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. 



