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than others. I only saw two or three who might have been mistaken for the 
purer race found further south. In general appearance the Masarwa strongly 
resemble the Bushmen of the Nossop ; but they are a distinct tribe, acknow- 
ledging no relationship to the Nossop people, and speaking a separate 
language. 
The study of the language was the chief object of the journey, and I am 
glad to say that I obtained a large number of words and phrases sufficient 
to establish the position of Masarwa among the Bushman languages and 
dialects. It is most like the speech of the Nossop Bushmen, yet so different 
that I doubt any person of the one race understanding a person of the other. 
Two dialects of Masarwa came to my notice — one spoken in Kahia, and 
one used by a man from the Molepolole territory. The tribe seems to be 
spread over the country north of the Malopo and west of Lehutitu up to 
about the 22nd or 23rd degree of latitude. This statement is based on 
information gathered from the natives themselves and from traders. 
Extract from Miss A. W. Tucker^ s Report. 
I enclose with the report of my second Ethnological Expedition a detailed 
account of my expenditure on the actual expedition. 
In carrying out my work I was aided by funds from the Eoyal Society, 
the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, and the 
Witwatersrand Council of Education, and in March of last year I was 
elected Croll Scholar of the South African College in Cape Town. 
On May 3rd, 1913, 1 set out for Cape Town, where I made all my purchases 
for camping in Walfish Bay and German South West. Thence I proceeded 
overland to Springbok in Little Namaqualand to interview the ex-captain of 
the Bondelzwarts, and their leader in the late war against the G-ermans, 
Abram Morris. Their information was the more interesting in that the 
Bondelzwarts tribe is one of the oldest in Great Namaqualand, though since 
the German-Hottentot war it has practically ceased to exist as a separate 
tribe. Later on in Keetmanshoop I had an opportunity of interviewing 
some other of their chief men, but found that they could add but little to 
my knowledge ; indeed Abram Christian's words proved to be quite true, 
that all who knew anything of the tribal customs had perished in, or soon 
after the war. 
From Springbok I went to Walfish Bay, where I spent three months 
among the Topnaars, in many respects the most interesting of all the 
surviving tribes of Hottentots. The Topnaars dwell among the sand dunes 
of Walfish Bay and subsist upon the fruit of the Naras, a cucurbitaceous 
plant which grows only in this region. The fruit, which is a melon, is 
extremely nutritious and luscious, so that as long as it is in season the 
natives do not trouble about any other food. The territory inhabited by this 
