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people continuously for several months together. On 

 many and many a night I have slept in their encampments 

 without even any Kafir attendants, and though I was 

 entirely in their power I always felt perfectly safe among 

 them. As most of the men spoke Sechwana I was able 

 to converse with them, and found them very intelligent, 

 good-natured companions, full of knowledge concerning the 

 habits of all the wild animals inhabiting the country in 

 which they lived. ... I have never seen their women 

 and children ill-treated by them, and I have seen both the 

 men and the women show affection for their children." 



Elsewhere Selous speaks of "John " — a member of the 

 close-related Korana clan — who was in his service, as 

 " of a pale yellow-brown colour, beautifully proportioned, 

 with small delicately made hands and feet." 



From preface by Henry Balfour to the book Bushmen 

 Paintings Copied, by Helen Tongue. 



"It is certain that the designs representing animals, etc., 

 which are painted upon the walls of their caves and rock- 

 shelters, frequently exhibit a realism and freedom in treat- 

 ment which are quite remarkable in the art of so primitive 

 a people. The skill with which many of the characteristic 

 South African animals are portrayed testifies not only to 

 unusual artistic efficiency, but also to a close observance 

 of and an intimate acquaintanceship with the habits and 

 peculiarities of the animals themselves. . . . The paintings 

 are remarkable not only for the realism exhibited by so 

 many, but also for a freedom from the limitation to delinea- 

 tion in profile which characterises for the most part the 

 drawings of primitive peoples, especially where animals are 

 concerned. Attitudes of a kind difficult to render were 

 ventured upon without hesitation, and an appreciation even 

 of the rudiments of perspective is occasionally to be noted." 



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