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Story: What ||kabbo said about his intended return home to Bushmanland
Title
What ||kabbo said about his intended return home to Bushmanland
Collection
Summary
//kábbo’s intended return home. He awaits the Moon that he may return, and hear the Bushman stories. Here he works woman’s work, while his comrades at home hear histories that travel; but he does not visit, as they do. The people down here do not talk his language; they visit their like, and are work-people who keep houses in order, and plant food. The Flat Bushmen visit and smoke at each other’s houses, and listen to histories. On his return to Bushmanland, he intends to put his former house in order, and reassemble his children. He inherited his place, and brought his wife to it (L II.-32. 2874-2925 rev.). ||kabbo explains that 'a story is like the wind' on p.2875v.
Comments
1) Reverse of frontispiece (Book II-32): ||kabbo gives the other name (which is the same) of the Sun and the Moon; also, a note by |a!kunta on the Moon who is 'a man who knows all places', 2) p.2875v: ||kabbo explains that 'a story is like the wind', 3) p.2885v: ||kabbo says that stories follow one along a road one has travelled, 4) p.2889v: ||kabbo says that the people know all the 'returning' man's names, 5) p.2916v: on containers for water, 6) This story is found in Book II-32
Contributors
Date
23 July – 2 August 1873 (finished on or about)
Categories
Keywords
||kabbo (Jantje Tooren) , ||kabbo (wants a gun) , ||kabbo (his imprisonment) , ||kabbo (and magistrate) , ||kabbo (his people) , ||kabbo (his intended return home) , ||kabbo (wants boots to walk home in) , ||kabbo (and Bleek and Lloyd) , ||kabbo (in Mowbray) , ||kabbo (his place) , ||kabbo (his things) , ||kabbo (his personal history) , ||kabbo (his relations) , ||kabbo (his daily life) , ||kabbo (his experiences hunting) , ||kabbo (his game) , ||kabbo (the names of his relations) , ||kabbo (his marriage) , ||kabbo (his wife, !kuobba-an) , ||kabbo (his father's father's place) , ||kabbo (his water–pit) , ||kabbo (his three names) , ||kabbo (his name floats down road) , ||kabbo (he waits for Moon) , ||kabbo (the work he does, women's work) , ||kabbo (and stories or histories) , ||kabbo (his language) , ||kabbo (and 'Flat's people') , story (and ||kabbo's intended return home) , story ('Flat Bushmen' listen to histories) , story (floats into ears) , story (is wind) , story (comes from afar) , story (sails out) , story (of other places) , story (of afar-off's) , story (people feel) , story (travels) , story (follows a person down road) , story (comes from a quarter far off) , Moon (||kabbo waits for) , Moon (is a man who knows all places) , Moon (listens to people's stories) , Moon (and stories) , Moon (and ||kabbo's intended return home) , |xam (groups of) , |xam ('Flat's people') , |xam ('Flat Bushmen') , |xam (visit each other) , |xam (and ||kabbo's intended return home) , |xam (customs of) , |xam (smoke and hear stories) , |xam (are 'smoking's people') , names (float to a different place) , names (go behind mountains) , names (travel) , names (float on wind) , names (pass through people) , names (a returning man's) , names (||kabbo's three) , names (of ||kabbo's relations) , names (and ||kabbo's intended return home) , names (the Har river in Bushmanland) , river (Har) , personal history (of ||kabbo and his relations) , personal history (and ||kabbo's intended return home to Bushmanland) , Bushmanland (and ||kabbo's intended return home) , smoking (and the |xam) , smoking ('Flat Bushmen' are 'smoking's people') , smoking (and ||kabbo's intended return home to Bushmanland) , smoking ('Flat Bushmen' smoke and hear stories) , wind (and ||kabbo's intended return home) , wind ('a story is like the wind') , children (||kabbo's) , children (and ||kabbo's intended return home)
Story Pages
2874-2925
