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logically; a Hollander married a Buginese Malay; his daughter 

 married a deserter from a man-of-war with a Dutch alias ; his 

 daughter, again, married the coloured son of a Hollander, and 

 their son, an excellent and much-respected man, married the 

 daughter of a Hottentot (half Griqua, half Namaqua). He 

 was the heir to a peerage — so I was told, but I fancy a 

 baronetcy. The heir's brother, a captain in the Royal Navy, 

 landed one day, took the heir for a walk, and got him to 

 renounce the title, and his son by another wife burnt his papers 

 in a drunken fit. 



Appendix I. 



At Grootfontein my interpreter was a Hei//om Bush woman. 

 The tribal name is Nania for Bush-sleeper. The prisoners, whom 

 I was kindly permitted by the authorities to interview, gave their 

 names as Ogneisi, a Qouxa, Cui, a Ncamsib, and Cuii, the same, 

 all from Gcigcum, far away in the Government Farm direction. 

 As Kaffir students are more frequent than those of Bushmen, I 

 write the clicks as in that language so far as possible, but some- 

 times the click has to be placed before the qualifying k, g, etc., 

 which really seem to have here a guttiiral force in Bushman : the 

 phonetics of clicks, however, is too deep a subject to embark on 

 here. The alveolar and labial (a kiss) remain t and O, as in 

 Bleek. My English or German word was given the interpreter in 

 the Nama Hottentot, which occupies the fourth column, as I heard 

 it. The third column gives the Nama, as it appears in the voca- 

 bularies (Meinhof, Kroenlein, Seidel, represented by their 

 initials)- The fifth column gives the prisoners' Bushman ver- 

 sion, again as I heard it, and the last column the Bushman 

 forms collected by our sole surviving Bushman authority, Miss 

 Doris Bleek, whose very generous help in the matter I beg most 

 gratefully to acknowledge, and to the publication of whose great 

 Bushman dictionary we all eagerly look forward. The first 

 column gives a transcript of seSarwa made at Molepolole. It 

 probably needs much revision, but is evidently very remote from 

 the other Bushman, and even No. 4 below (v. stone, leopard). 

 The acute accent represents stress, and usually high tone with 

 it. Grave accents mean low tone. 



I learn that Bushman falls into six groups, which are denoted 

 by their numbers below : 



1. South of the Orange, the cXam-ka qk'e, people of cXam 

 (my X is the Du. g). 



2. North of the Orange, from Rietfontein to the Vaal, the 

 xn (the second sound the ringing final of sing; vowels are 

 nasalised with the same notation). These two named one an- 

 other by the curse word Qnu, and spoke dialects as different as 

 Du. and Germ. 



3. On the Qnossop (W. Kalahari) the xnuna or Xatia. 



