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saw the " Vaalpense,"" use the stone fixed at the top end of the 

 stick. " Men, women, and children all dug with it." 



I succeeded in procuring the photograph here produced of what 



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is plainly intended to be an old Bushwoman using the ! kwe. But 

 these people are so eager to say, " Yah, baas," i.e., to assent to 



* The " Vaalpense," so-called by the Dutch, would seem to be not Bush people, 

 but very degraded Bechuanas, belonging therefore to the Bantu-speaking race 

 which we call generally Kaffir. 



