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Story: Story of ≠kasin's hunting adventures
Title
Story of ≠kasin's hunting adventures
Collection
Summary
The narrator’s own hunting adventures. He kills a hyena and her two young ones, and shoots some springbok which had been startled by a lion. The presence of jackals indicates the lion’s whereabouts. In a general hunt, the lion is killed, but not before it had broken the knee-bone of a man, who dies from loss of blood. After his burial, the Bushmen remove to another place, so that the children may not be thinking of their father, and wanting to cry. In the Katkop dialect, by ≠kasin (L IV.-2.3534-3585). The hunter covers the bodies of the springbok with bushes and sees a lion. He carries a springbok home and explains to the people why he could not bring home more. The people go with him to fetch the other three springboks and find the lion and shoot at it. The lion bites one of the old men in the hunting party and the other men stab at it until it lets go.
Comments
1) Date on p.3539: 20 November; p.3583: 19 February 1874, 2) Pages 3586-3607 in this notebook are blank, 3) This story is found in Book IV-2
Contributors
Date
November 1873 – February 1874
Categories
History (personal), Custom and daily life
Keywords
hunting (and ≠kasin's adventures) , hunting (methods of) , hunting (-ground) , hunting (and death of an old man) , hunting (of lion) , hunting (and scavengers) , hunting (and cutting up prey) , hunting (and treatment of prey) , hunting (with dogs) , hunting (the wearing of veldskoen) , hunting (the weapons used) , hunting (of hyena) , hunting (of springbok) , hyena (and ≠kasin's hunting adventures) , crows (and ≠kasin's hunting adventures) , crows (and hunting) , crows (watching for) , springbok (and ≠kasin's hunting adventures) , springbok (and treatment of prey) , springbok (the dressing, preparation, and cooking of meat) , lion (its shadows) , lion (kills an old man) , lion (and ≠kasin's hunting adventures) , death (and hunting) , death (and burial) , death (and ≠kasin's hunting adventures) , ≠kasin (his personal history) , ≠kasin (his hunting adventures) , ≠kasin (his hunting methods) , personal history (≠kasin's hunting adventures) , veldskoen (worn in hunting) , veldskoen (and ≠kasin's hunting adventures) , dogs (hunting with) , dogs (and ≠kasin's hunting adventures) , cutting (up of meat after hunting) , cutting (and ≠kasin's hunting adventures) , weapons (used in hunting) , weapons (and ≠kasin's hunting adventures) , shoes (veldskoen worn for hunting) , shoes (and ≠kasin's hunting adventures)
Story Pages
3534-3585
