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Story: Words and sentences: given by Piet Lynx

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Words and sentences: given by Piet Lynx

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Summary

Piet Lynx gives words in his language to Lucy Lloyd in Mowbray, often providing plural and singular declensions. There are sometimes additional columns on the opposite pages, most notably when vocabulary is supplied by Sila, |han≠kass'o and Piet Lynx.

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1) p.6 opp: 'Piet Lynx's father's place was "Taaibosch", & he himself was born, grew up, & married there, as well as the rest of his brothers', 2) p.6 opp: a later note on this page about a 'ground krapper' is dated 27 October 1879, 3) p6: genealogical information about Piet Lynx's family, 4) p.9 opp: 29 April (?) 1879 'The names of different Divisions of Korannas'. Tribe names in English have been written in a different hand in pencil, 5) p.10 opp: more words, dated 30 April, with additional comments in pencil, covering the full page spread, 6) pp.11 opp-23 opp: there are four columns spanning these page spreads - the one on the far right contains English words and the other three are headed (on p11v) 'Sila 2 Feb/79', '|han≠kass'o 30 Jan' and (on p11) '30 Jan. Piet', 7) p.18: date near bottom of page is 3rd Feb, 8) p.21 opp: date at top of page is Oct. 22/79, 9) p.22: date near bottom of page is 6 May, 10) p.22 opp: note on the people who dance the 'pot dance', 11) This story is found in Kora Book I-1