Notebooks
Story: The doings of a family of lions
Title
The doings of a family of lions
Collection
Summary
An account of the doings of a family of lions (apparently a continuation of one of the Ichneumon’s speeches, in the myth of the Mantis) gives a good deal of conversation of such a description as might naturally be ascribed by Bushmen to lions (L II.-10. 1051-1099, 11. 1100-1170). Also gives details of their sizes and roles in the pride, the teaching of young lions to hunt and other information about their hunting habits.
Comments
1) This notebook is described in the contents page as being largely concerned with 'Natural History', 2) p.1087v: notes and a diagram depicting the hunting strategy of male and female lions in pursuit of quagga, 3) p.1097v: the male lion talks, but the female lion thinks and does not talk, 4) p.1103v: the |xam terms for dragging and carrying things, 5) p.1105v: different types of trees, 6) p.1113v: ||kabbo explains that lions drink water to mix with the dry bones and flesh to make them cool, 7) p.1142v: Lloyd writes that she has been wrong ('confounded') in her translations of |xam words that she has mixed up ('to lie' and 'to seek'), 8) p.1151v: pronunciation of the |xam term for 'eat', which is made in the throat so as to produce a sound that frightens away with the mouth, 9) See also Lion eats all things, 10) This story is found in Books II-10 and II-11
Contributors
Date
16 January (started on or about) – April 1872
Categories
Keywords
lion (its nature and habits) , lion (the doings of a family of lions) , lion (its hunting methods) , lion (its diet) , lion (its 'thinking strings') , lion ('understands') , lion (and vultures) , lion (is great) , lion (its 'thoughts talk') , lion (Ichneumon’s speech about) , gemsbok (and doings of a family of lions) , gemsbok (its odour when dead) , gemsbok (is hunted by lions) , gemsbok (its nature and habits) , gemsbok (and Har River) , gemsbok (and vultures) , places (Kleine Brinkkop) , places (Har River) , hunting (methods of lions) , quagga (the doings of a family of lions) , quagga (hunted by lions) , springbok (and doings of a family of lions) , springbok (hunted by lions) , vultures (and hunting habits of a family of lions) , jackal (its nature and habits) , jackal (and doings of a family of lions) , jackal (takes lion's food) , kudu (and doings of a family of lions) , kudu (hunted by lions) , thoughts (the lion's 'talk') , Ichneumon (speech about lions) , speech (Ichneumon's about lions) , names (of places) , names (Kleine Brinkkop) , names (Har River)
Story Pages
1086-1099, 1100-1170
