
 he lost his hold, and, falling from the branch, he 
 
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 alighted heavily on the Lion ; on which the monster, 
 thus unexpectedly saluted, ran off with a loud roar, 
 and the Bushman, also taking to his heels in a dif- 
 ferent direction, escaped in safety. 
 
V. 
 VARIOUS FABLES. 
 
 THE ELEPHANT. 
 
 Thou tall acacia full of branches, 
 
 Thou ebony tree with leaves spread round about. 
 
 27. HOW A NAMA WOMAN OUTWITTED 
 THE ELEPHANTS. 
 
 (The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir Gr. Gfrey's 
 Library, Gr. Kronlein's Manuscript, pp. 1, 3.) 
 
 AN Elephant, it is said, was married to a Nama Hot- 
 tentot woman, whose two brothers came to her secretly, 
 because they were afraid of her husband. Then she 
 went out as if to fetch wood, and putting them within 
 the wood, she laid them on the stage.* Then she said, 
 " Since I married into this kraal, has a wether been 
 slaughtered also for me?" And her blind mother - 
 
 * Vide Note to Fable 24, p. 56. 
 
62 VARIOUS FASLHS. 
 
 in-law answered, "Umph! things are said by the 
 wife of my eldest son, which she never said before." 
 
 Thereupon the Elephant, who had been in the field, 
 arrived, and smelling something, rubbed against the 
 house. "Ha," said his wife, "what I should not have 
 done formerly, I do now. On what day did you 
 slaughter a wether for me?" Then the mother-in- 
 law said to him : "As she says things which she did 
 not say (before), do it now." 
 
 In this manner a wether was slaughtered (for her), 
 which she roasted whole, and then, in the same night 
 (after supper), asked her mother-in-law the following 
 questions: — "How do you breathe when you sleep 
 the sleep of life ? (light sleep, half-conscious.) And 
 how when you sleep the sleep of death ?" (deep sleep.) 
 
 Then the mother-in-law said, " Umph, an evening 
 full of conversation ! When we sleep the sleep of 
 death, we breathe thus : ' sui sui !' and when we sleep 
 the sleep of life we breathe thus : ' Xou Idwaba ! Xou 
 Idwaba!'"* 
 
 Thus the wife made everything right whilst they 
 fell asleep. Then she listened to their snoring, and 
 
 * X is the German ch, and / the cerebral click of the 
 Hottentot language, which is " sounded by sending up the 
 tip of the tongue against the roof of the palate, and with- 
 drawing it forcibly and suddenly." — Tindall. 
 
THE NAMA WOMAN AND THE ELEPHANTS. 63 
 
 when they slept thus, sui mi, she rose and said to her 
 two brothers, "The sleep of death is over them, let 
 us make ready." They rose and went out, and she 
 broke up the hut* (to carry away all that she could), 
 and took the necessary things, and said, " That thing 
 which makes any noise wills my death." So they 
 kept altogether quiet. 
 
 When her two brothers had packed up, she went 
 with them between the cattle, but she left at home 
 one cow, one ewe, and one goat, and directed them, 
 saying to the cow, " You must not low as if you were 
 by yourself alone, if you do not wish for my death ;" 
 and she taught the ewe and the goat the same. 
 
 Then they departed with all the other cattle, and 
 those who were left behind lowed during the night as 
 if they were many, and as they lowed as if they were 
 still all there, the Elephant thought, " They are all 
 there." But when he rose in the morning, he saw 
 that his wife and all the cattle were gone. Taking 
 his stick into his hands, he said to his mother, " If I 
 fall the earth will tremble." "With these words he 
 followed them. When they saw him approaching, 
 they ran fast to the side, against a piece of rock (at a 
 
 * Hottentot huts being merely made of skins stretched 
 over a frame, are carried about by the people in their 
 wanderings. 
 
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 narrow spot), and she said, " We are people, behind 
 whom a large (travelling) party comes. Stone of my 
 ancestors! divide thyself' for us." Then the rock 
 divided itself, and when they had passed through it, 
 it closed again (behind them.) . 
 
 Then came the Elephant, and said to the rock, 
 " Stone of my ancestors ! divide thyself also for me." 
 The rock divided itself again, but when he had 
 entered, it closed upon him. Thus died the Elephant, 
 and the earth trembled. The mother at her hut said 
 then, " As my eldest son said, it has happened. The 
 earth shakes." 
 
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 28. A BAD SISTER. 
 
 (The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir G. Grey's 
 Library, G-. Kronlein's Manuscript, pp. 15, 16.) 
 
 COPPER and "Weather, it is said, were man and wife, 
 and begat a daughter, who married amongst other 
 people. 
 
 Her three brothers came to visit her ; and she did 
 not know them (as such), though the people said, "Do 
 not you see they are your brothers ?" She deter- 
 mined to kill them at night. They had, however, a 
 Guinea-fowl to watch them. 
 
 When the Copper- Weather relative crept near, in 
 order to kill the men, the Guinea-fowl made a noise 
 to put them on their guard. They were thus warned 
 of the danger ; but afterwards they fell asleep again. 
 Then she stole again upon them. The Guinea-fowl 
 made a noise, but broke the rope by which it had 
 been fastened, and ran home. She then killed her 
 brothers. When the Guinea-fowl came near home 
 it wept : — 
 
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 " The Copper-Weather relative has killed her 
 brothers ! 
 Alas ! she has killed her brothers !" 
 
 The wife heard it, and said to her husband — 
 
 " Do not you hear what the bird weeps for ? 
 You who sit here upon the ground working 
 bamboos." 
 
 The man said, " Come and turn yourself into a 
 mighty thunderstorm, and I will be a strong wind." 
 
 So they transformed themselves accordingly, and 
 when they came near to the kraal (where their sons 
 had been killed), they combined and became a fire, 
 and as a fiery rain they burnt the kraal and all its 
 inhabitants. 
 
VI. 
 SUN AND MOON FABLES. 
 
 29. WHY HAS THE JACKAL A LONG 
 BLACK STRIPE ON HIS BACK? 
 
 (The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir GL Grey's 
 Library, Or. Rronlein's Manuscript, p. 16.) 
 
 THE Sun, it is said, was one day on earth, and the 
 men who were travelling saw him sitting by the way- 
 side, but passed him without notice. The Jackal, 
 however, who came after them, and saw him also 
 sitting, went to him and said, " Such a fine little 
 child is left behind by the men." He then took the 
 Sun up, and put it into his awa-skin (on his back). 
 When it burnt him, he said, " Get down," and shook 
 himself ; but the Sun stuck fast to his back, and burnt 
 the Jackal's back black from that day. 
 
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 30. THE HORSE CURSED BY THE SUN. 
 
 (The original, in the Hottentot language, of this little Nama- 
 qualand Fable, is in Sir Or. Grrey's Library, G-. Kronlein's 
 Manuscript, p. 53.) 
 
 IT is said that once the Sun was on earth, and caught 
 the Horse to ride it. But it was unable to hear his 
 weight, and therefore the Ox took the place of the 
 Horse, and carried the Sun on its back. Since that 
 time the Horse is cursed in these words, because it 
 could not carry the Sun's weight : — 
 
 " From to-day thou shalt have a (certain) time of 
 
 dying. 
 This is thy curse, that thou hast a (certain) time of 
 
 dying. 
 And day and night shalt thou eat, 
 But the desire of thy heart shall not be at rest, 
 Though thou grazest till morning and again until 
 
 sunset. 
 Behold, this is the judgment which I pass upon thee," 
 
 said the Sun. 
 
 Since that day the Horse's (certain) time of dying 
 commenced. 
 
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 31. THE ORIGIN OF DEATH. 
 
 (The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir Gt. Grey's 
 Library, Gr. KrSnlein's Manuscript, pp. 33, 34.) 
 
 THE Moon, it is said, sent once an Insect to Men, 
 saying, " Go thou to Men, and tell them, ' As I die, 
 and dying live, so ye shall also die, and dying live.' " 
 The Insect started with the message, but whilst on 
 his way was overtaken by the Hare, who asked : 
 " On what errand art thou bound ?" The Insect 
 answered : "I am sent by the Moon to Men, to 
 tell them that as she dies, and dying lives, they 
 also shall die, and dying live." The Hare said, 
 "As thou art an awkward runner, let me go" (to 
 take the message). "With these words he ran off, 
 and when he reached Men, he said, " I am sent by 
 the Moon to tell you, ' As I die, and dying perish, in 
 the same manner ye shall also die and come wholly 
 to an end.' " Then the Hare returned to the Moon, 
 and told her what he had said to Men. The Moon 
 reproached him angrily, saying, "Darest thou tell 
 
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 SUN AND MOON FABLES. 
 
 the people a thing which I have not said ?" With 
 these words she took up a piece of wood, and struck 
 him on the nose. Since that day the Hare's nose is 
 slit. 
 
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 32. ANOTHER VERSION OF THE SAME 
 FABLE. 
 
 (From H. C. Knudsen's " G-ross-Namaqualand," 12mo., Barmen, 
 1848, pp. 27, 28.) 
 
 THE Moon dies, and rises to life again. The Moon 
 said to the Hare, " Go thou to Men, and tell them, 
 ' Like as I die and rise to life again, so you also shall 
 die and rise to life again.' " The Hare went to the 
 Men, and said, " Like as I die and do not rise to life 
 agairj, so you shall also die, and not rise to life again.' 
 When he returned, the Moon asked him, " What 
 hast thou said ?" " I have told them, ' Like as I die 
 and do not rise to life again, so you shall also die and 
 not rise to life again.' " " What," said the Moon, 
 " hast thou said that?" And she took a stick and 
 beat the Hare on his mouth, which was slit by the 
 blow. The Hare fled, and is still fleeing."* 
 
 * "We are now angry -with, the Hare," say the old 
 Namaqua, "because he brought such a bad message, and 
 therefore we dislike to eat his flesh." — Knttdsen. 
 
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 33. A THIRD VERSION OF THE SAME 
 FABLE. 
 
 (From an original Manuscript in English, by Mr. John Priestley, 
 in Sir G-. Grey's Library.) 
 
 THE Moon, on one occasion, sent the Hare to the earth 
 to inform Men that as she (the Moon) died away and 
 rose again, so mankind should die and rise again. 
 Instead, however, of delivering this message as given, 
 the Hare, either out of forgetfulness or malice, told 
 mankind that as the Moon rose and died away, so 
 Man should die and rise no more. The Hare, having 
 returned to the Moon, was questioned as to the 
 message delivered, and the Moon, having heard the 
 true state of the case, became so enraged with him 
 that she took up a hatchet to split his head ; falling 
 short, however, of that, the hatchet fell upon the 
 upper lip of the Hare, and cut it severely. Hence it 
 is that we see the " Hare-lip." The Hare, being duly 
 incensed at having received such treatment, raised his 
 claws, and scratched the Moon's face ; and the dark 
 parts which we now see on the surface of the Moon 
 are the scars which she received on that occasion. 
 
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 34. A FOURTH VERSION OF THE SAME 
 FABLE. 
 
 (From Sir James E. Alexander's " Expedition of DiscoTery into 
 the Interior of Africa," vol. i. p. 169.) 
 
 THE Moon, they say, wished to send a message to 
 Men, and the Hare said that he would take it. " Run, 
 then," said the Moon, " and tell Men that as I die 
 and am renewed, so shall they also be renewed." 
 But the Hare deceived Men, and said, " As I die and 
 perish, so shall you also."* 
 
 * Old Namaqtias will not therefore touch Hare's flesh; 
 but the young men may partake of it ; that is, before the 
 ceremony of making them men is performed, which merely 
 consists in slaughtering and eating an ox or a couple of 
 sheep. — Albxandeb. 
 
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 35. A ZULU VERSION OF THE LEGEND 
 OF THE "ORIGIN OF DEATH." 
 
 (From Manuscript, "Zulu Legends," No. 214 of Sir G-. Grey's 
 Library, vol. i. part i. p. 107.) 
 
 GOD ( UnTcnlunkuln) arose from beneath (the seat of the 
 spiritual world, according to the Zulu idea), and created 
 in the beginning* men, animals, and all things. He 
 then sent for the Chameleon, and said, " Go, Chame- 
 leon, and tell Men that they shall not die." The 
 Chameleon went, but it walked slowly, and loitered 
 on the way, eating of a shrub called Bukwebezane. 
 
 When it had been away some time, God sent the 
 Salamander after it, ordering him to make haste and 
 tell Men that they should die. The Salamander went 
 on his way with this message, outran the Chameleon, 
 and, arriving first where the Men were, told them that 
 they must die. 
 
 * Ohlangeni. Vide Colenso's " Zulu-English Dictionary," 
 p. 179. 
 
VII. 
 HEITSI EIBIP 
 
 AND OTHER LEGENDS. 
 
 36. HEITSI EIBIP. 
 
 (From a German original Manuscript in Sir Or. Grey's Library, 
 H. C. Knudsen's " Notes on the Hottentots," p. 7.) 
 
 HEITSI EIBIP, or Kabip, was a great and celebrated 
 sorcerer among the Namaqua. He could tell secret 
 things, and prophesy what was to happen afterwards. 
 Once he was travelling with a great number of 
 people, and an enemy pursued them. On arriving 
 at some water he said, "My grandfather's father, 
 open thyself that I may pass through, and close thy- 
 self afterwards." So it took place as he had said, and 
 they went safely through. Then their enemies tried 
 to pass through the opening also, but when they were 
 in the midst of it, it closed again upon them, and they 
 perished* 
 
 * Knudsen, who heard this legend from the Hottentot 
 Petrus Friedrii, was afterwards informed that Meitsi Eihip 
 
< b HEITSI EIBIP AND OTBEB LEGENDS. 
 
 Heitsi Kabip died several times, and came to life 
 again. When the Hottentots pass one of his graves 
 they throw a stone on it for good luck.* 
 
 Heitsi Eibip could take many different forms. 
 Sometimes he appeared handsome, very handsome, 
 or his hair grew long down to his shoulders ; at other 
 times it was again short. 
 
 was not tie person meant in this tale. It looks very much 
 like the end of our 27th Fable, of the "Woman who outwitted 
 the Elephants. 
 
 * Sir James E. Alexander, in his " Expedition of Discovery 
 into the Interior of Africa," vol. i. p. 166, speaking of the 
 people at Warm Bath, or Nisbett Bath, says: — "These 
 Namaquas thought that they came from the East. In the 
 country there is occasionally found (besides the common 
 graves covered with a heap of stones) large heaps of stones, 
 on which had been thrown a few bushes ; and if the Nama- 
 quas are asked what these are, they say that Heije Eibib, 
 their Great Father, is below the heap ; they do not know 
 what he is like, or what he does ; they only imagine that he 
 also came from the East, and had plenty of sheep and goats ; 
 and when they add a stone or branch to the heap, they 
 mutter, ' Give us plenty of cattle.' " 
 
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 37. THE VICTORY OF HEITSI EIBIP. 
 
 (From a Q-erman original Manuscript in Sir Or. Grey's Library, 
 H. C. Knudsen's " Notes on the Hottentots,' - p. 7.) 
 
 AT first they were two. One had made a large hole 
 in the ground, and sat by it, and told passers-by to 
 throw a stone at his forehead. The stone, however, 
 rebounded and killed the person who had thrown it, 
 so that he fell into the hole. At last Heitsi Eibip 
 was told that in this manner many people died. So 
 he arose and went to the man, who challenged Heitsi 
 Eibip to throw (a stone) at him. The latter, however, 
 declined, for he was too prudent ; but he drew the 
 man's attention to something on one side, and while 
 he turned round to look at it, Heitsi Eibip hit him 
 behind the ear, so that he died and fell into his own 
 hole. After that there was peace, and people lived 
 happily.* 
 
 * Sir James Alexander, in his " Expedition of Discovery 
 into the Interior of Africa,'' vol. ii. p. 250, states : — " On 
 the 3rd of August the waggon went on to Aneip, or Wet 
 Foot, and I went out of the way with Jan Buys, and two or 
 three men, to see a hole, which was supposed to be inhabited 
 by ffeije Eibib, and was the wonder of the country." 
 
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 38. ANOTHER VERSION OF THE SAME 
 LEGEND. 
 
 (The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir G. Grey's 
 Library, Ot. Kronlein's Manuscript, p. 36.) 
 
 ALL men who came near to that hole were, it is said, 
 pushed down into it by the + Gs. ±gorip* (the pusher 
 into the hole), as he knew well where it lay. Whilst 
 he was thus employed, there came the Heitsi Eibip, 
 called also Heigeip, and saw how the ±G& ±gorip 
 treated the people. 
 
 Then these two began to hunt each other round the 
 hole, saying — 
 
 " Push the Heigeip down !" 
 " Push the ± Ga ±gorip down !" 
 "Push the Heigeip down !" 
 " Push the ±Ga ±gorip down !" 
 
 "With these words they hunted each other round 
 for some time ; but at last the Heigeip was pushed 
 
 * The ± is the palatal click, described in Note to Fable 
 24, p. 55; and indicates the nasal pronunciation of a syllable. 
 
TEE VICTORY OF BMITSI HIS IP. 79 
 
 down. Then he said to the hole, "Support me a 
 little," and it did. Thus, being supported, he came 
 out ; and they hunted each other again with the same 
 words : — 
 
 " Push the Heigeip down !" 
 " Push the +(?£ $gorip down !" 
 
 A second time the Heigeip was pushed down, and 
 he spoke the same words : " Support me a little," and 
 thus got out again. 
 
 Once more these two hunted after each other, till 
 at last the + Gfi ^gorip was pushed down, and he came 
 not up again. Since that day men breathed freely 
 and had rest from their enemy, because he was van- 
 quished. 
 
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 39. THE RAISIN-EATEE. 
 
 (The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir G-. Grey's 
 Library, G-. Kronlein's Manuscript, pp. 34, 35.) 
 
 IT is said that when. Heitsi Eibip was travelling about 
 with his family, they came to a valley in which the 
 raisin-tree was ripe, and he was there attacked by a 
 severe illness. Then his young (second) wife said, 
 " This brave one is taken ill on account of these 
 raisins ; death is here at the place." The old man 
 (Heitsi Eibip), however, told his son .' Urisip* (the 
 whitish one), "I shall not live, I feel it ; thou must, 
 therefore, cover me when I am dead with soft stones." 
 And he spoke further, " This is the thing which I 
 order you to do : — ' Of the raisin-trees of this valley 
 ye shall not eat. For if ye eat of them I shall infect 
 you, and ye will surely die in a similar way.' " 
 
 His young wife said, " He is taken ill on account 
 of the raisins of this valley. Let us bury him quickly, 
 and let us go." 
 
 * The / is the cerebral click described in Note to Fable 
 27, p. 62. 
 
THE RAISIW-EATER. 81 
 
 So he died there, and was covered flatly with soft 
 stones according as he had commanded. Then they 
 went away from him. 
 
 When they had moved to another place, and were 
 unpacking there, they heard always from the side 
 whence they came a noise as of people eating raisins 
 and singing. In this manner the eating and singing 
 
 "I, father of lUrisip, 
 Father of this unclean one, 
 I, who had to eat these raisins, and died, 
 And dying live." 
 
 The young wife perceived that the noise came from 
 the side where the old man's grave was, and said, 
 " / Urisip ! Go and look I" Then the son went to the 
 old man's grave, where he saw traces which he recog- 
 nised to be his father's footmarks, and returned 
 home. Then the young wife said, " It is he alone ; 
 therefore act thus : — 
 
 " Do so to the man who ate raisins on the windward 
 
 side, 
 Take care of the wind that thou creepest upon him 
 
 from the leeward ; 
 Then intercept him on his way to the grave, 
 
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82 EEITSI EIBIP AND OTSEB LEGENDS. 
 
 And when, thou hast caught him, do not let him 
 go." 
 
 He did accordingly, and they came between the 
 grave andHeitsi Eibip-who, when he saw this, jumped 
 down from the raisin-trees, and ran quickly, but was 
 caught at the grave. Then he said : 
 
 " Let me go ! For I am a man who has been dead 
 that I may not infect you !" But the young wife 
 said, " Keep hold of the rogue !" So they brought 
 him home, and from that day he was fresh and hale. 
 
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 40. ORIGIN OF THE DIFFERENCE IN 
 MODES OF LIFE BETWEEN HOTTEN- 
 TOTS AND BUSHMEN. 
 
 (From a G-erman original Manuscript in Sir Or. Grey's Library, 
 H. C. Xnudsen's " Notes on the Hottentots," pp. 7, 8.) 
 
 IN the beg inn ing there were two. One was blind, 
 the other was always hunting. This hunter found at 
 last a hole in the earth, from which game proceeded, 
 and killed the young. The blind man, feeling and 
 smelling them, said, " They are not game, but cattle." 
 
 The blind man afterwards recovered his sight, and 
 going with the hunter to this hole, saw that they were 
 cows with their calves. He then quickly built a 
 kraal (fence made of thorns) round them, and 
 anointed himself, just as Hottentots (in their native 
 state) are still wont to do. 
 
 When the other, who now with great trouble had 
 to seek his game, came and saw this, he wanted to 
 anoint himself also. "Look here!" said the other, 
 " you must throw the ointment into the fire, and after- 
 wards use it." He followed this advice, and the flames 
 
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 BEITSI EIBIP AND OTHER LEGENDS. 
 
 flaring up into his face, burnt him most miserably ; 
 so that he was glad to make his escape. The other, 
 however, called to him : " Here, take the kirri (a 
 knobstick), and run to the bills, to hunt there for 
 honey." 
 
 Hence sprung the race of Bushmen. 
 
VIII. 
 
 HOUSEHOLD TALES. 
 
 41. THE LITTLE WISE WOMAN. 
 
 (The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir Gr. Grey's 
 Library, Gr. Kronlein's Manuscript, p. 53.) 
 
 A GIRL, it is said, went to seek for onions. As she 
 arrived at uie place where they grew, she met with 
 some men, one of whom was blind (i.e., half-blind, 
 having only one eye). As she dug (for the onions) 
 the men helped her, digging also. When her sack 
 was full, they said to her, " Gro, tell the other girls, 
 that many of you may come." So she went home and 
 told her companions, and early the next morning they 
 started. But a little girl followed them. The other 
 girls said, "Let the little girl go back." But her elder 
 sister protested* against this, saying, "She runs by 
 herself, you need not put her into your awa-skin." 
 
 So they went all together, and having reached the 
 onion-ground, began to dig. ~Now the little girl saw 
 
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 traces of feet, and said to the one who had guided 
 them, thither, " "Wonderful! whence so many traces ? 
 Were you not alone here ?" The other replied, " I 
 walked about and looked out; therefore they must of 
 course be many." The child, however, did not be- 
 lieve that if the other girl had been alone the traces 
 could be many, and felt uneasy ; for she was a wise 
 little woman. From time to time she rose (from her 
 work) and peeped about, and once, while doing this, 
 found by chance an ant-eater's hole. Still further 
 spying about, she perceived some men, but they did 
 not see her. She then returned and continued dig- 
 ging with the other girls, without, however, saying 
 anything. But in the midst of their work she always 
 rose and looked about her. So the others asked her, 
 "Why do you always spy about you, and leave off 
 digging ? What a girl !" But she continued her 
 work in silence. When she rose from it again, she 
 saw the men approaching. As they drew near the One- 
 eyed blew through a reed pipe the following air : — 
 
 " To-day there shall blood flow, blood flow, blood 
 flow !" 
 
 The little girl understood what was blown on the 
 reed. She said to the elder ones, whilst they were 
 dancing, " Do you also understand the tune that is 
 blown on the reed ?" But they, only said, " What a 
 
TSB LITTLE WISE WOMAN. 87 
 
 child she is !" So she mixed in the dance with the 
 others; hut managed while so doing to tie her sister's 
 caross-cloak to her own, and in this manner they 
 danced on, till it hecame very noisy, and then they 
 found an opportunity to slip away. 
 
 On their way out the little sister asked, " Do you 
 understand the reed — I mean what is blown on it ?" 
 She answered, "I do not understand it." Then the 
 little girl explained to her that the tune on the reed 
 said, " To-day blood shall flow ! " "When they walked 
 along, the little girl let her elder sister go first, and 
 herself followed, walking backwards, and carefully 
 stepping in her sister's traces, so that they thus 
 left only one set of footmarks, and these going in a 
 contrary direction. In this manner they arrived at 
 the ant-eater's hole. 
 
 But the men killed all those girls who had remained 
 dancing with them. "When the eldest of those who 
 had escaped heard their wailing, she said, " Alas, my 
 sisters !" But the younger one answered her, " Do 
 you think you would have lived if you had remained 
 there?" 
 
 Now "One-eye" was the first to miss the sisters, and 
 said to the other men, " Where may the two hand- 
 some girls be who danced with me ?" The others 
 replied, " He lies. He has seen with his eye (satiri- 
 
83 HOUSEHOLD TALES. 
 
 cally meaning he had seen wrongly) . But " One-eye" 
 insisted that " two girls were truly missing." Then 
 they went to find their spoor, but the traces had been 
 rendered indistinct enough to puzzle them. 
 
 When the men arrived at the ant-eater's hole, they 
 could not see that the footmarks went further, so they 
 spied into the hole, but saw nothing. Then " One- 
 eye " looked also, and he saw the girls, and cried, 
 " There they sit." The others now looked again, 
 but still saw nothing ; for the girls had covered them- 
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 One of the men then took an assegai, and piercing 
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 the larger girl. But the little wise woman took 
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 her not. 
 
 When " One-eye " spied again, the little girl made 
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 others looked too, but as they could see nothing they 
 said (satirically), "He has only seen with his eye." 
 
 At last the men got thirsty, and said to " One-eye," 
 " Stay you here, and let us go to drink, and when we 
 have returned you may go also." 
 
 When " One-eye " was left alone there, the little 
 girl said (conjuring him) : 
 
TEE LITTLE WISE WOMAN. 89 
 
 " You dirty son of your father, 
 Are you there ? Are you alone not thirsty ? 
 Oh, you dirty child of your father ! 
 Dirty child of your father !" 
 
 " I am indeed thirsty," said " One-eye," and went 
 away. 
 
 Then the two girls came out of the hole, and the 
 younger one took her elder sister on her back, and 
 walked on. As they were going over the bare, tree- 
 less plain, the men saw them, and said, " There they 
 are, far off," and ran after them. 
 
 When they came near, the two girls turned them- 
 selves into thorn trees, called " "VVait-a-bit," and the 
 beads which they wore became gum on the trees. 
 The men then ate of the gum and fell asleep. Whilst 
 they slept, the girls smeared gum over the men's eyes 
 and went away, leaving them lying in the sun. 
 
 The girls were already near their kraal, when 
 " One-eye " awoke, and said : 
 " Oh, the disgrace ! fie on thee ! 
 Our eyes are smeared over ; fie on thee, my brother !" 
 
 Then they removed the gum from their eyes, and 
 hunted after the girls ; but the latter reached home 
 in safety, and told their parents what had happened. 
 
 Then all lamented greatly, but they remained quietly 
 at home, and did not search for the other girls. 
 
90 
 
 42. THE UNREASONABLE CHILD TO WHOM 
 THE DOG- GAVE ITS DESERTS; 
 
 OR, A RECEIPT FOR PUTTING ANT ONE TO SLEEP. 
 
 (JTie original, in the o Tyi-hererd or Damara language, is in Sir Gr. 
 Grey's Library, J. Kath's Manuscript, pp. 39, 43.) 
 
 THERE was a little girl who had an e'ingi (pro- 
 nounced a-inghi, some kind of fruit) . She said to her 
 Mother, " Mother, why is it that you do not say, * My 
 first-born, give me the e'ingi ?' Do I refuse it ?" 
 
 " Her Mother said, " My first-born, give me the 
 e'ingi." She gave it to her and went away, and her 
 Mother ate the e'ingi. 
 
 When the child came back, she said, " Mother, give 
 me my e'ingi ?" but her Mother answered, " I have 
 eaten the e'ingi 1" 
 
 The child said, " Mother, how is it that you have 
 eaten my e'ingi, which I plucked from our tree ?" 
 The Mother then (to appease her) gave her a needle. 
 
 The little girl went away and found her Eather sew- 
 ing thongs with thorns ; so she said, " Eather, how 
 is it that you sew with thorns ? Why do not you say, 
 
THE CHILD WHO HAD ITS DESERTS. 91 
 
 ' My first-born, give me your needle ?' Do I refuse ?" 
 So her Father said, " My first-born, give me your 
 needle." She gave it to him and went away for a 
 while. Her Father commenced sewing, but the needle 
 broke ; when, therefore, the child came back and said, 
 " Father, give me my needle," he answered, " The 
 needle is broken ;" but she complained about it, say- 
 ing, " Father, how is it that you break my needle, 
 which I got from Mother, who ate my eingi, which I 
 had plucked from our tree ?" Her Father then gave 
 her an axe. 
 
 Going farther on she met the lads who were in 
 charge of the cattle. They were busy taking out 
 honey, and in order to get at it they were obliged to 
 cut down the trees with stones. She addressed them : 
 " Our sons, how is it that you use stones in order 
 to get at the honey ? Why do not you say, ' Our 
 first-born, give us the axe ?' Do I refuse, or what do 
 I ?" They said, " Our first-born, give us the axe." 
 So she gave it them, and went away for some time. 
 The axe broke entirely. When she came back she 
 asked, "Where is the axe ? Please give it me." They 
 answered, "The axe is broken." She then said, 
 " How is it that you break my axe, which I had re- 
 ceived from Father who had broken my needle, which 
 I got from Mother who had eaten my eingi, which I 
 
92 SOUSEKOLD TALUS. 
 
 had plucked from our tree ?" But they gave her 
 some honey (to comfort her). 
 
 She went her way again, and met a little old 
 woman, eating insects, to whom she said, " Little old 
 woman, how is it that you eat insects ? Why 
 don't you say, ' My first-born, give me honey ?' Do 
 I refuse or not ?" Then the little old woman asked, 
 "My first-born, give me honey." She gave it her 
 and went away ; but presently returning, said, 
 " Little old woman, let me have my honey !" Now 
 the old woman had managed to eat it all during her 
 absence, so she answered, " Oh ! I have eaten the 
 honey '•" So the child complained, saying, " How is 
 it that you eat my honey, which I received from the 
 lads of our cattle, from our children who had broken 
 my axe, which had been given me by Father who 
 had broken my needle, which was a present from my 
 Mother who had eaten up my eingi, that I had plucked 
 from our tree ?" 
 
 The little old woman gave her food, and she went 
 away. This time she came to the pheasants, who 
 scratched the ground ; and she said, " Pheasants ! 
 how is it that you scratch the ground ? Why do not 
 you say, ' First-born, give us food ?' Do I refuse, or 
 what do I ?" They said, " First-born, give." So 
 she gave to them, and went away. When she came 
 
THE CHILD WHO HAD ITS DESERTS. 93 
 
 back and demanded her food again, they said, " We 
 haYe eaten the food." She asked, " How is it that 
 you eat my food, which I had received from a little 
 old woman who had eaten up my honey, that I had 
 got from the lads of our cattle who had broken my 
 axe, which had been given me by my Father who 
 had broken my needle, which was a present from my 
 Mother who had eaten my eingi, which I had plucked 
 from our tree ?" The pheasants, flying up, pulled out 
 each one a feather and threw them down to the little 
 girl. 
 
 She then, walking along, met the children who 
 watched the sheep. They were plucking out hairs 
 from the sheep-skins. So she asked them, " How, is 
 it that you pull at these skins ? Wh}- do not you 
 say, ' First-born, give us the feathers ?' Do I refuse, 
 or what do I ?" They said, " First-born, give us the 
 feathers." She gave them and went away, but all 
 the feathers broke. When she returned and said, 
 "Give me my feathers," they answered, "The 
 feathers are broken." Then she complained, " Do 
 you break my feathers which I received from the 
 pheasants who had eaten my food, which had been 
 given me by a little old woman ?" They gave her 
 some milk. 
 
 She went again on her way, and found their own 
 
94 HOUSEHOLD TALES. 
 
 handsome dog gnawing bones. She said, " Our dog, 
 how is it that you gnaw these bones?" The dog 
 answered, " Give me milk ." She gave it him, and 
 he drank it all. Then she said to the dog, "Give 
 me back my milk." He said, " I drank it." She 
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 so often before ; but the dog ran away, and when she 
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 up after him, but the dog jumped down again on the 
 other side. She wanted to do the same, but could 
 not. Then she said, " Our dog, please help me 
 down." He answered, " Why did you pursue me ?" 
 and ran away leaving her up the tree. 
 
 " That is enough," say the Damara. 
 
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 Reliefer. The Bishop's Wife. A Tale 
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 Swan wick. Selections from the 
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 Winckelmann. The History op 
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 man, by G. H. Lodge. Beautifully 
 Illustrated. 8vo. Pp. viii. and 254, 
 cloth, 12s. 1850. 
 
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 possessed, in the highest degree, the power of 
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 with, but never more so than w"hen seen in the 
 
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 him to a marvel for the task he undertook. . . 
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 -this Life. By Lieut. H. A. Wise, U.S.N. 
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 menia, Assyria, Syria, the Holy Land, 
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 12mo. pp. viii. and 106. 5s. 
 
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 nological, and other Researches, in New 
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 with Observations on the Pre-Tncarial, 
 Incarial, and other Monuments of Pe-' 
 ruvian Nations. With numerous Plates. 
 Svo. 15s. 
 
 Falkener (Edward). A Description of 
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 Remaius in'Crete, from a MS. History 
 of Candia, by Onorio Belli, in 1586. 
 Being a Supplement to the " Museum 
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 and nine Plates. Pp.32,roval8vo. cloth. 
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 Goloviu (Ivan). The Caucasus. In 
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 The Nations of Russia and 
 
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 THROUGH THE STATES OF NEW YORK 
 
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 Translated by Mrs. Perot Sinnett. 
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 1861. 
 
 Krapf . Travels, Researches, and Mis- 
 sionary Labours, during an Eighteen 
 Years' Residence on the Eastern Coast 
 of Africa. By the Rev. Dr. J. Lewis 
 Krapf, late Missionary in the service 
 of the Church Missionary Society in 
 Eastern and Equatorial Africa; to which 
 is prefixed a concise Account of Geogra- 
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 to the present time, by J. E. Raven- 
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 reader."— A thenceum. 
 
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 trating its finest Cities, Castles, Ruins, 
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 Messrs. Rohbock, Louis and Julius 
 Lanqe. Engraved by the most distin- 
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 Catalogue of Important Works. 
 
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 -Paton. Researches on the Danube 
 a-nd the Adriatic; or, Contributions 
 to the Modern History of Hungary and 
 Transylvania, Dalmatia and Croatia, 
 Servia and Bulgaria. By A. A. Paton, 
 F.R.G.S. In 2 vols. 12mo. Pp,S30, 
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 Ravcnsteln. The Russians on the 
 Amur; its Discovery, Conquest, and 
 Colonization, with a Description of the 
 Country, its Inhabitants, Productions, 
 and Commercial Capabilities, and Per- 
 sonal Accounts of Russian Travellers. 
 By E. G. Ravehstein, F.R.G.S./ Cor- 
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 Mr. Bavenstein has set himself a weighty task, 
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 Amur, which is not considered in this volume. " 
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 little known." — Morning Advertiser. 
 
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 valuable and useful addition to English know- 
 ledge thereof."— Dublin Nation. 
 
 " Mr. Ravenstein has produced a work of solid 
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 subject concerning which Englishmen will, be- 
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 they can get."— Globe. 
 
 "In conclusion, we must compliment Mr. 
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 compiler. He himself has never visited the ) 
 Amur; and has composedhisworkentirely from 
 the accounts of previous travellers. But he has 
 done it bo well, that few readers except those 
 whose business it is to be suspicious, would have 
 found it out, if it had not been acknowledged in 
 the preface.'' — Literary Budget. 
 
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 the fresliness of a narrative of personal explora- 
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 while for those who are possessed of a geographi- 
 cal taste, which is in some degree a thing apart, it 
 will have a high degree of interest.* Spectator. 
 
 " Thie book is a good honest book — a book that 
 was needed, and that may be referred to as a re- 
 liable- source of information. - ' — Athenaeum. 
 
 " The work before us is full of important and 
 accurate information." — London Review. 
 
 "His book is by for the most comprehensive 
 review of all that has been observed and ascer- 
 tained of a little-known portion of Asia." — 
 Guardian. 
 
 " There is a breadth and massiveness about the 
 work which mark it off very distinctly from the 
 light books of travel or history which are written 
 to amuse a railroad traveller, or a subscriber to 
 Mudie's." — China Telegraph. 
 
 " The volume deserves a careful perusal, and 
 it will be found exceedingly instructive."-* 
 Observer. 
 
 " The aim of Mr. Ravenstein has been to make 
 his book one of authority, and in this he has 
 certainly been most successful."— Bell's Mes- 
 senger. 
 
 " We are fortunate, too, in our opportunity, 
 for it would be hard to find a more careful or 
 trustworthy guide than Mr. Ravenstein, who 
 has not only availed himself of all accessible 
 publications on the subject, but has also enjoyed 
 the immense advantage of holding personal 
 communication with Russian officers who had 
 served on the Amur."— A lien's Indian Mail. 
 
 " The book to which we are indebted for our in- 
 formation is a perfect magazine of knowledge, 
 and must becom e thestandard work on the Amur. 
 It does not affect liveliness or brilliancy, but 
 is constantly perspicuous, interesting, and com- 
 plete. We have never opened a more satisfac- 
 tory and well-arranged collection of all that is 
 known on any given subject, than Raveustein's 
 Russians on the Amur." — Liverpool Daily Post. 
 
 " A well-written work." — Morning Post. 
 
 "The account by Mr. Ravenstein of their 
 long-continued effortB and recent Buccess, is one 
 of the most complete books we have ever met 
 with — it is an exhaustive monograph of the poli- 
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 journeys of Russian explorers, the early preda- 
 tory incursions, the narratives of missionaries, 
 ana the accounts of the Chinese themselves^ 
 are brought together with great skill and bug* 
 cess." — Westminster Review. 
 
 Sartorius(C). Mexico, Landscapes 
 and Popular Sketches. Edited by Dr. 
 Gaspey, with Engravings by distin- 
 guished Artists, from original Sketches. 
 By Moritz Ru gen das. 4to. cloth gilt. 
 18s. 
 
 Schlagintweit. Results of a Sci- 
 entific Mission to India and Upper- 
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 Robert de Schlaqintweit. Under- 
 taken between 1854 and 1858, by order 
 of the Honourable East India Com- 
 
Trubner & Co., 60, Paternoster Row. 
 
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 Seyd (Ernest). California and its 
 Resources. A Work for the Merchant, 
 
 the Capitalist, and the Emigrant. 8vo. 
 cloth, plates, 8s. fid. 
 
 Ware. Sketches of European Capi- 
 tals. By William Ware, Author of 
 "Zenobia; or. Letters from Palmyra," 
 "Aurelian," &c. 8vo. Pp. 124, Is. 1851. 
 
 Memoirs, Politics, History, etc. 
 
 Address of the Assembled 
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 Majesty the Kingof Denmark. 
 
 8vo. Pp. 32, Is. 1801. 
 Administration (the) of the 
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 and Hon. W. H. Seward, all of which 
 was laid before the Provisional Con- 
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 Davis. 8vo. Pp. 8, sewed, Is. 1861. 
 
 Americans (the) Defended. By 
 
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 of bis Countrymen in Europe, in an- 
 swer to inquiries concerning the late 
 imputations of dishonour upon the 
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 1844. 
 
 Austria, and her Position 
 with regard to Hungary and 
 Europe. An Addiess to the English 
 Press. By a Hungarian. 8vo. Pp. 
 32, sewed, Is. 1861. 
 
 Bell. The English in India. Letters 
 from Nagpore, written in 1857-8. By 
 Captain Evans Bell. Post 8vo. Pp. 
 02, cloth. 4s. 1859. 
 
 Benjamin. Speech of Hon. J. P. 
 Benjamin, of Louisiana, on the Right 
 of Secession, delivered in the Senate of 
 the United States, Deo. 31st, 1860. 
 Royal 8vo. Pp. 16, sewed, Is. 
 
 Bicknell. In the Track of the Gari- 
 baldians through Italy and Sicily. 
 By Algernon Sidney Bicknell. Cr. 
 8vo. Pp. xx. and 344, cloth, 10s. 6d. 
 1861. 
 
 Blind. An Outline of the State of 
 Things in Schleswig-Holstein. By 
 Karl Blind. 8vo. Pp. 16, sewed. 1862. 
 6d. 
 
 Bunsen. Memoir on the Constitu- 
 tional Rights of the Duchies of 
 Sohleswig andHolstein, presented to 
 Viscount Palmerston, by Chevalier 
 Bunsen, on the 8th of Apri, , 1848. With 
 a Postscript, of the 15th of April. Pub- 
 lished with M. de Gruner's Essay, on 
 the Danish Question, and all the official 
 Documents, by Otto Von Wenkstern. 
 Illustrated by a Map of the Two 
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 2s. 6d. 
 
 Chapman. Remarks on the Legal 
 Basis required by Irrigation in In- 
 dia. By John Chapman. 8vo. Pp.20. 
 Is. 1854. 
 
 Indian Political Reform. 
 
 Being Brief Hints, together with a 
 Plan for the Improvement of the Con- 
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 and the Promotion of Public Works. 
 By John Chapm ,n. Pp. 36, cloth, Is. 
 1853. 
 
 Baroda and Bombay ; their 
 
 Political Morality. A Narrative drawn 
 from the Papers laid before Parliament 
 in relation to the Removal of Lieut-Col. 
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 dent at the Court of the Gaekwar. 
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 J. Chapman. 8vo. Pp. iv. and 174. 
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 Bombay Presidency. By John Chap- 
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 xii. and 232. 6s. 
 
 Clayton and Bulwer Conven- 
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 Historia de las Floridas. Los ha dado 
 a luz el Senor Don Buckingham Smith, 
 segun los manuscritos de Madrid y Se- 
 villa. Tomo primero, folio, pp. 216, 
 con retrato del Rey D. Fernando V. 
 
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 Fr. Richter. Compiled from various 
 sources. Together with his Autobio- 
 graphy, translated from the* German. 
 2 vols. Pp. xvii. and 465, paper in 
 cover, 7s. 1845. 
 
 Schimmelfennig. The War be- 
 tween Turkey and Russia. A Mili- 
 tary Sketch. By A. Sohimmelfennio. 
 8vo., 2s. 
 
 Schoelcher. Dangers to England 
 of the Alliance with the Men of 
 the Coup-d'ETAT. By Victor Schoel- 
 cher, Representative of the People. 
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 Serf (the) and the Cossack; or, 
 
 Internal State of Russia. Second Edi- 
 tion, revised and enlarged. 12mo., 
 sewed, fid. 
 
 Smith. Looal Self-Government and 
 Centralization. The Characteristics 
 of each ; and its Practical Tendencies 
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 prehensive Outlines of the English 
 Constitution. With copious Index. By 
 J. Toulmin Smith, Esq., Barrister-at- 
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 The world is awful to him — truth is sacred. 
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 it, truth is all for which he cares to live. If he 
 is dogmatic, he is not vain ; if he is drying up 
 the fountain of life, yet to him lift: is holy. He 
 does not care for fame, for wealth, for rank, for 
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 cause he feels the unknown and terrible forces 
 which are busy at the warp and woof of the 
 marvellous existence-"— Fraser's Magazine. 
 
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 rare merit of strictest honesty of purpose, as an 
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 penetrate the mystery and ascertain the truth, 
 pursued with a brave resolve to shrink from no 
 results to which that inquiry might lead, and to 
 state them, whatever reception they might have 
 from the world." — Critic. 
 
 "A curious and valuable contribution to 
 psychological science, and we regard it with 
 interest, as containing the best and fullest deve- 
 lopment of the new theories of mesmerism, 
 clairvoyance, and the kindred hypotheses. The 
 book 1b replete with profound reflections thrown 
 out incidentally, is distinguished by a peculiar 
 elegance of style,and, in the hands of a calm and 
 philosophical theologian may serve as a useful 
 precis of the most formidable difficulties he has 
 to contend against in the present day."— Weekly 
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 by an ease and grace of language ana expression 
 that give to a subject, for the most part intricate 
 and perplexing, an inexpressible charm."— 
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 Officer. Post 8vo. Pp. xix. and 222, 
 cloth, 5s. 1861. 
 
 Baconl, Francisci, Verulamien- 
 sts Sermones Fideles, sive interiors 
 rerura, ad Latinam orationem emenda- 
 tiorem revocavit philologus Latinus. 
 12mo. pp.xxvi. and 272. 1861. 3b. 
 
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 liam E. Channing. Post 8vo. Pp. 56, 
 cloth, Is. 1844. 
 
 Cointe. The Catechism of Positive 
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 of Augnste Comte. By Richard 
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 freat acuteness of reasoning, and conspicuous for 
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 but on exhibition of the methods of human 
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 ferent branches, M. Comte calls his work philo- 
 sophy ; and because it limits itself to what can 
 be proved, he terms it positive philosophy.'*— 
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 to all concerned in this publication of the opus 
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 On the Nature of the Scholar, 
 
 and its Manifestations. By Johann 
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 " With great satisfaction we welcome this first 
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 act. 
 
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 generate English society." — The Gritic. 
 
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 By Johann Gottlieb Fichte. Trans- 
 lated from the German by William 
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 cloth, 2s. 1847. 
 
 "■The Vocation of a Scholar ... .is 
 distinguished by the Bame high moral tone, and 
 manly, vigorous expression ' which characterize 
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 lost in Mr Smith's elear, unembarrassed, and 
 thoroughly English translation."— Douglas Jer- 
 rold's Newspaper. 
 
 " We are glad to see this excellent translation 
 of out- of the beBt of Fichte's works presented to 
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 writ tun in Fichte's most earnest, moBt com- 
 manding temper, will be welcomed in its 
 English dress by public writers, and be bene- 
 ficial to the cause of truth." — Economist. 
 
 ... - - The Vocation of Man. By 
 Johann Gottlieb Fichte. Translated 
 from the German by William Smith. 
 Post8vo. Pp. xii. and 198, cloth, 4s. 
 1848. 
 
 " In the progress of my present work, I have 
 taken a de per glance into religion than ever I 
 did before. In me the emotions of the heart 
 proceed only from perfect intellect ual clearness ; 
 it cannut be but the clearness I Tiave now at- 
 tained on this subject shall also take possession 
 of my heart."— Fichte's Correspondence. 
 
 " 'The "Vocation uf Man ' is, as Fichte truly 
 says, intelligible to all readers who are really 
 able to understand a book at all; and as the 
 history of the mind in its various phases of 
 doubt, knowledge, and faith, it is of interest to 
 all. A book of tliis stamp is sure to teach you 
 much, because it excites thought. If it rouses 
 you to combat his conclusions, it has done a 
 good work j for in that very effort you are stirred 
 to a consideration of points which have hitherto 
 escaped your indolent acquiescence."— Foreign 
 Quar terly. 
 
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 "This is Fichte's most popular work, and is 
 every way remarkable,"— Auas. 
 
 " It appears to ub the boldest and most em- 
 phatic attempt that has yet been made to ex- 
 plain to man his restless and unconquerable de- 
 sire to win the True and the Eternal."— Sentinel. 
 
 Ftchte. The Way towards a Blessed 
 Life ; or, tbe Doctrine of Religion. By 
 Johann Gottlieb Fichte. Translated 
 by William Smith. Post 8vo. Pp. viii. 
 and 221, cloth , 5s. 1849. 
 
 Memoir of Johann Gottlieb 
 
 Fichte. By William Smith. Second 
 Edition. Post 8vo. Pp. 168, cloth, 4s. 
 1848. 
 
 '* A Life of Fichte, full of nobleness 
 
 and instruction, of grand purpose, tender feel- 
 ing, and brave effort I the compilation 
 
 of which is executed with great judgment and 
 fidelity."— Prospective Review. 
 
 " We state Fichte's character as it is known 
 and admitted by men of all parties among the 
 Germans, when we say that so robust an intel- 
 lect, a soul so calm, so lofty, massive, and immo- 
 veable, has not mingled in philosophical dis- 
 cussion since the time of Luther .... Fichte's 
 opinions may be true or false; but his character 
 as a thinker can be slightly valued only by such 
 as know it ill; and as a man, approved Dy action 
 and suffering, in his life ana in his death, he 
 ranks with a class of men who were common 
 only in better ages than ours."— State of German 
 Literature, by Thomas Carlyle. 
 
 Foxton. Popular Christianity; its 
 Transition State, and Probable De- 
 velopment. By Frederick J. Foxton, 
 .- A.B., formerly of Pembroke College, 
 Oxford, and Perpetual Curate of Stoke 
 Priorand Docklow, Herefordshire. Post 
 8vo. Pp ix. and 226, cloth. 1849. 5s. 
 " Few writers are bolder, but his manne/ is 
 singularly considerate towards the very opinions 
 that he combats— his language singularly calm 
 and measured. He is evidently a man who.has 
 his purpose sincerely at heart, and indulges in 
 no writing for effect. But what most distin- 
 guishes him lrom many with whom he may be 
 compared is, the positiveneas of his doctrine. A 
 prototype for his volume may be- found in that 
 of the American, Theodore Parker — the " Dis- 
 course of Religion-" There is a great coinci- 
 dence in the train of ideas. Parker is more co- 
 pious and eloquent, but Foxton iB far more 
 explicit, definite, and comprehensible in his 
 meaning."— Spectator. 
 
 . "He has a penetration into the spiritual de- 
 sires and wants of the age possible only to one 
 who partakes of them, and he has uttered the 
 most prophetic fact of our religious condition, 
 with a force of conviction, which itself gives 
 confidence, that the fact is as he sees it. His 
 book appears to us to contain many just and 
 profound views of the religious character of the 
 present age, and its indications of progress. He 
 often touches a deep and fruitful truth with a 
 power and fulness that leave nothing to be de- 
 sired."— Prospective Review, Jfov., 1849. 
 
 11 It contains many passages that show a warm 
 appreciation of the moral beauty of Christianity, 
 written with considerable power."— Inquirer. 
 
 "... . with earnestness and eloquence."— 
 Critie. H 
 
 " We muBt refer our readers to the work 
 itself, which is most ably written, and evinces a 
 spirit at once earnest, enlightened, and liberal; 
 in a small compass he presents a moBt lucid ex- 
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 supported by arguments which cannot fail to 
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 applied to Abstract Ideas and Reli- 
 gious Dogmas. By S. W. Hall. Se- 
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 Pp. 120. Bound in cloth, 4s. 6d. 
 
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30 
 
 Catalogue of Important Works. 
 
 " Mr. TrUbner deserves all praise for having 
 produced a work every way satisfactory. No one 
 who takes an interest in the subject of which it 
 treats can dispense with it ; and we have no 
 doubt that booksellers in this country will learn 
 to consider it necessary to them as a shop manual, 
 and only second in importance, for the purposes 
 of their trade, .to the London Catalogue itself. 
 That a foreigner, and a London bookseller, 
 should have accomplished what Americans them- 
 selves have failed to do, is most creditable to the 
 compiler. The volume contains 149 pages of in- 
 troductory matter, containing by far the best 
 record of American literary history yet pub- 
 lished ; and 521 pages of classed lists of books, to 
 which an alphabetical index of 33 pages iB added. 
 This alphabetical index alone may claim to be 
 one of the most valuable aids for enabling the 
 etudent of literary history to form a just and 
 perfect estimate of the great and rising im- 
 portance of Anglo-American literature, the 
 youngest and moat untrammelled of all which 
 illustrate the gradual development of the human 
 mind."— The Press, Philadelphia, Oct. 11. 1858. 
 
 " We do not bo much express the wish by this 
 notice, that Mr. TrUbner may not find a public 
 ungrateful for his labour, as congratulate, espe- 
 cially American Bibliophiles, upon the advan- 
 tage within their reach, by the acquisition and 
 use of what Mr. TrUbner has so opportunely 
 supplied." — Washington National Intelligencer, 
 March 22nd, 1859. 
 
 " This volume contains a well-classified list of 
 books published in the United States of America 
 during the lost forty years, preceded by a tole- 
 rably full survey of American literary enter- 
 prise during the first half of the nineteenth 
 century. The value of such a guide, in itself 
 tolerably evident, becomes more so upon glanc- 
 ing over the five hundred and forty pages of 
 close print which display the literary activity 
 pervading the country of Prescott and Mottley, 
 of Irving and Hawthorne,ofPoe and Longfellow, 
 of Story and Wneaton, of Moses Stuart and 
 Channing. This volume will be useful to the 
 scholar, but to the librarian it is indispensable-" 
 —Daily News, March 2*, 1859. 
 
 " There are hundreds of men of moderate 
 scholarship who would gladly stand on some 
 higher ana more assured point. They feel that 
 they have acquired much information, but they 
 also feel the need of that Bubtle discipline, lite- 
 rary education, without which all mere learning 
 is the rudis indigesta moles, as much of a stum- 
 bling-block as an aid. To those in such a con- 
 dition, works on bibliography are invaluable. 
 For direction in classifying all reading^ whether 
 English or American, AlUbone's Dictionary is 
 admirable ; but, for particular information as to 
 the American aide of the house, the recently 
 
 Eublished Bibliographical Guide to American 
 literature, by Nicolas TrUbner, of London, may 
 be conscientiously commended. A careful pe- 
 rusal of this truly remarkable work cannot fail 
 to give any intelligent person a clear and com- 
 plete idea of the whole state of American book- 
 making, not only in its literary aspect, but in its 
 historical, and, added to this, in its most mecha- 
 nical details." — Philadelpha Evening Bulletin 
 March 5th, 1859. 
 
 1 ' But the best work on American bibliography 
 yet published has come to us from London, 
 where it has been compiled by the well-known 
 bibliophile, TrUbner. The work is remarkable 
 fbr condensation and accuracy, though we have 
 noted a few errors and omissions, upon which we 
 should like to comment, had we now space to do 
 so."— New York limes, March 26th, 1859. 
 
 " Some of our readers, whose attention has 
 been particularly called to scientific and literary 
 matters, may remember meeting, some years 
 since, in this country, a most intelligent fo- 
 reigner, who visited the United States for the 
 purpose of extending his business connections, 
 
 and making a personal investigation into the 
 condition of literature in the Kew World. Mr. 
 Nicholas TrUbner— the gentleman to whom we 
 have made reference — although by birth a Ger- 
 man, and by education and profession a London 
 bookseller, could hardly be called a ' stranger in 
 America,' for he had sent before him a most 
 valuable 'letter of introduction,' in the shape of 
 a carefully compiled register of American books 
 and authors, entitled " Bibliographical Guide 
 to American Literature,' &c, pp. xxxii., 108. 
 This manual was the germ of the important 
 publication, the title of which the reader will 
 find at the commencement of this article. 
 Now, in consequence of Mr. TrUbner's admi- 
 rable classification and minute index, the in- 
 quirer after .knowledge has nothing to do but 
 copy from the Bibliographical Guide thetitles of 
 the American books which he wishes to consult, 
 despatch them to his library by a messenger, and 
 in a few minutes he has before him the coveted 
 volumes, through whose means he hopes to 
 enlarge his acquisitions. Undoubtedly it would 
 be a cause of well-founded reproach , ofdeep mor- 
 tification to every intelligent American, if the 
 arduous labours of the learned editor and com- 
 piler of this volume (whom we almost hesitate to 
 call a foreigner), should fail to be appreciated in 
 a country to which he has, by the preparation of 
 this valuable work, proved himself so eminent a 
 benefactor" — Pennsylvania Enquirer. March 
 26th,1859. 
 
 The editor of this volume has acquired a 
 knowledge of the productions of the American 
 press which is rarely exhibited on the other side 
 of the Atlantic, and which must command the 
 admiration of the best informed students of the 
 subject in this country. His former work on 
 American bibliography, though making no pre- 
 tensions to completeness, was a valuable index 
 to various branches of learning that had been 
 successfully cultivated by our scholars ; but, 
 neither in comprehensiveness of plan nor tho- 
 roughness of execution, con it be compared to the 
 elaborate and minute record of American lite- 
 rature contained in this volume. The duty of 
 the editor required extensive research, vigilant 
 discrimination, and untiring dili gence ; and in 
 the performance of his task we are no less struck 
 with the accuracy of detail than with the extent 
 of his information. The period to which the 
 volume is devoted, comprises only the last 
 forty years ; but within that time the litera- 
 ture of this country hoe received ite most effi- 
 cient impulses, and been widely unfolded in the 
 various departments of intellectual activity 
 If we were permitted to speak in behalf of 
 American scholars, we should not fail to congra- 
 tulate Mr. TrUbner on the eminent success with 
 which he has accomplished his plan, and the 
 ample and impartial justice with which he has 
 registered the productions of our native author- 
 ship. After a careful examination of his volume, 
 we are bound to express our high appreciation of 
 the intelligence, faimess,and industry which are 
 conspicuous in its pogeB ; for exactness and pre- 
 cision it is no less remarkable, than for extent of 
 research j few, if any, important publications 
 are omitted on its catalogue, and although, as is 
 inevitable in a work of this nature, an erroneous 
 letter has sometimes crept into a name, or an 
 erroneous figure into a date, no one can consult 
 it habitually without learning to rely on its 
 trustworthiness, as well as its completeness."— 
 Harper's Magazine, April, 1859. 
 
 " Nor is the book a dry catalogue only of the 
 names and contents of the publications of Ame- 
 rica. Prefixed to it are valuable bibliographical 
 prolegomena, instructive to the antiquary, as 
 well as useful to the philologist. In tins portion 
 of the work, Mr. TrUbner hod the assistance of 
 the late Dr. Ludewig, whose early death was a 
 great loss to philological science. Mr. Moran- 
 the assistant-secretary to the American Lega- 
 tion, has added to the volume a historical sum, 
 mary of the literature of America ; and Mr. 
 
Trilbner & Co., 60, Paternoster How. 
 
 31 
 
 Edward Edwards is responsible for an interesting 
 account of the public libraries of the United 
 States. To Mr. Trubner's own careful superin- 
 tendence and hard work, however, the student 
 must ever remain indebted for one of the most 
 useful and well-arranged bookB on bibliogra- 
 phical lore ever published. In addition to this, 
 it is right to congratulate Mr. Trilbner on the 
 fact, that his present work confirms the opinion 
 passed on his * Bibliotheca Glottica,' that among 
 the booksellers themselves honourable literary 
 eminence may exist, without clashing with busi 
 ness arrangements. The booksellers of old were 
 authors, and Mr. Trttbner emulates their exam- 
 ple."— M orning Cltronicle, March 22, 1869. _ 
 
 " Mr. Trttbner, who is not only a bibliopole 
 but a bibliophile, bus, in this work, materially 
 increased the claim which he had already upon 
 the respect of all book-lovers everywhere, out 
 especially in the United States, to whose litera- 
 ture he has now made so important and useful a 
 contribution. So much larger than a former 
 book, under a similar title, which" he published 
 in 1856, and so much more ample in every 
 respect, the present constitutes a new implement 
 for our libraries, as well as the most valuable ex- 
 isting aid for those students who. without libra- 
 ries, navean interest in knowing their contents." 
 — Baltimore American, 2nd April, 1869. 
 
 '* Lastly, published only the, other day, is 
 Trubner's Bibliographical Guide to American 
 Literature, which gives a classed list of books 
 published in the United States during the last 
 Forty years, with bibliographical introduction, 
 notes, and alphabetical index. This octavo 
 volume has been compiled and edited by Mr. 
 Nicholas Trttbner. the well-known head of one 
 of the great foreign publishing and importing 
 houses of London, who is also editor of Ludewig 
 and Turner's Literature of American Aboriginal 
 Languages. BesideB containing a clossed-list of 
 books, with an alphabetical index, Mr. Trub- 
 ner's book has on introduction, in which, at con- 
 siderable fulness, he treatB of the history of 
 American literature, including newspapers, pe- 
 riodicals, and public libraries. It is fair to state 
 that Mr. Trubner's Bibliographical Guide was 
 
 Eublished subsequent to Ailibone's Dictionary, 
 ut printed off about the same time."— Philadel- 
 phia Press, April 4th, 1859. 
 
 " This is a valuable work for book buyers. 
 For its compilation we are indebted to a foreign 
 bibliomaniac, but one who has made himself 
 familiar with American literature, and lias pos- 
 sessed himself of the most ample sources of in- 
 formation. The volume contains : — I. Biblio- 
 graphical Prolegomena ; II. Contributions to- 
 
 wards a history of American literature ; III 
 Notices of Public Libraries of the United States 
 These three heads form the introduction, and 
 occupy one hundred andfiftypages. IV. Classed 
 list of books ; Y. Alphabetical list of authors. 
 This plan is somewhat after that adopted in 
 Watts' celebrated 'Bibliotheca Britannica,' a 
 work of immense value, whose compilation oc- 
 cupied some forty years. The classified portion 
 of the present work enables the reader to find 
 readily the names of all books on any one sub- 
 ject, The alphabetical index of authors enables 
 the reader to ascertain instantly the names of all 
 authors and of all their works, including the 
 numerous periodical publications of the last 
 forty years. Mr. Trttbner deserves the thanks of 
 the Literary world for hisplan, and its able exe- 
 cution." — New York Courier and Enquirer, 
 April 11th, 1859. 
 " L'auteur, dons une preface de dix pages, ex- 
 
 E3se les id£es qui lui ont fait entreprendre son 
 vre, et le plan qu'il a cru devoir adopter. Dans 
 une savaute introduction, il fait une revue 
 critique des differents ouvrdges relatifs a l'Am£- 
 rique ; il signale ceuxqui ont le plus contribue a 
 1'etablissement d'une literature speciale Ameri- 
 ca hie, et il en fait l'histoire, cette partie de son 
 travail est destinee a lui faire honneur, elle est 
 m£thodiquement diviste en periode coloniale et 
 en periode Ame'ricaine et renferme, but les 
 progres del' imprimerie en Amerique, sur le 
 salaire des auteurs, but le commerce de la li- 
 brairie, les publications plrjodiques. des ren- 
 seignements tres interessants, que Ton est. 
 houreux de trouver rduniB pour la premiere fois 
 Cette introduction, qui n'a paB moins de 150 
 pages, se termine par une table atatistique de 
 toutes les bibliotheques publiques des difte'rents 
 E ta.ts de l'Union. 
 
 " Le catalogue methodique et raisonne" des 
 ouvrages n'occupe pas moins de 521 pages, il 
 forme 32 sections conaacre'es chacune a Tune des 
 branches des sciences humaines; celle qui donne 
 laliste des ouvrages qui int^rcssent la geographic 
 et les voyages (section xvi.) comprend pros de 
 600 articles, et parmi eux on trouvc l'indication 
 de plusicurs ouvrages dont nous ne soupcomiions 
 in. -ii it- pas 1'exiBtcnce en Europe. Un index 
 general alnhabetique par noms d' auteurs qui 
 termine ce livre, permet d'abnJger des recherches 
 souveut bien penibles. Le guide bibliographique 
 de M. Trttbner est un monument tfleve a l'ac- 
 tiviW scientiflque et litte'roire Ame'ricaine et 
 comme tel, il est digne de prendre place a cote 
 des ouvrages du mP me genre publics en Europe 
 
 Sar les Brunet, les Lowndes, et les Ebert. (V. A. 
 lalte-Brun)." — Nouvelles Annates des Voyages, 
 April, 1869.- 
 
 Addenda. 
 
 Cobtoe. An Essay on Intuitive Morals. 
 Being an attempt to popularize Ethical 
 Science. By Francis Tower Cobbe. 
 Part I. Theory of morals. Second 
 Edition. Crown 8vo, Pp 296, cloth. 
 
 Part II. Practice of Morals. Book 
 I, Religious Duty. Second Edition. 
 Crown 8vo„ cloth, in the Press. 
 
 Sclater. Catalogue of a Collection 
 of American Birds belonging to Mr. 
 Philip Linsley Sclater, M. A., Th. Doc, 
 F.R.S. Fellow of Corpus Christi College, 
 Oxford ; Secretary to the Zoological So- 
 ciety of London ; Editor of " The Ibis." 
 8vo. Pp. 354, and 20 coloured Plates of 
 Birds, cloth, 30s.