THE LAST OF THE BUSHMEN 23 



occupied the scenes of our wanderings had 

 long-since disappeared from the face of the 

 earth. Within the wide bounds of that tract 

 to which the Bushman gave his name, there 

 existed but two individuals of his race, — an 

 old, withered, toothless man, and a bent and 

 ancient crone. These wraiths, who subsisted 

 on roots, reptiles and insects, still haunted the 

 mountains near Dabienoras, and levied a kind 

 of toll on the very occasional traveller. This 

 took the form of a trifling contribution of 

 tobacco and sugar. 



