Notebooks
Story: Words and sentences
Title
Words and sentences
Collection
Summary
Words and sentences given by |a!kunta (Stoffel). Included are copies, translated in January 1871, of some of the material collected in Lloyd's first notebooks. There is a short account of |a!kunta's wife, who waits for him in his house and cannot eat springbok (p.137). There is an incantation or verse about 'Kleine Jackals' (Lloyd says 'The Bushmen do not sing the jackal') and a note on how they are caught in their holes (p.122v).
Comments
1) Date on p.119opp: 19 November 1870; p.119: 30 July 1871, 2) This story is found in Book I-1 and I-2
Contributors
Date
16 January – August 1871
Categories
Keywords
dictionary, words and sentences, vocabulary (|xam) , personal history (|a!kunta and his wife) , verse (or incantation to 'Kleine Jackals') , poem (or incantation to 'Kleine Jackals') , song (or incantation to 'Kleine Jackals') , incantation (or verse to 'Kleine Jackals')
Story Pages
1-77, 119-124, 126-132, 134-137, 159
