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its existence in proximity to an encroaching agricultural 

 people of European blood. A terrible war of extermination 

 was waged against them by the Boers. The stories that are 

 told of this are shocking to our humanity ; and we cannot refuse 

 a tribute of admiration to these brave people, who in almost 

 every instance preferred death to surrender. Almost the only 

 exception recorded is that of a chief who, surrounded by foes, 

 replied to repeated calls to yield by arrows from his bow ; 

 at length, as these ran short, he accepted quarter and delivered 

 himself up, whereupon his brains were immediately blown out. 

 The last to be killed in this war was one of the painters. Upon 

 his body there was found a leathern belt with twelve little 

 horns strung to it, each containing a different pigment. 



We have spoken of the Bushmen in the past tense, for their 

 nation is destroyed ; a miserable remnant, however, lingers on 

 in the Kalahari desert, but these are slowly dwindling away 

 under the terrible hardships of an unfavourable environment. 



As we have seen, the Bushmen when we first knew them 

 inhabited the southernmost part of Africa, while Solutrian man 

 occupied at least a part of Europe. If then the European 

 Solutrians were the ancestors of the Bushmen, they must have 

 traversed the whole length of Africa before arriving at the 

 Cape ; and Stow, who possessed an unrivalled knowledge of 

 the Bushmen, was led by independent investigation to conclude 

 that the Bushmen must have migrated from the north, south- 

 wards ; he has even gone so far as to indicate their route. 

 One branch of the race kept more to the westward side of 

 the continent in their journey south, the other kept more to the 

 east. Stow asserted that the western branch were the painters, 

 the eastern the sculptors or engravers, and that where they 

 came in contact the two arts were intermingled, precisely as in 

 Solutrian Europe (fig. 10). But doubts have been expressed 

 as to the truth of this generalisation. 



This wonderful little people, who with an average of only 

 1,330 cc. of brain managed to accomplish so many great things, 

 is now practically extinct, but they leave behind an imperish- 

 able memory ; they have immortalised themselves in their art. 



