440 
BUSHMEN. 
[1813, 
When any of them has a broken limb, they sow a 
piece of skin tight round it. They are considerably 
affected when any person is likely to die, and make 
lamentations over them, and continue doing so for 
several days. Friends attend their funeral, and when 
buried, they stick the person's bow and staff into the 
grave, and surround it with a hedge. Sometimes 
when a person is sick, they will send for one who is 
reputed a witch or wizard, who dances round them, 
and exercises some pretended influence. They believe 
that such a person has power to inflict death ; indeed 
they think that but for them no person would die. 
They sometimes quarrel among themselves, and 
fight with their poisoned arrows, but generally these 
quarrels are soon over, when they become good friends 
again. The manner in which any discover superiority 
of talent is by speaking more fluently, making better 
bows and arrows, and being more expert in shooting 
game. They have frequent wars with their neighbours, 
as well as among themselves. Their wars with their 
neighbours arise from their stealing cattle from them ; 
and those among themselves are about their ground, 
for each has a range which he calls his own, so that if 
others pick roots used for food from it, or gather honey 
on it, they are considered as aggressors. 
Their number cannot be great — not more than a 
few thousands. Some of them begin to keep cattle, 
which they never did before. When the ground is so 
dry that none of their instruments can penetrate it, so 
