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‘can Association, 1904, the Bushmen of the Kalahari are 
probably distinct from the Drakensburg Bushmen ; this was also 
the view of Mr. A. A. Anderson. In the Northern Kalahari the 
Bushmen undoubtedly have a large admixture of other blood, and 
are much taller. Various weaker tribes have in the past been 
pressed back on the Desert by their more powerful neighbours, 
and are now in a state of serfdom ; these are collectively known as 
Bakalahari. The Bushmen near Lake Ngami, however, have 
little or no Bantu blood, and are of a very-low type; they speak 
with the click, and their language is almost impossible for a 
European to acquire. Both sexes wear the minimum of clothing. 
They are entirely nomadic in their habits; they never build any 
ind of hut, seldom even a shelter of branches, and they never 
cultivate the soil. They obtain fire by the friction of one stick 
working in the hollow of another. They subsist on succulent roots 
and on game and other animals shot with their poisoned arrows ; 
they are unsurpassed as trackers. They draw from the desert-pits 
their supply of water, which they will carry to great distances in 
ostrich egg-shells ; their need of water is slight. No game shot in 
the Desert is ever wasted; the Bushman, like the vulture, is 
hovering somewhere on the horizon, and as mysteriously appears at 
the death. His lean starved dog is fortunate if even a remnant of 
offal is available for him. 
Near the Lake the Batawana dwell. The origin of the tribe 
was as follows :—* About 100 years ago, the younger brother of 
the then Chief of the Bamangwato separated from them with his 
followers. His name was Tawana (young lion), and he went—or 
\ ost primitive type—their only imple- 
ment the typical hoe of Africa, fe ye ee - ‘eat "© sagnkey 
* Three Great African Chiefs, page 5, by Rev. E. Lloyd. 
