WORSHIP OF BALALA BUSHMEN. 181 
'Kaank ta, ha a ntanga e ? Kaang ta, 'gnu a 
kna a se'ge. Itanga 'kogu 'koba hu ; i'konte ; 
i'kage, itanga i'kogu 'koba hu ; 'kaang ta, 'gnu 
a kna a se'ge. 
The interpretation is thus : — 
"Lord, is it that thou dost not like me? 
Lord, lead to me a male gnu. I like much to 
have my belly filled ; my oldest son, my oldest 
daughter, like much to have their bellies filled, 
Lord, bring a male gnu under my darts." 
Such is their degraded, idolatrous worship ! 
They begin by questioning the love of their 
deity, and then conclude by grossly asking for 
flesh, and flesh only. Their mode of expression, 
also, is harsh and barbarous, and their croaking 
enunciation, when heard, is still worse. These 
people are, however, few in number, and their 
language may merely be regarded as a perver- 
sion of the Hottentot and Baroa tongues ; their 
dialects like themselves, are, happily, fast be- 
coming extinct. 
The last notice which we shall give of these 
tribes, is of the lowest, most degraded, and 
utterly savage beings, who, bearing the term 
"human," are to be found on the face of our 
globe. We here allude to the "Zulu Bushmen," 
or the " Natal Earthmen." 
These are but an outcast tribe, bordering on 
the Zulu country, and stretching far away into 
