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REYNARD THE FOX I~ SOUTH AFRIC
OR,
HOTTENTOT FA_BLES AND TALES.

REYNARD THE FOX
SOUTH ~AFRICA·
OR
~ntttntnt ~uhltH nnt! ~alt5.

CHIEFLY TRA~SLATED FROM ORIG~AL MA~LSCRTPT '
IX THE
LIBRARY
OF
HIS EXCELLENCY SIR GEORGE GREY, K.C.B.
BY
W. H. I. BLEEK, PH.D.
LONDON:
TRUBNER AND CO., 60, PATERNOSTER ROW.
1864.
[Tile Ri,qht of T1·anslation is 1'ese·J'Ved.]

LONDON :
WILLJ.I.M STEVENS, PRI:XTEn, 37, "!JELL TARn ,
TEMPToll EAll.
THIS BOOK BELONGS TO
CHILDREN IN SOUTH AFRICA AND ELSEWHERE.
AND TO TIIEIR FRIEND
SIR GEORGE GREY, K.C.B.,

NOW IN NEW ZEALAND.
C O N T ENTS .
I. JACKAL FABLES.
P.\GE
1. The Lion's Defeat 1

2. The Hunt of the Lion and Jackal 3
3. The Lion's Share 5
4. The Jackal's Bride D
5. The White Man and the Snake 11
6. Another Version of the same Fable lu
7. Cloud-Eating 14
8. Fish-Stealing 16
9. Which was the Thief? 1
10. The Lion's Illness 10
11. The Dove and the Heron 21
12. The Cock 23
13. The Leopard and the Ram 24
II. TORTOISE FABLES.
14. The Elephant and the Tortoise 27

15. The Giraffe and the Tortoise . 30
16. The Tortoises Hunting the Ostriches 32
V1ll CONTEN TS.
III. BABOON FABLES.

PAGE
17. The Judgmen t of the Baboon . 33
18. The L:lon and the Baboon 37
19. The Zebra Stallion . 39
20. The Lost Child (a Tale) . 42
21. The Baboon Shepherd (a Tale) 44
IV. 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· transform ed into a Lion (a Tale) 57
26. The Lion and the Bushma n (a Tale) 59
V. VARIOUS FABLES.
27 . How a Nama Woman outwitte d the Elephan ts 61

28. A Bad Sister 65
VI. SuN AND MooN FABLES.
29. Why has the Jackal a long black Stripe on his

Back? 67
30. The Horse cuTsed by the Sun . 68
31. The Origin of Death 69
32 . .Another Version of the same Fable 71
33. A Th:ll·d Version of the same Fable 72
CONTEXTS. L"
I'.\GE
34. A Fourth Version of the same Fable ~.
35. A Zulu Version of the Legend of the "Origin of

Death" 74
/
VII. HEITSI EIBIP AND OTHER LEGE .. DS.
36. Heitsi Eibip 7!J

37. The Victory of Heitsi Eibip 77
38. Another Version of the same Legend 78
39. The Raisin-Eater 80
40. Origin of the Diffe:i'ence in :Modes of Life between
Hottentots and Bushmen 83
VIII. HOUSEHOLD TALES.
41. The Little Wise Woman . 85

42. The Um·easonable Child to whom the Dog gave
its Deserts; or, a Receipt for getting any one
to Sleep . 90
PRE FAC E.
JYiy DEAR SIR GEORGE ,
In inscribi ng 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 Mrica, requesting them to make collections
of Native Literatu re, similar in nature to those
which, through your instrum entality , had been so
abundan tly rescued from oblivion in New Zealand.
I then wrote, among others, to the Rev. G. Kronlei n,
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
..
Xll PRE FAC E.
Fables, Tales, and Legends, besides twe

lve Songs of
Praise, thir ty-t wo Proverbs, and twelve
Rid dle s; all
in Ho tten tot (as tak en down by him. from
the mo uth
of the Natives) and Ger ma n, par tly acc
ompanied by
exp lan ato ry notes, inc lud ing frag me nts
of the I Nu s a*
Bus hm an language.' l\1r . Kro nle in's
ma nus crip ts
fill sixty-five pages, mostly in qua rto,
wit h double
columns.
You are aware tha t the existence of Fab
les am ong
the Ho tten tots was alre ady kno wn to us
thr oug h Sir
Jam es Ale xan der 's " Exp edi tion of Dis
covery into
the Int erio r of Afr ica " ( 8vo., two vol
s., Lon don ,
1838), and tha t some inte res ting specim
ens of the ir
lite ratu re had been giv en by him in tha
t wo rk; but
tha t Fab les form so extensive a mass of
trad itio nar y
Nat ive lite ratu re am ong st the N ama
qua, has first
been bro ugh t to ligh t by Mr . Kro nle in's
communica-
tions. The fact of such a lite rary cap
acit y exi stin g
among a nat ion whose me nta l qualific
ations it has
been usual to estimate at the lowest stan
dar d, is of
the gre ates t imp orta nce ; and tha t
the ir lite rar y
act ivit y (in con trad isti nct ion to the gen
era l cha rac ter
* Cisgariepian, from the Nam a poi nt of view, i e., to the

Nor th of the Ora nge Riv er.
PREFACE. ::S:lll
of Native literature among ;regro nation8) hn een

employed almost in the same direction a that which
had been taken by our own earliest literature, :i:.; in
itself of great significance.
Some questions of no trifling importance and in-
terest are raised by the appearance of such n un-L
lookecl~for mine of literary lore, particularly as to th

originality of these Fable·. Whether they are indeed
the r2al offspring of the desert, and can be con. iclered
as truly indigenous Native literattu·e, or whether they
have been either purloined from the superior whjte
race, or at least brought into exi:;;tence by the Btim-
ulus which contact with the latter gaye 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 PREFA CE.
nations, or whethe r they have only sprung up recentl y

among the Hotten tots from foreign seed-i n either
case the disposition of the Hotten tots 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 gTeater congeniality between the Hotten tot
and Europe an mind than we find between the latter
and any of the black races of Africa .
This similar ity in the disposition of nations can
in itself indeed hardly be considered as a valid proof
of common ancestr y ; but if there be other ground s
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 literar y 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 earlies t acquai nt-
ance of Europe ans with these parts, and occasional
stray guesses (for example, in R. Moffat's "~Ession
ary Labours and Scenes in Southe rn Africa ," 1842,
p. 6), have already for some time pointed to a North
Mrica n origin for the Hotten tots.
It is, however, only within the last dozen years
PREF ACE.
that this has been established as a proved, and, I be-

lieve to most obser-vers, an, at first, astoni hing fact.
I well remem ber still the feeling of mo t curio u
intere st with which I regar ded Knud en' tran btion
of Luke 's Gospel (vol. i., Ko. 15 of your Libra r r),
when, in April 1850, it was sent me by the then
Inspe ctor of the Rhen ish ~fission House, the Rev J.
C. W allmann, for the purpose of ascer tainin g wheth er
the langu age was in any way akin to those of the
surro undin g black nations, and whether, on that ac-
count, an alread y acquired acquaintance with any of
the Hotte ntot dialects would rende r it easier for a
Missionary to maste r one of the Negr o or Kafir
tongues.*
* I give here some extrac ts from Mr. W allma nn's letter,

dated Barm en, 13th April, 1850, which was the only help
of a gramm atical or lexica l natm· e then availa ble for me in
my study of this Nama transl ation of Luke' s Gosp el:-
"I transm it hereb y Luke' s Gospel in N amaqu a, . .
which I can lend you, however, only for four weeks, as I
have alread y previo usly promi sed it to some one else.
" Shoul d yom· labou rs permi t it, I wish to reque st you to
make a little trial wheth er the N am aqua is somew hat
relate d to the South Africa n family of Langu ages. For
the prese nt a mere negati ve decisi on on this point is all
that is wante d, and I should like to have very soon the
opinio n of some good philol ogist regard ing it. Moffat
XVl 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 N amaq_ua 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 N amaqua. 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 acco~ts, for his guesses fall at once upon the
Chinese. According to communications from our Mis-
siOnary Knudsen, the N amaqua language seems well
formed. He mentions a.s peTsonal pronouns :-
Tita saaz ~yb sad a sako xyku
I thou he we you they
(sats) (! /eip) (/ /eilcu)
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."
·7c 7
1
(incl.) Salce lee lca~wulf.'e
mascu1.
(exc1.) SL e tee lcauauke ~
(incl.) Sase lee lcautase 1 f
(excl.) Sise lee lcautase 5 em.
(incl.) Sada lee tana-lclwida} nom.
.
(excl.) Szda lee tana-lclwid a
(incl.) Salclwm l.. e hmauklwma} dU al . "'=' ·ul .
. ill<ouC
1
(exc .) Szlclwm lee k:auaulclwma
..
PREFACE. X ll
would lead me; and being then mostly occupied with

the study of the Setshuana and kindred languacrc -
which seemed to me of paramount intere -t for com-
parative philology- ! did not at fir t giv-e ur cliviclccl
attention to the peru al of this Cluiou \Olume. I
remarked very soon, however, a striku1g . imilarity
between the Hottentot signs of gender and tho .. e of
the Coptic language; but for some time I con. iderod
it as purely accidental, which may bo , cen from a
letter of mine regarding this subject, publi ·heel by
Mr. W allmann, in "Berichten cler Rheini chen }Ii -
(incl.) Saam lLe kautama} dua. l £em.

(excl.) Siim lee kctutama
(incl.) Saam lee tana-lclwima} du al . com.
(excl.) Siim lee tana-lclwima
"The second person of the plural is said to have not more
than half as many distinctions; and the thu·d person plnrn.l
has only the following :-
x ylcu lee leauau,qa-mascu l.
x.yte lee lcautate-fem .
xyn lee tana -lelwina-com.
xylelw lee lcauaulclut-dual. mascul.
x yra lee lcautara-dual. fern .
xyra lee tana-lelwira--dual. com.
"You will therefore oblige me by looking into the
Namaqua Luke, and by having the kindness to write me
your opinion r ega,rding it ."
b
XVlll PREF A CE.
sions-Gesellschaft" (Reports of the Rhen ish Mission-

ary Society, 1850, No. 24, if I am not mista ken in
the numb er).
Soon, however, what were at first mere isolated
facts, became links, in a chain of evidence, showing
that all those Sexde notin g Lang uages which were then
know n to us in Africa, Asia, and Europe, are members
of one large family, of which the primi tive type has,
in most respects, been best preserved to us in the
Hotte ntot language_
It was even as early as the end of 1850 that I
could write to Mr. Wall man n-" This langu age (the
Hotte ntot) is to me at this mom ent of great er intere st
than any other. The facts, of which once before I
have given you some account, have now so increased
upon me, and offer such stron g analogies, that there
is no furth er doubt in my own mind that not only
the Coptic but also the Semitic, and all other lan-
guages of Africa (as Berbe r, the Galla dialect, &c.,
&c.) in which the distinction of the masculine and
feminine gender pervades the whole gram mar, are
of common origin ."
Part of the result of these researches was then pub-
lished in my dissertation, ''De Nomi num Generibus
Lingu arum Mricm, Austr alis, Oopticm, Semi ticaru m
PREFACE.
.
XlX
aliarumque Sexualium" (8vo., Bonn, 6th Augu t,

1851, vol. i., No. 1 of your Library) .
I was at that time not aware- nor ha it come to
my knowledge till within the la t few weck~-that
on the lOth Jtme, 1851, Dr. J. C. An.ur o_-, in com-
municating to the Syro-Egyptian SoC;iety. orne ob .. er-
vations on the analysis of languages, with a pecial
reference to those of South Africa, had tated "That
the signs of gender were almost identical in th
N amaqua 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 . LoGA.T), t
* Rep01·t of the Correspondence and Paper read at the

General Meeting of the SJ1·o-Egyptian Society, Session of
1851 and 1852. Read at the Anniversary Meeting, held
April 20th, 1852, 8vo. pp. 6, 8.
t " Ethnology of the Indo-Pacific Islands." By J. R.
Logan, Esq., Ron. 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. [From the Journal of the In-
dian Archipelago and Eastern Asia, June and December,
1853, to December, 1854.J Singapore : Printed by Jakob
Baptist, 8vo., pp. 229, 294, sec. 6. The Semitico-Africa.n
b2
·xx P REFAC E.
was pointed out to me by. your Excellency. You

also suggested this name of "Sexde noting Langu ages."
B ut it is superfluous for me to say any thing of what
you have done for the advancement of African, as
well as Austra lian ancl Polynesian, philology.
It has been justly remark ed by our learned friend,
Mr. JusTICE WATER l\IIEYER , that the natura l propen -
sities of animals in all parts of the world being ·so
much alike, Fables intende d 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 Rafir imagin ation seems not at all incline d
to the formation of this class of fictitious tales, though
they have otherwise a prolific Native literatu re of a
more or less historic and legend ary character. This
contras t to what we find among the Hotten tots ap-
pears not to be accidental, but merely a natura l con-
sequence of that difference of structu re which dis-
tinguishes these two classes of languages, embrac ing
respectively the dialects of the Hotten tots on the one
Langua ges, viz. :-1. General Charact ers, p. 229; 2. Egyptia n,

p. 248 ; 3. Hottent ot, p. 248 ; 4. Shemo- Hamitic , or .A.ssyro -
Berber, p. 259 .
PREFAC E. XXl
hand, and those of the Ka£.Ts and their kindred na-

tions on the other; in the former (the IIott ntot),
as in all other really Sexclenoting Lanrrlwge··, the
gramma tical divisions of the nouns into gencler. , which
do not tally exactly with any di.·tinction ob rY c1 in
nature, has been brought into a certain reference to
the difference of sex; and on that account this eli -
tinction of sex seems in some way to extend even to
inanima te beings, whereby a tendenc y to the per-
sonification of impersonal objects is produced, which
in itself is likely to lead the mind towards a. cribing
reason and other human attribut es to irration al 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 explana tion of celes-
tial and other element ary phenomena in place of
their real cause.
:Niythology is, in its origin, most general ly either
a mere figure of speech or a poetical explana tion
suggest ed by the gramma tical form or etymological
m8aning of words, indicating certaig striking natural
phenomena. In the primary stage of their produc-
.
X XIV
.
PREJ!AOE~
we could here discuss fully the origin ality or date of

composition of these Fables, and all the many ques-
tions involved therei n.
The modern origin of some of the Fables, as, for
instance, that of The Cock (12), Fish-S tealin g (8),
The Judgm ent 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), indica te clearly
a Europ ean origin . Others, however, have strong
claims to be regard ed not merel y as genuin e produ cts
of the Hotte ntot mind, but even as portio ns of a tTa-
dition ary Nativ e literat ure, anteri or in its origin to
the adven t of Europ eans.
That the latter is a true view of the subject
becomes perha ps the more conclusive by the inti-
mate relations in which, among the Hotte ntots,
Myths still stand to Fable s; 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 Fable s as Myth s; but we may
consid~r these as analogous to the first germs whence
sprun g those splendid mythologies which ha-ve :filled
with deep devotional feelings the hearts of many
millions among the most intelli gent races of the
earth.
PREFACE.
This higher flight of the imaginatiYe facul ~·

which the Sexclenoting nations po sess (throu~·h the
stimulus of this personification of imper onal thing.:,
consequent upon the grammatical structuTe of th ir
languages), and what it had been to t 1om, be-
comes the more eTI.dent if we compare their lite-
rature with that of the Kafirs and other black tribe.
of South Africa.
As the grammatical structure of languages, poken
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 tho
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 thr
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 Ka£r and Negro native literature

will also have their own interest; it is therefore to
be hoped that time and cixcumstances may soon
allow us to publish also the other portions of South
Mrican native literatme extant in manuscript 1n
your library.
Among these we have principally to mention, as
new contributions (received after yom departme),
twenty-thre e pieces in o Tyi-herer6, or the Damara
language, as wTitten down by natives themselves,
copied by the Rev. J. RATH (Rhenish MissionaTy, for-
merly in Damara L and, now at Sarepta Knils River),
and accompanie d with a German translation by
.
hliD. ~
* Mr. Rath's Manuscript consists of sixty-one pages, with

double columns, foolscap folio. It contains the following
p1eces :-
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.
PREFACE. xxvu
Among these pieces there are seven gho t toric ,

four accounts of transformation of men or anilnal ,
eleven other household tales, one legend, and one fable.
This last piece (No. 11, pp. 27, 29) i probably of
Hottentot origin. I have therefore thought it best
to give it a place in this little book (No. 14), wher
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 Um·easonable 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.
xx:vm 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-herer6 text. As a specimen of o Tyi-
herer6 household tales, I have given Rath'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-Yolk; N otizzen (Manuscript) H. 0.
Knudsen." 4to., p. 12. Its contents are, Bushman Land,
PREFACE. XX !X
script supplied also a legend of The Origin of Dif-

ference in ~Iodes of Life between Hottentot and
Bushmen, which we do not yet possess in the IIot-
tentot language.
To make our available stock of Nama Hottentot
literature quite complete, three fables and four tales
p. 3; the different kinds of Rain, p. 3; Bethany (in Great

N amaqualand), p. 3; the Damara, p. 4; the Grassy Plain,
p. 4; the Diseases, pp. 4, 5; Birdsnests, p. 5; Maniage
and Wedding among the N amaqua, 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 Reckoning Relationship,
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 Phq:mician 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 N amaquasprache
(Manuscript), H. 0 . Knudsen." 4to. pp. 29. After a few
general introductory remarks, and a short explan9Jtion 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-mat ter, far ex-
ceed Longfellow's "Hiawatha " in adaptation to the
general taste.
How mLwh Native productions gain when repre-
sented skilfully and properly, your admirable work
on "Polynesia n 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. XXXl
mainly ,to the help of one who naturally take the

greatest interest in all my pur uits.
In writing the last lines of thi Preface, the interest
which I feel for these Hottentot Fable i almo t
fading away before those rich treasure 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 mo t fer-
vent wishes for your well-doing, and our sincere hope
of seeing you, at no distant day, again in the m1dst
of us.
Believe me,
My dear Sir George,
Yours most faithfully,
W. H. I. BLEEK.
CAPETOWN, April, 1863.

I.
JAC KAL FAB LES .
1. THE LION'S DEFEA T.

(The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir G. Grey's
Library, G. Kri:inlcin's Manuscri pt, pp . 19, 20.)
THE wild animals, it is said, were once ussomblod

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 conjura tion)-
* The little Fox, in Nama the !Kamap, a small kind of
Jackal, who is a swift runner. The Jackal's name is
1Gir£p. (The I is the dental and the ! the cerebral click ;
vide Notes to Fables 23 and 27, pp. 47, 62.)
B
2 JACKAL FABLES.
" 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-
" lVfy boy, thou son of the lean ~VIrs. Fox, thou wilt ~
never be caught."
Truly the Lion was thus beaten in running by the

little Fox.
3
2. THE HUNT OF THE LION A1.~D JACKA L.

(The Oi'iginal, in the Hottentot langu:1ge, is :in SiT G. Grey'"
Library, G. Kri:inlein's Manuscri pt, pp. 18, 19.)
THE Lion a:1d the Jackal, it is said, were one day

lying in wait for elands. The Lion shot (with th
bow) and missed, but the JEwkal hit and sang out,
'' Hah ! Hah !" The Lion said., " No, you did not
shoot anythin g. 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, unknow n to the Lien, hit his nose so that th
blood ran on the spoor of the elands, anJ 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, thinkin g that it was elancls' blood, and
only when he had gone some distance did he find out
that he had been deceived . He then returned on the ·
B 2
4 JACKAL FABLES.
J ackal'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 ~ur
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,
say1ng:
"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.
5
3. THE LION'S SHARE.
(From a German original Manuscript in Sir G. Grey's Library,

-viz., H. C. Knudsen's" Notes on the IIottentots," pp. 11, 12.)
THE Lion and the Jackal went together a-hunting.

They shot with arrows. The Lion shot fir t, 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 cmud 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 JACKA L FABLE S.
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:
" Yon rascal ! " The Jackal rose quickly again,
complained of the rough handlin g, and asked, "Wha t
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 childre n of the Lion
saw him, began to jump, and clappin g their hands, cried
out, " There comes Uncle with flesh !" The Jackal
threw, grumb ling, 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 tho same,
but he forbade her, and said that the Lion would
himsel f 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,
'IHE LI0.1. ~, S SIIARE. 7
to whom he said, ".Ah! what a ·wife you have got.

Look here, how she scratched my face 'vhcn I told
her that she should come with u.. Yon mu -t
fetch her yourself; I cannot bring her." The Lion
went home very angry. Then tho Jackal said,
"Quick, let us build a tower." They heaped. stone
upon stone, stone upon stone, stone upon . tone;
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 child.Ten, 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. T'hen aloud he orders his wife to pre-
pare a good piece, but aside he tells her to make a
8 JACK AL FAB LES.
stone hot, and to cover it with fat. Then he drew

up the Lion once more, and, complaining that
he is very heav y to hold, he tells him to open his
mouth, whereupon he throws the hot stone down his
thro at. Whe n the Lion has devoured it, he entre ats
and requests him to run as quic kly as possible to the
water.
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4. THE J .ACK.AL'S BRIDE.

Library, G. Kronlein's Manuscript, pp. 7, 8.)
THE Jackal, it is said, married the Hyena, nnd 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 £xed
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 clown. 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
10 JACKAL FABLES .
the £.Te, he said, "Open your mouth." Then he put

into his mouth a hot piece of quartz which had been
boiled togethe r 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 b.ride in her brookaross chess. The Hyena,
believing that it was the Jackal, saicl-
"You tawny rogue! have you not played at beating

long.en ough r
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 e.·cape.
.
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5. THE WHITE l\IAN Aj_TD THE f'-'- T\.KE.

(The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir G. 'r~y'
Library, G. Kronlein's 1hnuscript, pp. 5, 6.)
A WHITE hlan, it is said, met a Snake upon \','hom a

large stone had fallen and covered her, so thu.t she
could not rise. The Vhite ]fan lifted the , tone off
the Snake, but when he had done so, sno \Vanted to
bite him. The White :I'Yian said, "Stop! let us both
go first to some wise people." They went to the
Hyena, and the White ~ian asked him, "Is it right
that the Snake should want to bite me, though I
helped her, when she lay under a stone and coulrl not
rise ?''
The Hyena (who thought he would get his shure 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
li!I:an 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 FABLES.
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 J\1:an covered
her with the stone ; but although she exerted herself
very much, she conld not rise. Then the \Vhite :Jian
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 S. .\JIE

FABLE.
(From a German original Manuscript in Sir G. Grry's Library,
H. C. Knudsen's " Notes on the Hottentots," p. 11.)
A DuTCHMAN was walking by himself, ancl saw a

Snake lying under a large stone. The Snake implored
his help; but when she hacl become free, she said,
"Now I shall eat you."
The ~fan 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 Hottent ot language, is m Sir G. G1·ey's
Library, G. Kronlein 's Manuscript, pp. 30, 31.)
THJ:!] HYEN A.
Thou who :makest thy escape from the tumult !
Thou wide, roomy tree !
Thou who gettest thy spaTe (though with trouble !)
Thou cow who art strained at the hocks ! *
Thou who hast a plump l'Ound knee!
Thou the nape of whose neck is clothed with hui:t·!
Thou with the skin drippin g as if half-tan ned !
ThuG >Vho hast a round, distend ed neck !'
Thou eater of the N amaqua ,
Thou big-too thed one !
THE Jackal and the Hyena were togeth er, it is said,

when a white cloud rose. The Jackal ascended upon
it, and ate of the cloud. as if it were fat.
Wben he wanted to come down, he said to the
Hyena, "My sister, as I am going to divide mth
:Ji: "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. L.A.YA.RD.
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, ")Iy greyish
brother, now catch me well." The greyi. h rogue said
to his fTiend, "J\Iy sister, I shall catch thee well.
Come therefor~ down."
He held up his hands, and she came down. from the
cloud, and when she was ncar, the J acl~al cried out
(painfully jumpin g to one side), "1\Iy sister, do not
take it ill. Oh me! oh me! .A thorn has nricked me,
.J.
and sticks in me." Thus she fell down from uboYc,

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?
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-STEAL IKG. 17
" Throw it into the waggon," said the driver, and
the Jackal was thrown in.
Thewaggon travelled on through amoonligh tnight,
and all the while the Jackal was throwing the fi h out
into the road ; he then jumped out himself, ancl se-
cured a great prize. But a stupid olcl 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.
Accordingl y, when the next waggon.came from the
sea, the Hyena stretched herself out in the road.
""\Vhat 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 !"
c
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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 J A OKAL 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 immediately accused the Jackal of having
eaten it.
"Look at the Hyena's tail," said the rogue, "and
..vou 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 ILLNE SS.
(The original, in the Hottento t language, i in Sir G. Grey':'

Library, G. Kronlein 's Manuscr ipt, 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 sec him
did not turn back. Thereupon, he was accused by
the Hyena , who said, "Thou gh I 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 brough t
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, whethe r and
what medicine would be good for my uncle agains t
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
c 2
20 JACKAL FABLES.
will recover.' The Hyena is one who does not care

for m.r uncle's sufferings.''
The Lion followed his advice, got hold of the
Hyena, d.Tew 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, i in Sir G. · Grey's

Library, G . 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 kind." The Jackal said,
"Give it me at once ! Otherwise, I shall fty up to
you." Then she threw one down to him.
He came back another day, aud 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 fty 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 fty ?"
Then, with the admonition to give no more, he went
away.
22 JACKAL FABLES .
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 : "Broth er 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 COOK.

(The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir G. Grey'
Library, G. Kronlein'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 LEOP ARD AND THE RAM .
(From Sir James E. Alexan der's "Exped ition of Discovery into

pp.
the Interio r of Africa," vol. ii. 247, 250.)
A LEOP ARD was return ing home from huntin g on

one occasion, when he lighte d on the kraal of a Ram.
Now the Leopa rd had never seen a Ram before, and
accordingly, appro aching submissively, he said, u Good
day, friend ! what may your name be?"
The other, in his gruff voice, and strikin g his breast
with his forefoot, said, u I am a Ram. Who are
you?"
u A Leopa rd," answered the other, more dead than
alive; and then, taking leave of the Ram, he ran

home as fast as he could.
A Jacka l lived at the same place as the Leopa rd
did, and the latter going to him, said, " Frien d 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, u I am a Ram! "
u What a foolish Leopa rd you are !" cried the
THE LEOP.fllD AND THE 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 Ram 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,
notwithstandin g 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.
TORT OISE FABL ES.
THE SPRINGBO K (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 book.
14. THE ELEPHAN T AND THE TORTOISE .
(The original, in the o Tyi-herer6 or Damara language, is in the

Library of Sir G. Grey, 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
Rajn 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, "Vulture ! cast lots to make
28 TORTOISE 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
There came the Gemsbok, and said to the Tortoise,
"Give me water!" The Tortoise answered, "The
There came the Wildebeest, and aid, "Give me
water!" The Tortoise said, "The water belong to
the Elephant."
There came the Roodebok, and said to the Tortoi e,
"Give me water!" The Tortoi e answered, "The
THE ELEPHA NT 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 Tortoi e,
"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 GIRA FFE AND THE TORT OISE.
(The original, in the Hottent ot language, is in Sli· G. Grey's

THE GIRAF FE.

Thou who descend est river by river,
Thou buTnt thornbush ( 1= a1•o) !
Thou blue one,*
Who appeare st like a distant thornhi ll
fuJI 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,
* " Becaus e the Giraffe is said to give blue ashes when
burnt." -KRoN LEIN.
THE GIRAFFE AND THE TORTOISE. 1
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 tho
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-
"Have 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.

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 htmt 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 devqured them.
III.
.,
BABOON FABLES .
Heretse!
Heretse!
Thou thin-armed one,
Who hast thin hands !
Thou smooth buhush mat,
Thou whose neck is bent.
Thou who art made so as to be lifted up (upon a tree),
Wb.o liftest thyself up.
Thou who wilt not die even behind t!wt hill
Which is yet beyond those hills,
That lie on the other side of this far-distant hill.*
17. THE JUDG:Th1ENT OF THE BABOON.

(The original, in the Hottentot language, of this little N am aqua-
land Fable, is in Sil· G. Grey's Library, G. Kronlcin's Manuscript,
pp. 33, 35.)
ONE day, it is said, the following story happened.

The :M:ouse had torn the clothes of Itkler :(the tailor),
* With reference to the Baboon's great power of dis-

tancing ills pursuers.
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34 BABOON FABLES.
who then went to the Baboon, and accused the ~fouse

with these words : -
"In this manner I come to thee :-The l\fouse 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 W oocl throws the blame on the
Fire, and says, 'The Fire did it ;' the Fire says, 'I
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 ari ·en
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 a. sembled them for
trial. Then they made the arne 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 puni. h-
ing them, save through making them puni. h each
other ; he therefore said-
" Iou e, giYe Itlder . ati"faction ."
The ~louse, however, pleaded not guilty. But the
Baboon aiel, "Cat, bite the :~\louse." She did o.
· He then put the same question to the Cat, and when
THE JUDGMENT OF THE BABOO .,, 35
she exculpated herself, the Baboon called to the Dog,
"Here, bite the Oat."
In this manner the Baboon questioned them all, on
after the other, but they each denied the charge. Th n
he addressed the following words to them, and aiel-
" W oocl, beat the Dog.
Fire, burn the Wood.
Water, quench the Fire.
Elephant, drink the \Vater.
Ant, bite the Elephant in hi mo t tender part. .''
They did so, and since that clay they cannot any
longer agree with each other.
The Ant enters into the Elephant's n1.ost tender
parts, and bites him.
The Elephant swaUows the Water.
The Water quenches the Fire.
The Fire constunes the Wood.
The Wood beats the Dog.
The Dog bites the Oat.
And the Oat the J\tfouse.
Through this judgment Itkler got sat1sfaction, 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 reclress."
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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 the privilege of walking erect
through this foolish judgment.(?)
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18. THE LION Al~D THE BABOON.

(The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir G. Grc.' '~
Library, G. K1·onlein's 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, i in , 'ir G. Grey'.

Library, G. :Kronlein's Mariusm·jpt, p. 17.)
- -----
THE ZEBRA.
Thou who art till·own at by the great (shepherd) boys,

Thou whose head the (ki.Trie's) till·ow misses!
Thou dap.pled 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.
Wb.en he was grown up, and they were in want of
water, they brought him to the water. Tho Baboons,
40 BABOO N FABLE S.
seeing this, came, as they formerly were 11secl to do,

into theli· 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-e ater's child! "
The Baboon said to the Stallion, " Please open thy
mouth, that I may see what thou li\est 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 Stallio n's tongue.
The Stallion on this became a:ngry, t?ok 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, lament ing, "I, my mother 's chilt1,
I , the gum-eater, am outdone by this milk-e ater!"
THE ZEBRA.
Thou //ari shrub (i. e., tough shrub, Dutch,

"critdo rn "),
Thou who art of · trong smell,
Thou who rollest always in soft gTound,
Whose body r~tains the dust,
THE ZEBRA STALLIOS. 41
Thou split kirrie of the shepherd boy. ,
Thou split knob of a kirrie.
Thou who dri\est away by thy neighing
The htmter who seeketh thee.
Thou who crossest all ri\ers
As if they were but one.
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20. THE LOST OHILD.- [A TALE.]

(FTom Sir James E. Alexander's " Exp§dition 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 surrounde d 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 him in vain; he was nowhere
to be seen; the baboons also had left the neighbou r-
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
THE LOST CHILD. 43
approached, the baboon took up the boy, and cam-
pered off with him ; but, after a close plu uit, the boy
was recovered. He seemed quite wild, and tried to
run away to the baboons again; however, he wa
brought back to the kraal, and when he recovered hi
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 rai in ,
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 SHEP HERD .- [A TALE.]

(From Sir James E . .Alexander's "Expedi tion of Discover y into
THE N amaquas say that, not long ago, a man had

brough t 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 guarde d
the milk of the others from the children. It also got
a little meat from its master. It held the office of
shephe rd 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. Grc.) 's

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 .
thinkin g that at the kraal somethi ng 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 stealthil y 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 clay, 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, "Nothin g can' be .·aid of that matter. "
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23. THE LION WHO THOUGHT HIMSELF

WISER THAN HIS :MOTHER.
(The original, in the Hottentot bnguage, i in Sir G. Grcy':-
IT is said that when the Lion and jgurikhoisip* (the

Only man), togetlier with the Baboon, the Buffalo,
and other friends, were playing one day at a certain
game, there was a thunderstorm and rain at ~u1·o
xaarns. t The Lion and jgurikhoisip began to
quarrel. "I shall run to the rain-field," said the Lion.
jGurikhoisip 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 j 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."-
TINDALL.
t The =!= is the palatal click, described in note to Fal::>le 24·,
p. 55, a,ncl x is the German ck
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 pinchin g 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, ta~e care of him who
has pinchin g weapon s!" 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. Mter they
had finished they wallowed. Then also the man
drank; and., when he had done drinking , the Lion
came out of the bush. The clogs surroun ded him, as
his mother had foretold, and he was speared by
jgurikhoisip. Just as he became aware that he was
speared, the dogs drew him down again. In this
manner he grew faint. vVhile he was in this state,
/ gurikhoisip said. to the dogs, " Let him alone now,
that he may go and. be taught by his 1\fother." So
the dogs let him go. They left him, and. went home
as he lay there. The same night he walkecl towards
home, but whilst he was on the way his strenath
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 hi wailing,
and said-
" My Son, this is the thing which I ha.vc 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-stainec;l nostrils !
Son of her who drinks pit-water,
Thou water~drinker !''
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50
24. THE LION WHO TOOK A WOM AN'S

SHAP E.
(The original, in the Hottento t language, is in Sir G. Grey's
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, "Thro w it away and seek for other "-(sw eet-
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 £nd them. She went therefore down to tho
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
tmcle (the Lion) and I alone may drink."
She asked again : "Hare , draw water for me that
THE LION WHO TOOK A WO:JIAN'S SHAPE. 51
I may drink." But the Hare made the arne repl '·
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. Mter 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:-
"~fy mother, she would not let me seek herbs,

Herbs of the field, food from the field. Roo !"
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 FABLE S.
and the Lion jumpe d upon her. She then addressed

him:
" ~1yUncle ! it is morning, and time to rise;

Pray, rise from me !"
He rose, of course, and they htmte d each other again,

till the Lion fell a second time. When she jumpe d
upon him, he said :
" J\1y Aunt ! it is morni ng, and time to rise ;

Pray, rise from me ! "
They rose again and htmte d after each other. The

Wom an 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, taking care, however, to leave her

skin whole, which he put on, togeth er 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, ":Th.Iy sister, pour some milk out
for me." She answered, " I hall not pour you out
any." Then the child addressed their ltioth er:
" Mama, do pour out some for me." The ~Iother of
the kraal said, " Go to your sister, and let her give
THE LION WHO TOOK A WOJIA N' S SHAPE . 53
it to you!" The little child said again to her i tor,

"Pleas e, pour out for me!" She, howcYer, repeated
her refusal, saying, "I will not do it." Then the
JHother of the kraal said to the little one, " I refused
to let her (the elder sister) seek herbs in the fi ld, and
I do not know what may haYe happened ; go there-
fore to the Hare, and ask him to potu' out for you."
So the Hare gave her some mill{; 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 miU: out of it. vVhilst
they were dojng this, some milk was spilt on the little
one's hand, and the elder sister licked it up with her
tpngue, the roughness of which drew blood ; this, too,
the Woma n licked up.
The little child complained to her Mothe r: ":Mama,
sister pricks holes in me, and sucks the blood." The
Mothe r said, "With what lion's nature your sister
went the way that I forbade her, and returne d, 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
54 LIO N FAB LES .
do you two stan d before the cow." Her husb and said
,
"W hat has come over her that the cows refuse her
?
These are the same cows she always milk s." The
Mot her (of the kraa l) said, "W hat has happ ened
this
even ing? These are cows whic h she always milk
s
with out assistance. Wh at can have affected her that
she comes home as a woman with a lion 's natu re?"
The elde r dau ghte r then said to her Mother, "
I
shall not milk the cows." Wit h those words she
sat
down. The Mot her said therefore to the Har
e,
"Br ing me the bamboos, that I may milk . I do
not
know wha t has come over the girl ."
So the J\1other hers elf milk ed the cows, and whe
n
she had done so, the Har e brou ght the bamboos to
the
you ng wife's house, where her husb and was, but
she
(the wife) did not give him (her husband) any thin
g
to eat. But whe n at nigh t time she fell asleep, they
saw some of the Lion 's hair , which was han ging
out
where he had s1ipped on the woman's skin, ancl they
cried, "Ve rily ! this is quit e anot her being. It is
for
this reason that the cows refused to be millmd."
The n the people of the kraa l bega n to brea k up
the hut in whi ch the Lion lay asleep. Wh
en
they took off the mat , they said (conjm'ing them
),
" If thou art favourably incl ined to me, 0 mat , give
_the sound 'saw a'" (meaning, mak ing no noi e).
THE LION WHO TOO K A WOM AN'S SHA.J?E.
55
To the poles (on which the hut rested) they aid,

" If thou art favourably inclined to me, 0 pole, thou
mus t give the sound =t-gara."*
They addressed also the bamboos and the bed-skins
in a similar manner.
Thus grad ually and noiselessly they removed the hut
and all its contents. Then they took btmches of gras ,
put them over the Lion, and ligh ting them, said, "If
thou art favourably inclined to me, 0 fire, thou mu t
flare up, 'boo boo,' before thou comest to the hear t."
So the fire flared up whe n it came towards the
hear t, and the hear t of the Wom an jump ed 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), "Ho w nicely I have eaten
your daug hter ." The \Voman answered, " You have
also now a comfortable plac e!" * *-' *
Now the Wom an took the first milk ·Of as man y
cows as calved, and put it into the calabash where her
daug hter 's hear t was; the calabash increased in size,
and in proportion to this the girl grew agai n inside it.
* f. Indic ates the palat al click, whic h is soun ded by

ce as
press ing the tip of the tongu e, with as flat a sm-fa
e at the gums ,
possible, again st the term inati on of the palat
and with draw ing it sudd enly and forcibly.
56 LIO N FAB LES .
One day, when the Mother (of the kra al)

wen t out
to fetch wood, she said to the Har e, "B
y the tim e
tha t I come back you mu st have eve ryth
ing nice and
clean." Bu t dur ing her Mo the r's absenc
e, the gir l
cre pt out of the calabash, and put the
hut in good
order, as she had been used to do in form
er days, and
said to the Har e, " Wh en mo the r com
es bac k and
asks, ' Wh o has done these thin gs? ' you
mu st say, 'I,
the Har e, did the m.' " Mt er she had
clone all, she
hid her self on the stage.*
Wh en the Mo the r (of the kraal) came
home, she
said, " Ha re, who has done these thin gs
? The y loolr
jus t as the y used wh en my dau ght er did
the m." The
Ha re said, "I did tho thin gs. " Bu
t the :l\1other
would not believe it, and looked at
the calabash.
Seeing it was empty, she searched the stag
e and found
her dau ght er. The n she embraced and
kissed her ,
and from tha t day the gir l stayed wit h
her mo the r,
and did eve ryth ing as she was wo nt in form
er tim es;
but she now remained unm arri ed.
* The stag e is tha t app arat us in the bac kgr oun d of the
hut (bu ilt of mat s) opp osit e the doo
r, upo n whi ch the
H otte nto ts han g thei r bam boo s, bag s
of skins, and oth er
thin gs, and und er whi ch the wom en gen
eral ly kee p the ir
mat s.
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25 . .A WO~I.AN TR.ANSF OR1IED INTO .A LION.

[.A TALE.]
(FTom Sir James E . .Alexander's "Expeditio n of Discovery into

ONCE upon a time a certain Hottento t 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
!fan 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 vVoman answered, " You will be afraid."
"No, no," said the ]..fan ; " 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
58 LION FABL ES.
a perfect Lion rushed into the plain. It bounded and

crept amon g the bushes towards the wild horse s, and
sprin ging on one of them, it fell, and the Lion lapped
its blood. The Lion then came back to where the
child was cryin g, and the man called from the tree,
"Eno ugh, enoug h! 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 rema in
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 prope r shape, took up the child. The :Man
descended and parto ok of the horse's flesh, but ne\er
again asked the Wom an to catch game for him.
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26. THE LION ~D THE BUSHM:.AN.

[A TALE.]
(From Sir 'James E . .Alexander's "Expedi tion of Discovery into

the Interior of Africa," vol. ii. p. 51.)
A BUSHl\1:AN 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 ilis-
pute the prize with hiill. The Bushm an being near
a convenient tree, threw down his arms, and climbed
for safety to an upper hranch. The Lion, allowing
the wounded zebra to pass on, now turned his whole
attenti on towards the Bushman, and walkin g round
and round the tree, be ever and anon growled and
looked up at him. At length the Lion lay clown at
the foot of the tree, and kept watch all night. To-
wards mornin g sleep overcame the hithert o wakeful
Bushman, and he dream t that he had fallen into the
Lion's mouth. Startin g from the effects of his dream,
he lost his hold, and, falling from the branch, he
60 LION FAB LES.
aligh ted heavily on the Lion ; on which the monster,

thus unexpectedly saluted, ran off with a loud roar,
and the Bush man , also takin g to his heels in a dif-
ferent direction, escaped in safety.
v.
VA RIO US FA BL ES.
THE ELEPH ANT.

Thou tall acacia full of branche s,
Thou ebony tree with leaves spread round about.
27. HOW A NAl\IA WOMAN OUTW ITTED

THE ELEPH ANTS .

Library, G. Kronlein 's Manuscr ipt, pp. 1, 3.)
AN Elepha nt, it is said, was marrie d 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 marrie d into this kraal, has a wether been
slaughtered also for me ? " And her blind mother-
* Vide Note to Fable 24, p. 56.

62 VAR IOU S FAB LES .
in-la w answered, "Um ph! thin gs are said by

the
wife of my eldest son, which she never said before."
Thereupon the Elep hant , who had been in the field
,
arrived, and smelling something, rubbed agai nst
the
house. "Ha .," said his wife, "wh at I should not have
done formerly, I do now. On wha t day did you
slau ghte r a wether for me? " The n the mother-
in-
law said to him : "As she says thin gs which she
did
not say (before), do it now."
In this man ner a weth er was slau ghte red (for her),
which she roasted whole, and then , in the same nigh
t
(after supper), asked her mother-in-law the following
questions :-"H ow do you brea the when you sleep
the sleep· of life ? (ligh t sleep, half-conscious.) And
how when you sleep the sleep of dea th?" (deep sleep
.)
The n the mother-in-law said, "Um ph, an evening
full of conversation! Wh en we sleep the leep
of
death, we brea the thus : 'sui sui! ' and when we sleep
the sleep of life we breathe thus : 'Xo u !awaba I Xou
!awa ba!' " *
Thus the wife made ever ythi ng righ t whilst they
fell asleep. Then she listened to thei r noring, and
* X j s the Germ an clt, and ! the cer bral click

of the
Hott ento t lang uage , whic h is " solm ded by send
ing up the
tip of the tong ue agai nst the roof of the pala te,
and with -
draw ing it forci bly and sudd enly ."-T r ..?DAL L.
THE NAMA WOMAN AND THE ELEPHAKTS. 63
when they slept thus, sui sui, she rose and said to her
two brothers, " The sleep of death is over thorn, lot
us make ready." They rose and went out, ancl she
broke up the hut* (to carry away all that she coulcl),
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.
64 VARIOUS FABLES.
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 bnguage, is in Sir G. Grey's

Library, G. Kronlein's Manuscript, pp. 15, lG.)
COPPER and Weather, it is said, were man and \\rUe,

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 : -
t<''
66 VARIOUS FABLES.
" The Copper-Weathe r 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 son
had been killed), they combined and became a fire,
and as a fiery rain they burnt the kraal and all it
inhabitants.
VI.
SUN AND MOON FAB LES .
29. WHY HAS THE JACKA L A LONG

BLACK STRIP E ON HIS BACK ?

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 HORS E CURS ED BY THE SUN.

(The original, in the Hottento t language, of this little Nama-
qualand Fable, is in Sir G. Grey's Library, G. Kronlein 's
Manuscr ipt, p . 53.)
IT is said that once the Sun was on earth, and caught

the Horse to ride it. But it was unable to bear 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 mornin g and again until
sunset.
Behold, this is the judgm ent 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 O.F DEATH.

THE J\1oon, it is said, sent once an Insect to Men,

saying, " Go thou to Men, and tell them, '.AB 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
70 SUN AND MOON FABLE S.
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

F.AJ3LE.
(From H. C. Knudsen's "Gross-Xam aqualand," 12mo., Barmen,
1848, pp. 27, 28.)
THE Moon dies, and rises to life again. The 1\:Ioon

said to the Hare, "Go thou to 1\fen, 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
again, so you shall also die, and not rise to life again.'
When he returned, the lVIoon asked him, "vVhat
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 1\foon,
· "hast thou said that ?" A.nd she took a stick and
beat the Hare on his mouth, which was slit by the
blow. The I-Iare fled, and is still fleeing."*
* " We are now angry with the Hare," say the old
N amaqua, "because he brought such a bad message, and
therefore we dislike to eat his fiesh."-KN UDSEN.
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33. A THIR D VERS ION OF THE SAME

'FABL E.
(From an original Manuscr ipt 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 :!\!fen that as she (the Moon) died away and
rose again, so manki nd should die and rise again.
Instead , however, of delivering this message as given,
the Hare, either out of forgetfulness or malice, told
manki nd that as the Moon rose and diecl away, so
Man should die and rise no more. The Hare, having
returne d to the JYioon, was questioned as to the
message delivered, ancl the :Moon, having heard the
true state of the case, became so enrage d with him
that she took up a hatche t to split his head ; falling
short, however, of that, the hatche t 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 treatm ent, raised his
claws, and scratch ed the 1\-Ioon's face; and the dark
parts which we now see on the surface of the :h.foon
are the scars which she received on that occasion.
34. A FOURTH VERSIO~ OF THE SAJHE
FABLE.
(From Sir J ames E . ..Alexander's "Expeditio n of Discovery into

the Interior of .A.feica," vol. i. p. 16!J.)
THE ~'foon,they say, wished to send a message to

~Ten, and the Hare said that he would take it. "Run,
then," said the ~foon, " and tell 1\Ien that as I die
and am renewed, so shall they also be renewed.."
But the Hare deceived 1\'fen, and said, "As I die and
perish, so shall you also."*
* Old N amaguas will not therefore touch Hare's flesh;

but the y01mg men may partake of it ; that is, before the
ceremony of making them men is performed , which merely
consists in slaughteri ng and eating an ox or a couple of
sheep.-ALEXAND ER.
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35. A ZULU VERSIO N OF THE LEGEND

OF THE "ORIGI N OF DEATH ."
(From Manuscript , "Zulu Legends," No. 214 of Sir G. Grey's

Library, vol. i. part i. p . 107.)
GOD (Unknlunkuln) arose from beneath (the seat of the

spiritual world, according to the Zulu idea), and created
in the beginnin g* men, animals, and all thing . He
then Sf!nt for the Chameleon, and said, " Go, Chame-
leon, and tell ~1en 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 ha te and
tell Men that they should die. The Salamander went
on his waiwith this message, outran the Chameleon,
and, arriving first where the Men were, told them that
they must die.
* Ol~langeni. Vide Colenso's "Zulu-Eng lish Dictionary ,"

p. 179.
VII.
HEI TSI EIB IP

AND OTHER LEGENTIS.
36. HEITSI EIBIP.
(Fl'om a German original Manuscript in Sir G. Grey's Library,

H. 0. Knudsen's " Notes on the IIottentots, " p. 7.)
HEITSI EIBIP, or Kabip, was a great and celebrated

sorcerer among the N amaqua. 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 grandfath er'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
:J('
Petrus Friedrik, was afterwards informed that Heitsi Eibip

/6 HEITSI EIBIP AND OTHER LEGEN DS.
Heitsi Kabip died several times, and came to life

again. When the Hottent ots pass one of his graves
they throw a stone on it for good luck.*
11 eitsi Eibip could take many different forms.
Sometimes he appeared ~anclsome, very handsome,
or his hair grew long down to his shoulders; at other
times it was again short.
was not the p1rson meant in this tale. It looks very much
like the end of our 27th Fable, ofthe Woman who outwitte d
the Elephan ts.
* Sir J ames E. Alexander, in his" Expediti on of Discovery
into the Interior of Africa," vol. i. p. 166, speaking of the
people at W a::_.m Bath, or Nisbett Bath, says :-"Thes e
N amaquas thought that they came from the East. In the
country there is occasion ally 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 hacl 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 HEITS I EIBIP.

(FTom a German original Manuscri pt in Sir G. Grey' LiiJrnry,
H. C. Knudsen 's" Kotes on the Hottentot s,' p. 7.)
AT first they were two. One had made a large hole

in the ground, and sat by it, and told pa crs-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 lleitsi Eibip
was told that in this manner many people died. So
he arose and went to the man, who challeng ed Ileitsi
Eibip to throw (a stone) at him. The latter, however,
declined, for he was too pruden t; but he drew the
man's attention to somethi ng on one side, and while
he turned round to look at it, .fleitsi Eibip hit him
behind the ear, so that he died and fell into his own
hole. Mter that there was peace, and people lived
happily .*
* Sir James .Alexander, in his " Expediti on of Discover y

into the Interior of Mrica," vol. ii. :p. 250, ste1tes :-" 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 inhabite d
by Hei;je Eibib, and was the wonder of the country. "
38. ANO THER VERS ION OF THE SAJYIE
LEGE ND.
(The original, in the Hotten tot language, is in Sir G. Grey's
ALL men who came near to that hole were, it is said,

pushed down into it by the :f Ga :fgorip* (the pushe r
into the hole), as he knew well where it lay. Whils t
he was thus employed, there came the H eitsi Eibip,
called also Heigeip, and saw how the :f Gu. :fgorip
treate d the people.
Then these two began to hunt each other round the
hole, sayin g-
"Push the Heigeip down !"

"Push the :f Gu. t-gorip down !"
"Push the Heigeip down !"
"Push the :f Ga. :fgorip down !"
With these words they hunte d each other round
for some time ; but at last the Heigeip was pushed
* The :f is the palata l click, described in Note to Fable

24, p. 55; and indicat es the nasal pronun ciation of a syllable.
THE VICTORY OF HEITSI EIBIP. 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 arne
words:-
" Push the Heigeip down ."

" Push the *Ga. *go rip 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 *Ga. :J: gorip was pushed down, and he came
not up again. Since that day m8n breathed freely
and had rest from their enemy, because he was van-
quished.
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39. THE RAISIN-E ATER.
(The original, in the IIottentot language, is in Sir G. Grey'

Library, G. Kronlein's Manus&ipt, pp. 34, 35.)
IT is said that when Heitsi Eibipwas 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 accotmt of these
raisins ; death is here at the place." The old man
(Heitsi Eibip), however, t old his son .1 Urisip * (the
whitish one), "I shall not }ive, I feel it; thou must,
therefore, cover me when I am dead "rith 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 yo will surely die in a similar way.'"
His young wife said, "He is taken ill on account
of the raisins of this valley. L et us biD·y him quicklY.,
and let us go."
* The ! is the cerebral click described in Note to Fable

27, p. 62.
THE RAI8LX-EATER. 81
So he died there, and was covered flatly with soft
stones according rrs he hacl command.ecl. Tl en they
went away f:rom him.
When they had moved to another place, ancl IYC're
unpacking there, they heard always from the . i.clc
whence they came a noise as of people eating raisins
ancl singing. In this manner the eating and singing
ran:-
"I, father of I Urisip,

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 fl'om

the side where the old man's grave was, and said,
"I Urisip I Go and look!" 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 HEITSI EIBIP AND OTHER LEGENDS.
And when thou hast caught him, do not let him

go."
He did accordingly, and they came between the

grave andHeitsi Eibipwho, 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 DIFFERENC E IN

MODES OF LIFE BETWEE~ HOTTE ... T-
TOTS AND BUSHJ)IEN.
(From a German original Manu crjpt in Sir G. Grey' Library,

H. C. Knudsen's "Notes on the HoLten Lots," pp. 7, 8.)
IN the beginning there were two. One was blind,

the other was always hunting. This htmter 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. H e 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.
vVhen 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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84 HEITSI EIBIP AND OTHER LEGENDS.
flaring up into his face, burnt hlln 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 hills, to hunt there for
honey."
Hence sprung the race of Bushmen.
VIII.
HOU SEH OLD TAL ES.
41. THE LITTL E WISE WO)IA N.
(The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir G. Grey'.

Library, G. Kri:inlein's Manuscrip t, p. 53.)
A GIRL, it is said, went to seek for onions. As she

arrived at ttie 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. Wben her sack
was full, they said to her, "Go, 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
86 HOUSE HOLD TALES .
traces of feet, and said to the one who had guided

them thither , "Wond erful! 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-eat er's hole. Still further
spying about, she perceived some men, but they did
not see her. She then returne d and continued dig-
ging with the other girls, without, however, saying
anythi ng. 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
diggin g? \Vhat 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 throug h a reed pipe the following air : -
"To-da y there shall blood flow, blood flow, blood
flow!"
The little girl understood what was blown on the
reed. She said to the elder one , whilst they were
dancing, " Do you also unders tand the tune that i
blown on the reed?" But they only said, "\Vha t a
THE LITT LE WISE WOMA .Y. 87
child she is!" So she mixe d in the dance with the

other s; but mana ged while so doing to tie her i t r's
caross-cloak to her own, and in this mann er they
danced on, till it became very noi y, and then they
found an oppo rtunit y to slip away.
On their way out the little sister a ked, " Do you
under stand the reed -I mean what is blown on it r"
She answered, "I do not under stand it." Then the
little girl explained to her that the tune on the reed
~
said, "To- day blood shall flow! " "\Vhen they walked
along, the little girl let her elder sister go first, and
herse lf followed, walki ng backwards, and carefully
stepp ing in her sister 's traces, so that they thus
left only one set of footmarks, and these going in a
contr ary direction. In this mann er they arrive d at
the ant-e ater's hole.
But the men killed all those girls who had rema ined
danci ng with them . Whe n the eldest of those who
had escaped heard their wailing, she said, " Alas, my
sisters !" But the youn ger 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, "Wh ere may the two hand-
some girLs be who danced with me?" The other s
replied, " He lies. He has seen with his eye (satiri~
88 HOUS EHOL D TALES .
cally meani ng he had seen wrong ly). But "One- eye"

insisted that " two giTls were truly missin g." Then
they went to find theiT spoor, but the traces had been
rendered indist inct enoug h to puzzle them.
Wben the men arrive d at the ant-ea ter's hole, they
could not see that the footmarks went furthe r, so they ·
spied into the hole, but saw nothin g. Then "One -
eye" looked also, and he saw the girls, and cried,
"Ther e they sit." The others now looked again,
but still saw nothin g; for the girls had covered them-
selves with cobwebs.
One of the men then took an assegai, and pierci ng
thrm~gh the upper part of the hole, hit the heel of
the larger giTl. But the little wise woman took
hold of the assegai, ancl wiped off the blood. Tho
elder sister was about to cry, but the little one warne d
her not.
When "One -eye" spied again, the little girl made
big eyes at him. He said, " There she sits." The
others looked too, but as they could see nothin g 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 u go to drink, ancl when we
have return ed you may go also."
When " One-eye " was left alone there, the littlt-
girl said (conjuring him) :
THE LITTLE WISE WOMAN. 80
"You dirty son of your father,

Are you there ? Are you alone not thirty ?
Oh, you dirty child of your father !
Dirty child of your father!"
"I am indeed. thiJ:sty," said "One-eye/ ' , nd went
away.
Then the two giTls came out of the hole, and th
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 "\Vait-a-bi t," 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' 8 eyes
and went away, leaving them lying Dl 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 UNREAS ONABLE CHILD TO WHO:i\1:

THE DOG GAVE I TS DESERT S ;
OR, A RECEIP T FOR PUTTING ANY ONE TO SLEEP.
(The original, in the o Tyi-herm·6 or Damara language, is in Sir G.

Grey's Library, J . Rath's Manuscript , pp. 39, 43.)
THERE was a little girl who had an ei'ngi (pro-

nounced a-inghi, some kind of fruit). She said to her
Mother, "Mother , why is it that you do not say, '1\Iy
:first-born, give me the ei'ngi ?' Do I refuse it?"
"Her l'riother said, "My :first-born, give me the
ei'ngi." She gave it to her and went away, and her
Mother ate the e'ingi.
When the child came back, she s:1id, "Mother, give
me my ei'ngi ?" but her Mother answered, "I have
eaten the e'ingi !"
The child said, "JYiother, 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 founcl her Father sew-
ing thongs with thorns; so she said, "Father, 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, "1\Iy first-born, give me your
needle." She gave it to him and went away for a
while. Her Father commenced sewing, but the necclie
broke; when, therefore, the child came back and aid,
"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 1\Iother, who ate my e'ingi, 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 m:r ei'ngi, which I
92 HOUSEH OLD TALES.
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? Wb.y
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 presentl y returnin g, said,
"Little old woman, let me have my honey!" Now
the old woman had manage d 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 e'ingi, 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, "Phea ants!
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 DESER TS. 03
back and demanded her food again, they said, " \\Te
have 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 hacl broken my
axe, which had been given me by my Father who
had broken my needle, which was a presen t from my
lVIother who had eaten my ei'ngi, which I had pluclyed.
from our tree?" The pheasants, flying up, pulled out
each one a feather and threw them down to the little
girl.
She then, walkin g along, met the childre n who
watched the sheep. They were plucki ng out hali·s
from the sheep-skins. So she asked them, "How is
it that you pull at these skins ? \Vhy do not you
say, 'First- born, give us the feather s?' Do I refuse,
or what do I P" They said, "First- born, give us the
feather s." She gave them and went away, but all
the feathers broke. When she returne d and said,
"Give me my feather s," they answered, "The
feathers are broken ." Then she complained, "Do
you break my feathers which I receive.d from the
pheasa nts 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 HOUS EHOL D TALES .
handsome dog gnawi ng bones. She said, "Our dog,

how is it that you gnaw these bones ?" The dog
answered, " Give me milk." She gave it him, ancl
he drank it all. Then she said to the dog, " Give
me back my milk." He said, "I drank it." She
then repeated the same words which she had spoken
so often before ; but the dog !'an away, and when she
pursu ed him, he scampered up a tree. She climbed
up after him, but the dog jumpe d down again on the
other side. She wante d to do the same, but could
not. Then she said, "Our dog, please help me
down. " He answered, "Why did you pursu e me ?"
and ran away leavin g her up the tree.
"Tha t is enoug h," say the Damara.

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day haYe-fed on the fiery wine nfFtstu. or · r. · 1 d · 11 11
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have beln so henlthful and roLu•l in tl.e mid-t tions. nnd l wcut y-,..ix Wood< Ill~<. from
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read, are sure to be admired • . . Headers
who find this vein of reading in their own
~
neatly J.alf-Lotdld IlliJl"Occo, gilt top,
uncut, Roxl,nrgh style.
II humour- and there must be many such- will
get the v"lume for them.rlves. Mr . ~la<Fey's
poetry shows growth. Some of the fine>t
"Tyll', fam~ ha- gcme nbr••nrl into nlllond•;
this, the nnrrntiYC of his exploits, ha, been pub-
li·IJed in innnmcrnhle edition.•, even with nll
and weal<est productions of our l'eneratior. manner oflcarnul gloss•-·•. nnd lnm·lutcd into
may be tounrl in this vo1ume:·-;Jthr11(UC1ll, Latin,En~Ji,h,l•rcnch,J)utch,J>oJi h,ct<·. \\e
.August 17, 1Biil . may .ay that to few morlab ha ·it he en ~runted
•· The exception that we make i· in favour t•J earn MIC'h a 1Jia<·c in univcr,al hi.tory us
of Gerald Mu6S('y. He has in h"m n•any of Tyll : for now, nfter five <·enturics, when
the elements of a true poet. " - F«triot, "\\all ace·~ hirthplnce is unknown, cnn to the
August~~. 1861 . "cots, and the Admirnhlc Crichton •till more
II as" aGeralrl ltlas>ey has been nearfl of ere now
poet. De has written vcr•es with sLch
ropid ly i' gn.wn tl. >hadow, nntl E<lwnrcl Lon I)-
;hnub sl<·~p.- unreg:.rde<l, save lJy o. ft·w anu-
I rouches r,f nature in them a reach the heart nt
once. Himself a child of labour, hP has felt the
quarian English. 'l'yll'o native village is
pointed out with pride to the tmvelln. und his
labourer'• sufrering<, and ntteretl the labourer's toml>-tolle, with a sculptured pun on his nnme
plaint; but uttered in such roue- as throqghout -namely. an Owl nnd a Gla'"• sltll stnn<1>, or
tl1e din of the mills wer" surely recognised ns pretet1ds to stHnd, nt )lollcn. ncnr J.tiLLck,
poetry."- The Nation, September ~I, 1861. where, sinc·e I:J:;O, his ont·e tdtnble bones ha\e
•· Gerold l\lassey has a large and in<·reaRing been nt rest."- 'llwuws C(lt'/ylr·'s h'ssoys, Yol,
public of his own. 1l1e is utoe of the most ii. pp 2f<7, ~88-
musical, anrl the most pure in thought, of all ''A '"'"k for the antiquary, for the satirist,
I
1
the large army of young Lards who have so
recently stared at little more than the sun
and moon . Everybody can read Jllr. ltlas>ey,
nnd the hi.turian of snttre; for the boy who
reads for , dnnture's sake; ; for the grown 1'er-
son, loving cre1·y fiction that has a character in
and he is worthy of Lein~ read by everybody . I it . . . . l\Jr. ~lacker,zie'ri language is quaint,
I !lis words flow "ith the fte rlom and im-
petnosity of a cataract." - Llvyd's WeeVy,
August tfl, 1861.
racy, and antique, \\itho•Jt a tiresome 5t!lti•e"s.
The b·1!Jk, ns 1t stttnds, is a wei Otne piece of
Eng1is~ rtading. with hardly a dry or ta~tcless
Mayne. THE LosT F'RIEJ:\'Tl. .A Cri· mcmel in it. \Ve fancy that 1ew Christrnns
mean :Memory. .A.ud other Poems. books will be put forth more peculiar and cha-
By C'OLBOURN :MA VNE, E~Q 12 mo. ru.ctetistic than thiti comely Engli.h version
of the 'Adventu1·es of 7 yll Owly/ass.' ' ' -
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.lUu ncb. WILLIAM AND HA<..EAEL Rus- the popularity of Tyll Eulenspiegel • . . .
SELL; A Tragedy, in Five Acts. By surpassiliG even tho.t of the 'l'ilyrim's I ro-
g?·ess.' " - Spectator.
ANDREAS MuNCH. Translated from the Precio~a; A Tal e. Fcp. 8vo. Pp. 326,
Norwegian, and Published under the cloth, Is. Ud 1852.
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human race, and another ofinimitable genius - EI"ierl!f" P,et·l(·lc.
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while for those who are possessed of ageographi-
" The interest of these volwnes lies partly in cal ta te, which is in some de~ree a thing apart, it
the narrative of travel they contain, and partly will have a hi~h degree of interest.• -Spectwor.
in tile stor s of information on all kinds o1 sub- "Th.is boo!< ts a good honest book-a book that
jects with which they abound."-oatu;·day was needed, and thnt may be referred to as are-
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for travellers throu~h the countries of which it '"llis book is by far the most comprehensive
treats."-Lite?·ary (;tuzette. review of all that has heen ohoerved and ascer-
. T R . tained of a tittle-known portion of Asia."-
11avens t e111 . HE USSIANS ON THE Gtwrdicw.
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Colonization, witl.t a Description of the '~'ork which n:lllrk it ott· ~~r:v disti!1ctly fron~ the
Country its Inhabitants Productious hght book. of. tmvel or history which arc 'Yntten
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Foxton. THE PRIESTHOOD AND THE 1 ciple of a 'public rccn~'llition of common rcli-
PEOPLE. By FREDERICK J. FoxTON, gious sentiments;' nncl I rejoice that one like
A.B. Author of'' Popular Christianity," h_im has ta_ken the lend in pointing out the direc-
•8 d .· 1 6d tJon m wluch we m11•t look.
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College. Oxford. Reprinted from "The wings of Imnginati011, to soar into regions 'vhich
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out incidentally, is <listingui hed by a peculiar but an exhibition of the methods of human
e~e!lance of styJe,and, in the hands of a calm and kr.owledge and of the relations between its dif-
pllllosophical theologian may serve as a useful ferent branr:heo, :'of. Comte calls hi,; work philo-
precis of the most formidable dilficulties he has
to contend against in the present day."-IVeekly
Nev·s.
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sophy: and because it limit itself to what can
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Critic, loth Dec., 18:.7. l>lny, !·~·" ·
"Few would btlieve that a good octnvo volume '"JE.> tcnuincrol en nn11011t'nnt lt• premi~r volume
would be nece>':U: tO exltau.-t t 11<' >ubjcct ; yt•t so d'uuc pulJlicatiou flJIJ,cl.Sc ;\ reudro tit~ ,:r.tnd .. ~t·r
and this haud.... onn~. U:-t:ful, and curiou~
it is, vice ... n In philolo,..de C0111par't• et a. In Hn,..ui ... liquo
volume, carefully compiletl by ~tr. Ludewig. U:,- g~ner:•le. Jc Ycu J>• rl••r <I•· Ill lllhlioth ca Glut-
si ted by Profe«-orTurm·r, ami c<litt>d by the care- ticn. ouvrttge dt.:vunt n·uf,·Tlllt>T lo. Ji to dt• tous lc
ful band of ~lr. TrUI.Jucr, the well-knowu pub- d.ietiounuire~ t:L dv tuutc., }c ... 1-!rnuuunirt -4 tl~-.
lisher, ";u be !'ure to tin(1 u. j1lnn! in n1nuy li lan~ue;o, conuu .... tttnt i111prirn•~"' quo Jlltuu-..,·rit .
braries."-B•·nf~ .Ad.:erti.<tr, St 1 ~-ov., 18.">7. l/t:ditl"ur dtl c tto pr~t·i u .. ._. hiblio,.:r:lJ,hi l. t ~I.
B The lover,:; of American liut,ruktic:-o "-ill fincl in
.... -ir·olm; TrllLtlt·r, dout 1•· norn c.. t hu110rubleuu\nt
the work of :O.tr. Trllhtwr scnrcely any point connu tluns Jc tuondt orl•ut ll. Le )1rcmier voluHJ•'
omitted calculated t•) nid the comparative phi- e"'t cOn"'~ncr~ nux i•lioruP:i ~\mfrk.rti.uc .. ; )p .. , ('Owl
lologer in tracing the various lang-ut~g-l·s of the doit trnit;·r de~ Jlln~o.:·w·~ (h.• l'lnde. Le travuil ·~t
g r eat \ Vestcrn Continent." - Gulu;uy Mercury, f1tit avec },. '-f•in lc plu"~ coue;.ci~:n,•i,·tt"l, ct ft·ru
30th Jan., 1808. houneu 1il :If Nicolth Trllhn•·r, Mttrrout ,·u pour-
suit son ccuvro avec lu 1n;':lll\:' urtil·ur r1u'il nmi ... t· i\
" Only those deeply verserl in pltilological studies le commellcl'r.•• - /.,. Leull, lie ltUI:iiiiJ· l~e1..·ue
can appreciate this book at ils fuJI vuluc. It ~hows de l'Orient, Fcvrier, 1~5 •
that there are UJHnlrds of •evcu huntlre<l ••nd fifty
ahorif..>ina1 A1nerican language~." - GeJLtlc;.Jnan's "Mr. TrUbner'8 mo't importnnt work on the
.Magazine, Feb. 1851'!. bibliography of'thH nburiginul languagt•:1-> of .A!Ilfl-
rica i:i Ucst·rviug of u11 prui:oe, Uf= cminrutly us ful
" T he work contains an account of no fewer than to tho•e who 'twly thut brunch oflit•·ratun·. Tho
seven hundred cliJferent ahori:rinnl tliulect .. of ..:\Jne- vu.lue, too, of the~book, and of the pain~ wllic hits
rica, with an introductory clutpt~->r ofhihliQgraphical COIIIJlilntiOn untst have co .. t, will not b" lt.· .. s~·nt.•d hy
infonnation ; and u_ndPr ench dialect is an a.ccnm1t the C0n,i•lenlliun thilt it i~ fifjo;L iu this fi ·l1l Of lin-
of any ~rtln1mars or otbtr 'vorks illu ·rrative of it." g'UL tic litt•rature . " -l~l'irrmtll 1 tt's Gcoyraphische
- The Bookseller, Jan. 18:.8. .Jltttheilung•n, p. 79, Feu. , 1858.
"\Ve baveberethe list of monuments still exist-
Ing, of an almo t innumerehle 'eries of languages "Undon!Jtcdly thi• volume of TrUhnPr'" Bib-
and dialects of the American Continent. The liothcca Glotti<-urauk• amon~-o.-.t the mo<~t vulunble
greater part of Indian gramtnars and vocabularies additions which of lute ycur• have enriche<l our
exist ouly in l\LS .. and wc·rc ~ompiled chiefly by biiJliogruphicu.l lih·rntun~. rro u~ Gcntulns it i~
most gratit)-ing-, that the initiutivu has h~Pn tokt•n
lllissionories of the Chrbtian Chur<-11; one! to Dr.
Ludewig and l\Ir. Trl\IJUc-r, we urP, therefore, the I.Jy '' Gcrmun book•••ller hilnsclf, one of the mORt
more indebted for the grcnt care with which they intelligent and ttCtiv~ of our countrymen abrOtvl,
have pointed out w!JPre such are to be foun<l, as to produce a work which h.nR Wghcr aims tlum
well as for enun1erating- thos~ ·which huve lJeP.u 1ncrc pecuniary profit, untl thnt he too, has la-
p1·inted, either iu a SC}Jal·ate shnpP, in collections, boured at its production with hL' own hands ;
bccuu.~e daily it is bc"oming a circwnsttmco of
ur in vovages and t-ravels, aud clse,vhere. 11-
rn.rer occurrence that, 0.8 in this case, it is n hook-
Leadtr, 1I th Sept. 18[}8. seller's primary object to serve the ca.use of lite-
"I have not time, nor is it my purpose, to go rature ruther than to enrir:h hi.tllBelf."- P. Tromel,
into a review of this udmiruble work, or to Borsenblatt, 4th Jan., 18.">8.
attempt to indicate the extent and value of its
contents. It is. perhups, enough to say, that apart "In the compilation of the work the editors
fro1u a concise but clear enumeration and notice of have avuilc<l themselves not only of the labou r s
the variou.~ general philologi•·nl works which trent of Vater, Burton, Duponcenu, Gallatin, De Souza,
With g-reater or lt!. s fulness uf Anu~r icanlang;uages, and others, but also of the MS. sources left by the
or which incidentally touch upon their hiulio- missionarie•, and of many books of which even tho
graphy, it contains not less thun 256 cJo,.cJy- lilm1ry ofthe British M:useUJn is deficient, and fw·-
printed octavo pa1;es of bil,liOf,'Taphical notice" of nish the fullest account of the literature of no less
gr~nnmars, vocabularies, etc., of the aboriginAl than 52b lim,;uugcs. The val ue of the work, so ne-
Iaw;uages of America. It is a. peculiar and valuable cessary to the 'tucly of ethnology, is greatly en -
featur e of' tbe work tba.t uot only the titles of huncecl by tho oclclition of a good Inclex ."- Be?"liner
printed orpuhlL,l•ed grnmmars or vocabularies are National-Zeitung, 22ncl N ov. , 1857.
given, but a.lso tht1t UllJJDIJli,hcd or MS. works of' " T he name of the nuthor, to all those who are
these kinds are uoticerl, in all cuBes ·where they are acquuintcd with his former work•, ami who kno w
known to exit, but which hnve clihuppeared among the thoroughness nne! p1·ofound chunlcter of bis in-
the deb1·is <-f the suppressed convents t.mrl religious vesti?{ntions. is a sWlicicnt guara.ntee that this work
c.tai.Jlishmeuts of Spanish America."- £. G Sqwer, will be one ofstamlard authority, and one that will
in a_yape1· nad before the .Ame1·ican Etf!rv;lo- fully answer the demands of the present ti.tne."-
g~calSociety, 12th Jan., 1858 . Petzholdt's .Anzeiger, J an., 1858 .
"In consequence of the death of the author be- " The chief merit of the editor anc1 publisher is
fore he bud finhhecl the revisal of the work, it to huve tenninated the v. ork carefully a11d l uciclly
has been carefully examined by competent scho- in contents and form, and thus to have establish ed
lars, who have also made many valuable addi - a new nncl Jorg~ly augmeutetl edition of ' Vate1·'s
tions." - .American Publishers' CtTcular , 30th Linguarwn rotius 01·bis Index,' after Professor
Jan., 18.">8. J Ulg's revision of 18 17. In order to continue and
" It contains 256 closely-printed pnges of titles complete this work th e editor requires the assist-
of printed books and manuscripts, and notices of ance of all those who arc acqtta.intecl with this new
Amer ican aboriginal languages, and embraces re - branch of science, nnd we sincerely hope it mny he
ferences to nearly all1hat has been written or pub- accorded to him."- Magazinfur aie L i te1·atu1· des
lished respecting them, whether i n special works .Auslandes, No. 38, 18f)8.
or incidentally in books of travel, periodicals, or "As the general title of tbe book indicates , it
proceecline:s of learned societies." - ~Yew Y01·lc will be extended to the languages of the oth er
llemld, 26th J an. , 1858. continents, in case it meet with a favourable recep-
" The manner in which thls contribution to the tion, which wemostcorcliallywishit." .A.F.Pott,
bibliogr aph y of Amer ican languages has been ex- Preussische J ah1·buche1·, V ol. II. , part I,
28 Catalogue of I mportant Works.
" Cette compilation savaute est san• contredit, le the work be of less intere t to the man of letters
travail bib!iographique le pins important que notre inasmuch as it comprises complete Tables of Cou -
epoque nit vu ~ urgir sur les nations indigene<; de tents to all the more prominent Collections of the
l'A.merique."- Nouvelles Anncr.les des Voyages, An1ericans, to the J ournals, i\Iemoirs, Proceedings,
Avril, 1859 . and Transactions of their leamed Societies - and
"La Bibliotheca Glottica, dont M . Nicolas thus furnishes an intellig-ible key to a department
Trlilmer, a commence ln publication, est un des of A.medcan scientific activity hitherto bu.t imper-
livTes les plus uhles qm aient jamais He rediges fectly known and understood in Europe.
po ur faciliter l'etude de In philologie comparee,
Le premier tome de cette gTand bibliographie lin- 0PI:'>"10YS OF TITE PRIJ:SS .
guistique comprend la liste textuelle de toutes les " It has been reser,,ed for a foreigner to have
grammaires, de tous les dictionnaires et des voca- compiled, f01· the benefit of Etuopean readers, a
bulaires m@me les moins etendus qui out ere im- really trustworthy guide to Anglo-American
prim~s dans les differents diaiectes des deux Ame-
literature . This honourable distinction has been
riques; en outre, il fait connaltre les ouvrages fairly won ty ~lr. Nicholas TrUbner, the intelli -
manuscrits de Ia ml'me nature renfermes dans les gent and well-known publisher in Paternoster-
principales bibliotheques publiques et particulieres. row. That gentleman has succeeded in mrtkiug
a very valurtble additon to bibliographical
Ce travail a dO. necessiter ue longues et patientes knowledge
recherches; nussi merite-t-i! d'attirer tout particu- wanted."- , in a quarter where it was much
lieremeut !'attention des ph.ilolO:f1eS. Puissent les Unive1·sal Review, J rtn ., 1859.
autres volumes de cette bibliotneque @tre rediges "' Trubner's Bibliographical Guide to A meri-
avec le m~me soin et se trOttver bientot entre l es can L iterature' deserves praise for the great care
mains de tons les savant :tlL'<quels ils peuvent with which it is prepared, and the wonderful
rendre des services inappreciables."- Revue Ame- amount of information contained in its pages.
?'icaine et Orientale, No. I. , Uct . 1858. It is compiled and edited by l\[r. Nicholas
Trilbner, the publi her, of Paternoster Row. It
" T o every fresh ad clition to the bibliography of comp_rises
l anguage, of which we haven most admirable spe- the Uniteda classified list of books published in
States during the last forty years,
cimen in this work, the thoughtful linguist will with Biblio:vaphical
ever, as the gTeat problem of the unitv of human AlphabeticaL Inclex. The I ntroduction, Notes, and
speech approaches towards its full solution, turn elaborate introduction is very
with increasing satisfaction and hope. and ftlll of facts, and must be the work
of a gentleman who has
"But ~1r. N icolas '£rtibner, however, has per- making himself master of spared no pains in
haps, on the whole, clone the highest service of all in connection all th:Lt is important
to the ph.ilologer, by the publication of " The Li- tainly supplieswith much
American literature. It cer-
information
terature of A1uericnn Aboriginal Languages,n IIe known in Europe."- not generally
has, with the aiel of Professor Turner, greatly en- 1859 . Jloi·J?.ing Suu·, January 31st,
larged, and at the same time most skilfully edited, "l\Ir.
the valuable materials acquired by !lis deceased the first Trlibuer de erves much credit for being
to arrange bibliography according to the
friend II. Ludewig. \Ve do not, indeed, at this received rules of the
moment, know any similar work deserving of full in 1855, and the firstart. lie began the labour
volume was published in
comparison with it. In its ample enumeration of that year; constitutin~, in fact, the earliest
important works of reference, and careful record attempt, on this side of the Atlantic, to cata-
of the most recent facts iu the literature of its sub- logue American books. The present volume, of
ject, it, as might have been expected, gTeatly sur- course, is enlarged, and is more perfect
passes J CLlg's ' V ater.' valuable and trustworthy respect. The method of classification isin every
exceed-
though that learnct1 German's work tmdoubtrdly in"lY clear and useful.
is."- Yorth British Review, No . 59, February, .
R In •hort, it presents the actual state of!Itera-
1 8~9 . ture, as well as the course of its development.
The E<titor has also received most kinrl and en- from the beginning. Into the subject-matter ot
cow·aging letters reSJJCcting the work, from Sir this section we •hall have to lnok hcTeafter; we
George Grey, the Chevaiier Bunsen, Dr. Th. are now simply explainin? the compositiou of
Goldstticker, Mr . \Vutts (of the l\Iuseum), Pro- Mr. Trlibner's inost valuable and useful book."
(of Dresden), IIofruth Dr. Grasse (of Dresden), M.
I
fessor A.. Fr. Pott (of Ifalle), Dr. Julius Pct?.bolt - Spectator, Fehrunry .5, l ;;9.
" i\fr . Trtlbner·s book is by far the most com-
F . F. de Ia Fi~·anierc (of Lisbon), E. Edwards (of plete American bibliography that has yet ap- 11
i\Ianche ter), Dr. l\lax MUller (of Oxford), Dr. peared, and wsplavs an amount of patieuce and
Bu•d•mann (of Berlin), Dr. JU!g (of Cracow), and research that does 'him infinite credtt. \ ·e hrtYe
other lingu.istic scholars. tested the accuracy of the work upon several
points demanding much care and inquiry, :md
the result has always been sati. factory. Our
TJ•iibner (NrcoLA.S). TRti.B}."ER's BIB- A.mericn.n hretluen cannot fail to feel compli-
LIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE TO A>IERIGAN LI- mented by the production of thi; volu111e. which
TERATURE: a Classed List of Books in <JUantit~' almost equals our own Lon1lun cata-
published in the United State of Ame- logue." - The B •O'.seller, February 21, 1e;,q.
ric:a, from 1817 to 1857. With Bibliogra- "To so.v of thi volume that it entirely fulfil•
the pro1iuse of its title-/Ju"e, b Jl<»>i'bly the
phical Introduction, Notes, and Alpha- highest ana mo>t trut!Jfu commewhlion that
betical Index. Compiled and Edited by can be awarded to it. Mr. Trlibner 1lcscrvcs,
NrcOLA.S TRLiBNER . In One vol. Svo, of however, something beyoud general praise for
750 pages, half-l.Jouud, price 18s. the patient and intellil!ent labour with whi h he
has ehtboruted the earlier forms of the wurk into
This work, it is beli ~Yed, is the first atte >~pt that which it "'"" b ·ars. "'hut wa once but
to" arshnl the Literature of the United States scanty vol u1nel ha now o.
becotne Jtwgni tied, un(ler
of America during the last forty years ac- hi; cure, to one of considerul.le ize : and what
cording to the generally recci veu bibliograpb.icttl wus once little better thun a Ury Clltlll:J~ue, may
canons. The l.ibranan will welcon·,e it, no nvw tuke rauk '"' u biographicul work of first-
doubt, as a co•npan;on Yolume to Brunet, rate importance. His l>'"itiou u · an American
II Low .. de , and Ebert: whilst, to the honk- literary a)!ent ha•, <lonbtle", been very favour-
seller, it will be a fa.i thfu l guiue to the Ameri- able to ~[r. Trli1Jne1·, lJ.v throwing ma•ter in hi"
can branch of English Literature- a branch wav: and he confes;es, in his preface. that it is
I which. on account of its rapid increase nud to this source that he id mainh· indebted for the ,
rising importance, be~i.us to force it ·elf daily materirtl3 wh;ch have cnnhlecf him to construct
II more and more upon n.is atteution. Nor will the work before us. ~I r. TrUbner'o object in com-
2!)
1
piling thls book i , he states, two-fold: 'On the fL' n ~vhole. t!llw a morl.'lh ely Ill HI n <I cpcr i1HC·
one hand 1 to :;u[T•Te ·t the nece~sin· of n nHnc 11cr- rc:"'!lln .\tucrwuu utTn.~r th n unr fJlht.:r tUltJUit.
feet w·ork of its kind by an An1cTican. :-ourround- ~ow, I utn ruinJ! to )H.:uk f1f n. 1uHJk j u.,t read\ tu
ed ns he nece sariJy would uc, with the needful leave the pre - of n. L•>n lou publi-hcr. "'""''·
ll.Pl>linnces: and, 'on the other. to '"I'Pl~· to whilcit i' 11 •r•nark·•lolt· in•t ""'C of th · tn th of
.Europeans a au.ide to A.Jv:r}o .:\.tneric.nn literature lll,.Y 1\ ..... ertion in fl•f\ fCIH"C to tl \~ (:l:rll1U1t llHI~t
- a branch wfllch. hY it ~a11id rbc and increa~- he cnrhidt:rctl 11 ..... n in r tl e iute_rc t ol the
ing importance, he.!in> to furce it-elf more >tnd United ::-t ttc-. ll\ prutnutiu th· <Hod reputation
n1ore on our attenticJn.' It j..; Yery nluth::->t in ~lr. uf Atnericnn lth~ 111 nn Ulll' JlltllliJll de ~ret'.
Trlibner thus to treat hi. work"' a mere ,ug- •· The L<>n<lun bo"k trade hn a firm, Tr!ll_.ner
!le?tion for others. It is much more thull thi-: ~Co., of who c l>t ittL"'' llHIINtCt,on ~lltCrt<'llll
It IS an example which tho,e who attetnpt to do hterr~turc. "'well t Itt rt!tnr<·on \mrnn1. l"rtll
an:rthingmore complete cannot do better thttn to a pnuctpal. I.mtwh. J •: the tinu "It" I~""'
follow 11. modeL which the~· will do well to lat~ly JHtloh-ltcd thl' lo;I.Ito~rn(lh), <,f \lltHII'Ull
copy if theY would combine tulne;s of material lnu;.rnn"'c'. \1 r .. ·;..uln Tr!ll•n r '' ·' ( •Crtnau.
\\ith' that 'admirable order and arrnn~ement wh•J hu- lll'H'r iuh thitt <I the lluitcd ,..,tales, nud
which so facilitate reference nnd without which ~·ct he ri-k In tlllll', lalHiltr, :uHltuonc,·. in litl'-
a work uf thi sort is all l:Jut t;seles . rnry Jllthlil'utiota-... fiH '' hkh c\· 11 vai11 l'Htll-u' our
".All hononr then to the literature ofYouna ,~·•mid huve t,ecn tlla<lc to lim! u11 ,\tnl'ricuu pub-
America-fur 'young she still i~, and let hcr h~l,>;t·. • . .. . , , .
thank her stars fi.Jr 1t-nud ull ho 11 uur, also to . :rhe IIC\1 puhhc.tlton of \lr. ftllbucr, to
1\rr. Trilbner, for taking so much pains to 1n:lke whtch I hu.'·e t·~l.l·rn•tl,, ~A .a lJ\rJ.!;. ~·o,: ~·olt!t.ne
us acquainted with it."- The Cntic ~lurch 19 of _oo paves, u_n<•cr t_hc title of Ltl•l."!~r·•P!>Hal
1859 ' ' Gut<leto.\llll'l'll'!lll Lttcratm ·.. \<·lu.s,,ltcd L• t of
· BotJks pui,Ji..,hl'd in tilt· nitccl."'tntl':"!Uf \lul.'ril':tt
"This is not only a Yery useful, because well from 181 ito a!.,;. \Yith BiJ,)io;!rnphic:tl Jnlru-
executed, bibliographical work-It i> also a work duction, :'\olt· ·, :tn<l .\lphabcticul Iu<ll'x. Cunl-
ofmuch interest to all who are connected with piled atHl edit d by • 'iculas Trlll>ncr .
literatw·e. The bulk of it consists ofn cJa,·iiied •· Tlds 111 -t rclllark hu, bllt too tllll<·h truth 111
list, \Vith date of publication, ,ize, nnd price, of it. The l"llitcd Stntcs, in the npiuion of' the
nil the works, original or tr11nslated, which hn.ve great m:t's of' C\'CIJ the wcll-c<lncalcd pcopll- of
appeared in the United States durin<! the hL't Europe, is u country inhabited by a natioll loot
forty Years: and an alphabetical index facili- iu the pur. uit of ntutcrinl illtcrc't. n couutry in
tates reference to any particul!n work or n.uthor. which tile lcchnicully npplicablc brullchcs of
Ou the merits of this portion oft he work we can- some cicnce< mav loc <·ttltivntc<l to a ccnuin
not, of course, be expected to form a judgment. degree, hut a country c'sclllilll_h· without litera-
It would require something of the speciul erudi- ture aiHl art, a ,.., 111 ur.r not wtllwul uc\\·spapcrs
tion of Mr. Trlihner himself, to say bow far he -so much the \\'or.,c liu· it-but almost without
hassucceededorfullen short ofhis unrlertaking hooks. !ow here, Mr. 'l'rllhner. a Gennnn,
-ho\vfew, or how mnny, have l.!een his omis- comes out with n. liot of Americnn books, filling
sions. There is one indication, howeYer, of his a thick l'olume, though eontaini11g .\mc1·icnn
careful rn.inuteness, which suggests the amount publicntions '""-"· upward from the ycnr 1817,
of labour that mu t. have been be: to we~ on the from \\·h ich time he dates the period of n more
work- namely, the full enumeratwn of all the decided literary in<lCJlCndcnce of the United
contents of the various Transactions and Scien- States •
tificJournals. Thus, the 'Transattions of the 1 "Si~ce no native-horn and even no ncloptecl
American Philo~ophlcn.l Society,' from the yeur .Americnn, has taken the tr:mblc of cornj>iling, :tr~
~769 to I~:J7- no 1~dex ~o whJCh has yet appeared ranging. rljgc~tin.~, cditiu;t, a1Hl puhlis )ing 1-'Uch
111 Amenctt -are 111 thts work made easy of re- n. work who else hut" German could undertake
f~rence, ev.er~· paper of everyv?lume bein_g men- it 'I wJu) else nmong the Enropenn nution~ would
t10ned senatml. The naturalu;t, who wJshe; to have thmwht Amcricnn litcntlure worth the
know what papers hn.ve appeared in the Bo·ton labour thd' time anrl the money'? ancl, let me
Jow·nal of i'\atural Historv during the la t n.dd tl;at a sntn.ll'er work of a ,imilnr character
twenty yen.rs. tlHtt is, from lts c01nmencement, : Tl;e Literntnre of Amerirnn Local History,' by
hns onl:.; to. gla~ce,l)\'er ~he five clo~ely-prin~~d the late Dr. 1 fcrmnnn Ludewig, was the w•!rk of
pages of tlus guide _to sn.ttsf,Y: lumself at once. - a German 1ikewbc. ]\[ny he that the maJOnty
1 he Satll?·day Revu,w, April2, 1859. of the Ar~crienn public will tt,cribc but mt in-
" \Ve have never seen a work on the national terior de'lree of intere t to works of this kind.
literature of a people more carefully compiled Tile majority of: the puhiic of other n~tions. wi~l
than the present, and the blbliOf!raphical {>role- do the same, as 1 t cannot be every)Jo~ly ~ uus11 .1ess
to unrlerstnnd the u~cfulness. of bibliography,
gomena deserves attenti 1•e perusal by al who
would study either the political or the literary
history of the greatest republic of the West."-
I and o~ books cont•:m~ng notlung but the C!Hl-
mer at >On and descnpt10n of books. OnE; tl11ng,
The Leader March 26 18o9. ho\\•ever, must !>e !'!'Parent: the deep mtercst
' ' tn.ken l>y some tureu!llers 111 some of the more
"~he subjec~ of my letter to-day mn.y sc~m ~o ideal spheres of A11teric1tn life; nnd if it is trne,
be of apu~ely literary chara~ter, but I fe_elJ,ustl- tlHtt the clear historical insight into its OW'l1 de-
fied. to c_lam1 a more gE!neralmterest for 1t.. :ritA t velopment, idenl as well as material, is one of the
subJect ~s connected wnh the go'!d r_eput~tJOn of most valmthle acquisitions of a nation, future
the Ulllt.ed States abroad,. It ts likewise con- .American genern.tsons will acknowledge the good
nected With the general toptc. C?f my two former services ofthoseforeigners, who, by their literary
letter~. Il~avespol.<enofthetnendsan~then.n- application, contributed to avert the national
tag~nllSts of the Umted S~ates amo11g European calfunity of'the origin of the litern.ry independ-
natwns, and among thecltlferent clnsses of Eu_ro- ence of Americn. becoming veiled in darkness."-
pean soctety. I hn.ve stated that the >tntagomsts New y 0 ,·7cDaily Tribtme December 1858.
are chiefly to be found amon" the nristocracy, ' '
not ouly oflJirth, but' of mintl'-as it h11s been "It is remarlmble and notew?rthy _thn.t the
called-likewise; not only amon" the privi legecl most valuable. manual of .Amen can l~terature
classes and those connected wit11 the Govern- should >tppear m London, and be .PL~bltshcd. by
ment interests but n.mon" those who live in the an E11glish house. Trllbner's Bibliograplu cul
sphere of literntw-e and a~t, and look down with Guide to Amer~can Literattu·e is a woTk_ of ex-
contempt upon a society in which utilitarian ~raordimtry sktll anrl _per~evern.>;tce, gn7 111f\ n.n
motives are believed to b~ paramou_nt. And ,I mclex to all the puh~I~atiOr.s of ,~he A_me~tc~~~
hn.ve asserted that, these dtfferences tn the op1- press for the lttst f01 ty years. - H arpe1 s
nions ofceqn.in classes left aside, the Germans, IT'eelcly, ,\fttrch 2uth, 1859.
Catalogue of Important Works .
"\fr. Trllbner deserves all praise for having and makin" a personal investigution into the
produced a work every way satiofactory. No one condition of' literature in the 1'\ew W orld l\Jr.
who takes an interest in the subject of which it Nicholas Trllbner-the gentleman to whom we
treats can dispense with it; and we huve no have made reference- although by birth a Ger-
doubt thut booksellers in this conn try will learn man, and by education and profession a London
to consider it necessury to them as a shop manual, b0okseller, could hardly be called a' stranger in
and only second in importance, for the purposes America,' for he had sent before him a most
of their trade, to the London Catalogue itself. valuable 'letter of introduction,' in the shape of
That a forei 0 '1ler, and a London bookseller, a carefully compiled register of American books
should have accomplished what Americans them- and authors, entitled • Bibliographical Guide
selves have failed to do, is most creditable to the to American Literature,' &c., pp. x:'<xii., 108.
compiler. The volume contains 149 pages of in - This manual was the germ of the important
troductory matter, containing by far the best publication, the title of which the reader \vill
record of American literary history yet pub- find at the commencement of this article.
lisl~ed; and 5~1 pag-es of classed lists of~ooks, to Now, in consequence of M:r. Trlihner's admi -
wlllch an alphabetiCal mdexof33 pages1s added. rable classificat10n and minute iudex, the in-
This alphabetical index alone may claim to be quirer afrer knowledge has notll.ing to do but
one of the most valuable aids for enabl.iJJg the copy from the Bibliographical Guide the titles of
student of litenu-y history to form a just and the American books wh1ch he wishes to consult
perfect estimate of the great and rising im- despatch them to his library by a messenger, ana1
portance of Anglo-American literature, the in a few minutes he has before him the coveted
youngest and most untrammelled of all which volumes, through whose means he hopes to
illustrnte the grndual development of the human enlarge his acqmsitions. Undoubtedl;r it would
mind."-The Press, Philadelphia , Oct. II. 1858. be a cause ofwell-fotmded reproach, of deep mor-
" We do not so much express the wish by this tification to every intelligent American, if the
notice, that ::l!r. Trlibner may not find a public arduous labours of the learned editor and com-
ungrateful for his labour, as congratulate, espe- piler of this volume (whom we almost hesitate to
cially American Bibliophiles. upon the advan - call a foreigner), should fail to be appreciated in
tage within their reach, by the acquisition and a country to which he has, by the preparation of
use of what Mr. T l"Ubner has so opportunely this valuable wol"k, proved him elf so eminent a
supplied."- Wnshington National Int elligencer, benefactor" - Pennsylvania Enquirer, March
26th.1859.
March 22nd, 1859. The editor of th.is volume has acquired a
"This volume contains a well-clrtssified list of knowled!le of the productions of the American
books published in the United States of America press wlllch is rarely exhibited on the other side
during thu last forty years, preceded by a tole- of the Atlantic, and which must command the
rably full survey of American literary enter- admiration of the best informed students of the
prise during the first half of the nineteenth subject in this country. Hi s former work on
century. Th e value of such a guide, in itself .American bibliography, though making no pJ·e-
tolerably evident, becomes more so upon glanc- t ensions to completeness, was a valuable index
ing OYer the five hundJ·ed and forty pages of to various branches of leaming that had been
close print which display the literary activity successfully cultivated by our scholars ; but,
pervading the country of Prescott and l\Iottley, n either in comprehensiveness of plan nor tho-
of Irving and Hawthorne,ofPoeand Longfellow1 roughness of execution, can it be compared to the
of Story and Wheaton, of Moses Stua1·t ana elaborate and minute record of American lite-
Channing. T his volume will be useful to the rature contained in this volume The duty of
scholar, but to the librarian it is indispensable." the editor required extensive research, vigihtnt
-Daily .\'ews, March 24, 1859. discrimination, and nntiring diligence ; and in
" There are hundJ·eds of men of moderate the performance of his task we are no less struck
scholarship who would gladly stand on some with the accuracy of detail than with the extent
higher and more assured point. They feel that of ll.is information. The period to which the
they have acquired much information, hut they YOlume is devoted, compri ·es only the last
also feel the need of that subtle discipline. lite- forty years; but within that time the litera-
rary education, without which all mere learning ture of this country has received its most elfi-
is the rudis indigesta moles, as much of a stum- cient impulses, aDU been widely unfolded in the
bling-block as an aid. To those in snch a con- vnrions departments of intellectual activity-
clition, works on bibliography are invaluable. If we were permitted to speak in behalf of
For direction in classifying all reading, whether American scholars, we should not fail to congra-
English or American, Allibone's Di ctionary is tulate Mr. Trllbner on the eminent success with
adri:!irable ; but, for particular informution as to which he has nccomrli heel his plan, and the
the American side of the hou e, the recently ample and impartia justice with which he J1as
published Bibliographical Guide to American re!!Jstered the productions of our native at• thor-
Literature, by Nicolas Trlibner, of London, may ship. After a careful exanl.ination of his volume,
be conscientiously commended. A carefu 1 pe- we are bound to express our high appreciation of
rusal of this truly remarkable work cannot tail the intelligence, fmrness,and industry which are
to give any intelligent person a clear and com- conspicuous in its page ; for exactness and pre-
plete idea of the whole state of American book- cision it is no less remarkable, than for extent of
making, not only in its literary aspect. but in its research; few, if anyj important publications
historical, and, added to tll.is, m its most mecha- are omitted on its cata O"ue, and although, as is
n.ical detail s."-Philadelpha Evening Bulletin inevitable in a work of d~.is nature. an erroneoll8
JI.Jarch 5th, 1859. letter has sometimes crept into a name, or an
erroneous figure in to a date, no one can consult
''But the best work on American bibliography it habitually without learning to rely on its
yet publi hed bas come to us from LOndon, trustworthiness, as well as it~ completcness."-
where it has been compiled by the well-known llm·per'.< JJlauazine, A!'ril, 18~9.
bibliopll.ile, Trubner. '.rhe work ls remarkable "~or is the book a. dry catalogue only of the
for condensution and accuracy, tho•.1gb we have name and contents of the publications of Ame-
noted a few error. and omissions, upon which v.ye rica. P refixed to it are valuable bibliographical
should like to comment, had we now space to do prolegomena, instructive to the antiquary, as
so."-New Yorlc Times, March 26th, 1859. well as usetul to the philolo(;ist. In this portion
"Some of our readers, whose attention has of the work, :\fr. Trliuner nad the assistance ot
been particularly called to scientific and Jitcrnry the late Dr. Ludewig, wh<J>e early death was a.
matters, may remember meetin!l, some years great los to philological science. ~lr. Moran-
since, in tb1s country, a most mtelligent fo - the assistant-secretary to the A merican Lega-
reigner, who visited the United tatcs for the tion, has added to the volume a historical sum,
purpose of extending his business connections, mary of the literature of .America.; and Mr.
TTiibner & Co., 60, Paternoster How. 31
Edward Edwards is responsible for nn interestin~ wards a hi torv of American litt'rature : III
account of the public libraries of the United Notices of Public Lihmrib oft he uitcd. tttlc
States. To Mr. Triibner's own careful superin- Thc,c three hcncl~ form the iutrodnl'tion, tmd
tendence and hard work, however. the student occupy one hundred and Tif'n· pa.!~s. IV. In s ·d
must ever remain indebted for oue of the mo•t li,;t uf t>uoks; Y .•\lphnhctlcul li t of author,.
useflll and well-arranged books on Liblio~'l'a Thi• plan is omc"·hnt n!t~r thnt adopted in
plticallore ever pub!Lshed. In addition to this, \\'uth' celebrated 'llibliothccn Britannica,' a
it is right to congratulate Mr. Trtibncr on the work of irnrncn:-c 'Mn1Ul' who .. c cutnpilntiun oc-
1
fnct, that ltis present work confirms the opinion cupied s<nnc torly vcu • The cln.-ilicd portion
pa sed on his · BilJliotheca Glottica,' thnt among of the prc-cnt wo'rk cnnhks th • nuder to find
the booksellers themselves honourable literary readil.'· the nu1nes of all boob on any one uh-
eminence may exist, without Chi'hing with bus1 ject, The nlphnloetical indc.· of ttuthors cnnhlcs
ness arrangements. The bookseller:; of old were the reader tun ·<•crtnin in tuntiY the name of ull
authors, and Mr 'I'rtibner emulates their exam- authors and nf ull tla ir work , i~ocludinl! the
ple.''- Morning Chronicle, March 22, 1"59. numeron. periodical publicnlinns of the last
fori\' \'Cur•. \lr TrU!Jncrdescncs the thnnka of
"Mr ..Tr:libner, who i.s no~ only a bihliC!pole the 1iicrary '' ,,r)d fi.>r his plan. and its nhlc cxe-
but a btbhoplule, has, m tlus work, matenally cution."- Xcw York Courier and Enquirer,
increased the claim which he had already upon A.!Jril 11th, 1 :,n .
the r~spec~ of all [?ook-lovers ever~'wher.,, but "L'nuteur. dans unc pr'fucc de dix pa~rcs, ex-
especially m the Umted i?tates, to "hose litera- pose lc,; id•'c' qui lui out fit it cnlrepr udrc oH
ture ~e lu~s now made so Jmportant and useful n livre, ct le plan (Jll'il a cru dc,'oir adopter. Daus
contnbutton. .so, mu'Oh large~ t!1nu a fo_rmer unc snvalltC introclu!'tion, iJ fnit une revue
!Jook, .~der a snmlar tJtle, which. he P.ubltshcd critique <les dill'' rent ouHng-cs rclatifs 11 t' A nl~
m 18~~. and so much. more amp!~ m every rique: il si;malc ccu:•criui ont lc plu · contrilm~ 1\
respect, !he p~esent conshmtes a new Implement l l'etabli s<·mcnt d'unc lltl•'rnturc sp-<cialc Am~ri
foz: our !1branes, as well as the most)rnluable ex- caine. ct il c 11 fttit l'hi,;toire, cettc partie de son
l~tiD(l' a1dfor.those s~udents.~vho, \\l.thout libra~ travnil c,t dcslin•'c a lui tilirc honueur, clle est
nes, n~vea.n mtere~t m koo\\ mg .the~r contents. 1 Dlcthodiq uemcnt divisle en peri ode coloninle et
-Balt~mO? e An.ertean, 2nd Apnl, 1859. / en l"'ri<Jde A m•'ricaine ct rcnfcnrlc, sur lea
"I,astly, published only the other day, is pror;;rea del' imprimerie en Amerique, •ur !e
Trtibner's Bibliographlcnl Guide to American sal~1~e des aule':'rs,. sur lc, ~OTl!lllCrcc de Ju It-
Literature whicfi_gives a classed list of books brn~r~c, les publiCatiOns penodHJIICs. des ren-
published ln the United States during the last seig-nemcnts tr~" intl-r~soulltr;, que l'on est.
forty years, with bibliographical introduction, hourct!X de tr01~ver reu!1is pour la Jlr.cmi~re fois
notes, and alphabeticaf index. This octavo Cettc mtroduc~1on, qu1 n a pus mo1~s. de 150
volume has beeu compiled and edited by .Mr. pages, sc tern.nne par une t.nblc st>Ltlsl.lfl~le de
Nicholas Triibner. the well-known bead of one toutcs lcs lnhl10th~ques pubhques des di1lcrcnts
of the great foreign publishing and importing Etats de !'Union.
houses ofLond~n, who is also editor ofLu~e.'vig "Lc catalogue m~thodique ct raisonne d~
and Turner's L1te:atureof 4-n:encan Abon~mal ouvrugcs n'occupe pus 1~01n R de 521 pngcs, Jl
Languages. Bes1des contammg a classed list of forme :J2 sections consacrd!S chacune 11 l'unc des
books, with an alphabetical index, J\Ir. TrUb- branches des sciences humainca· cclle q•Ji donne
ner's book has an introduction, in which, at con- ]a 1iste des ouvrurresqui intercsscnt lagf.ographie
sidera.!Jle fulness, be. treats. of the history of et leo voyages (scctiun xvi.) comprend J~r~s. de
4-m~ncan ltteratur.e, l!lCltl(png n e~vspr;tpers, pe- 600 articles, ct parmi cux on trouvc I'm 1ca~wn
nodicals, and public !Joranes. It Js fi:ur to state de plusicurs ouvrages dontuous ne soup~onn10ns
that Mr. Trlilmer's Bibliographlcal Guide wns memc pas !'existence en Europe. Un index
publis~1ed subsequent to AllibC!ne's Dictionary, general alphab~tique par noms d' auteurs qui
but pnnted off about the same tune."-Phtlaael- termine cc livre, r.ennet d'abreger des recherches
phia Press, April 4th, 1859. souvent bien pen1bles. Le guide bibliographique
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familiar with American li1erature, ar,d has pos- des ouvrages du m~me genre publl ~s cnl~urope
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This book forms part of

HOTTENTOT FA_BLES AND TALES.

~ntttntnt ~uhltH nnt! ~alt5.

HIS EXCELLENCY SIR GEORGE GREY, K.C.B.

[Tile Ri,qht of T1·anslation is 1'ese·J'Ved.]

CHILDREN IN SOUTH AFRICA AND ELSEWHERE.

AND TO TIIEIR FRIEND

SIR GEORGE GREY, K.C.B.,

1. The Lion's Defeat 1

II. TORTOISE FABLES.

14. The Elephant and the Tortoise 27

III. BABOON FABLES.

IV. LION FABLES.

22. The Flying Lion 45

27 . How a Nama Woman outwitte d the Elephan ts 61

VI. SuN AND MooN FABLES.

29. Why has the Jackal a long black Stripe on his

34. A Fourth Version of the same Fable ~.

35. A Zulu Version of the Legend of the "Origin of

VII. HEITSI EIBIP AND OTHER LEGE .. DS.

36. Heitsi Eibip 7!J

VIII. HOUSEHOLD TALES.

41. The Little Wise Woman . 85

JYiy DEAR SIR GEORGE ,

In inscribi ng to you this little book, I do no

Fables, Tales, and Legends, besides twe

* Cisgariepian, from the Nam a poi nt of view, i e., to the

of Native literature among ;regro nation8) hn een

lookecl~for mine of literary lore, particularly as to th

nations, or whethe r they have only sprung up recentl y

that this has been established as a proved, and, I be-

* I give here some extrac ts from Mr. W allma nn's letter,

I had, however, at that time not the least idea of

states that when he gave specimens of N amaq_ua to a

but to show the modifications which the pronouns undergo

would lead me; and being then mostly occupied with

(incl.) Saam lLe kautama} dua. l £em.

sions-Gesellschaft" (Reports of the Rhen ish Mission-

aliarumque Sexualium" (8vo., Bonn, 6th Augu t,

* Rep01·t of the Correspondence and Paper read at the

was pointed out to me by. your Excellency. You

Langua ges, viz. :-1. General Charact ers, p. 229; 2. Egyptia n,

hand, and those of the Ka£.Ts and their kindred na-

we could here discuss fully the origin ality or date of

This higher flight of the imaginatiYe facul ~·

these pieces of Ka£r and Negro native literature

* Mr. Rath's Manuscript consists of sixty-one pages, with

Among these pieces there are seven gho t toric ,

ing portions bear such a striking resemblance. It

* The title of Mr. Knudsen's first Manuscript is, "Sud-

script supplied also a legend of The Origin of Dif-

p. 3; the different kinds of Rain, p. 3; Bethany (in Great

have been taken from Sir James Alexander's "Expe-

mainly ,to the help of one who naturally take the

CAPETOWN, April, 1863.

JAC KAL FAB LES .

1. THE LION'S DEFEA T.

THE wild animals, it is said, were once ussomblod

" What child of his mother and father's love,

Then answered the animal to whom the question

"I, child of my mother and father' s love,