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Story: The youth (of the Early Race of people) who warned those at home of the approach of a Koranna commando
Title
The youth (of the Early Race of people) who warned those at home of the approach of a Koranna commando
Collection
Summary
The youth of the early race, who saved the lives of the people at home by warning them of the approach of a Koranna war party. By /han≠kass’o (L VIII.-25. 8251-8261, 26. 8262-8268). A youth of the Early Race is seen by a commando of Korannas, so he acts as if he were a little child ('swaying about'). There is some debate among the Korannas as to whether to kill the child or not, but eventually they help him load up his water bottles and send him on his way. He returns home and tells his people what he has seen, and they leave for the mountains. The Korannas come, believing the people to still be there.
Comments
1) |han≠kass'o heard this from his mother (|xabbi-an), 2) p.8260v: names for and descriptions of various birds and plants in Bushmanland, 4) pp.8266v & 8267v: see A person who takes snuff: tobacco eats up his brains, 5) See also The escape of |kannan from the Koranna commando, 6) This story is found in Books VIII-25 and VIII-26
Contributors
|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)
Date
13 February 1879 (started)
Categories
Keywords
youth (who went singing along) , youth (who warned his people about the Koranna commando) , youth (the Korannas help him to 'dip up' water) , youth (who pretended to be foolish) , youth (acts like a little child, 'swaying about') , youth (transforms himself into a child and a grown-up youth) , youth (of the Early Race) , youth (deceives the Koranna commando) , youth (becomes a little child) , commando (of Korannas and the Early Race) , commando (Koranna) , commando (the youth who warned those at home of the approach of a Koranna–) , Koranna (a commando) , Koranna (the youth of the Early Race of people who warned those at home of the approach of a commando) , Koranna (their relations with the |xam) , Koranna (their 'war things' or war dress) , Koranna commando (of the Early Race) , Koranna commando (debate whether to kill the youth) , Koranna commando (how they came to miss the youth's people) , Koranna commando (pity the youth and help him dip water) , Koranna commando (how the youth's people fool and escape from them) , Koranna commando (bound on wood-pigeon's tails) , Koranna commando (their 'war things' or war dress) , Koranna commando (the youth who deceived one into thinking him a foolish child) , transformation (how the youth deceives a Koranna commando) , transformation (the youth who becomes a child and then returns to his own form) , transformation (and the youth of the Early Race of people who warned those at home of the approach of a Koranna commando) , wars (between the |xam and the Korannas) , wars (and the Early Race) , wars ('war things' worn by a Koranna commando) , wars (and the youth who warned those at home of the approach of a Koranna commando) , dress (the 'war things' worn by the Koranna commando) , dress (and the youth who warned those at home of the approach of a Koranna commando) , Early Race (or the First Bushmen) , Early Race (and the youth who warned those at home of the approach of a Koranna commando) , water (and the use of ostrich eggshells) , water (methods of fetching and 'dipping it up') , water (the Koranna commando helps the youth to 'dip it up') , water (and the youth who warned those at home of the approach of a Koranna commando) , understanding (possessed by children) , understanding (possessed by grown-ups, or adults) , understanding (foolishness) , understanding (and the youth who pretended to be a foolish child, or simpleton) , understanding (and the youth who warned those at home of the approach of a Koranna commando) , wood-pigeons (their tails are worn by the Koranna war-party as war's things) , wood-pigeons (and the youth who warned those at home of the approach of a Koranna commando) , ostrich eggshells (are used to fetch water) , ostrich eggshells (are stopped up with grass) , ostrich eggshells (are carried fastened onto the back)
Story Pages
8251-8261, 8262-8268
