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the woman c who has fallen, and i would point the way to the others. Otherwise, 
if there is question of Matebeles, which is rendered plausible by the fact that 
(which evidently represents an enemy) is not larger in stature than those two, then 
éwould stoop to snatch the baby of the fallen woman, and i would strive-to catch 
up with the two women g and h, who flee before it. 
j. Lean not explain this unless as a diffusion of color, which has transformed into 
something unrecognizable the figure of the child carried by its mother, who has 
fallen, like b. 
i seems to be a woman resigned to her fate, who touches her neck with the left 
hand, unless, indeed, the line which I take to be the arm is the sketch of the thari 
with the baby. 
1. A woman who runs toward the looker-on. 
myenresents a woman who has sat down, perhaps in order to place her twins 
better in the thari, while behind her x arrives, preparing to spear her. With » the 
band of enemies begins plainly, 0 seeming to be the leader, who, standing still, gives 
the signal. But this figure must have been altered by the water, which by diluting 
the color of the body has made it appear as a garment. 
pand q. These admirable portraits of impetuosity and menace are a pictorial 
translation of the saying ‘‘ having long legs so as to run fast.” 
y. A fine type of an attitude in the poise of running. 
The author’s discussion respecting the difference in size between the 
male human figures mentioned as indicating their respective tribes 
would have been needless had he considered the frequent expedient of 
representing chiefs or prominent warriors by figures of much larger 
stature than that of common soldiers or subjects. This device is com- 
mon in the Egyptian glyphs, and examples of it also appear in the 
present work. (See Figs. 138, 139, and 1024.) 
Hai ie 2h . 
Fig. 142.—Petroglyph in Léribé, South Africa. 
The same author, loc. cit., gives a brief account of two petroglyphs 
found by him near Leribo, in Basutoland, South Africa. They were 
on a large hollow rock overlooking a plain where the bushmen might 
spy game. The rock was all covered with pictures to a man’s height. 
Many of them were entirely or almost entirely spoiled, both by the 
hands of herdsmen and by water running down the walls in time of 
rain. Some of them, however, are still very well preserved. They are 
shown on Fig. 143, 
The left hand character represents a man milking an animal; the 
latter, judging by the back part, especially by the legs, was at first 
taken for an elephant; but the fore parts, especially the fore legs, evi- 
dently are those of a bovine creature or of an elk (eland). The enormous 
proportions of the back part are probably due to diffusion of colors, 
