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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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