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EXTEACTS FROM REPORTS OF RECIPIENTS OF GIRANTS IN 
AID OF RESEARCH. 
Extract from Miss D. F. Bleelvs Report. 
I beg to report that I have this year been enabled by the balance of the 
grant made me by your Society in 1911 to take another trip into the 
Kalahari to obtain more material for the study of the Bushman language. 
On June 15th I left for Kanyein the Betshuanaland Protectorate. There 
I spent a few days making preparations, in which I was much assisted by 
the Rev. Williams. On June 23rd I set out by ox-wagon for the desert, 
accompanied by Miss Vollmer of Wynberg. We followed the trade route 
towards the west, passing Kooi and Legombe, and made our headquarters at 
Kakong, as we found there a large group of Bushmen, or Masarwa as they 
are called in this part of the country. Kakong is in the Kalahari on the 
road to Lehutitu, and has good wells ; hence it is the gathering-place of 
many kinds of natives. The Masarwas lived by themselves outside the 
villages of the Betshuana and the Bakalahari, in tiny bush huts scattered 
over the country. Each family has a hut or a couple of huts. The young 
girls walk several miles daily to get water from the wells, which they carry 
in ostrich eggshells slung in a skin. The men, though supposed to be the 
servants of certain Betshuanas, do little work for their masters. They spend 
most of their time trapping small game. Their families live on the meat 
obtained thus, on roots and berries collected by the women, and such small 
quantities of meal as they can buy with the skins of the game. 
The men were willing to come to the wagon daily, but expected gratuities 
for doing so, as did their masters for allowing them to come. Some of the 
women and girls came also. 
I took photographs of all, singly and in groups, also dancing. A good 
many of the negatives have not turned out well. However, I have sufficient 
photographs to show the type of native. 
I also took measurements of several Masarwas of either sex for Dr. 
Peringuey of the South African Museum, who had provided me vvith proper 
measuring instruments and helped the expedition in many ways. 
The Masarwa is not a pure Bushman ; there is evidently a fairly large 
admixture of Bantu blood in the race. Some individuals show this far more 
