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LIFE OF MAKOON. 
[1820. 
going to another world when they died ; he said 
he did not know what other Bushmen thought 
about it, but when he died he knew that he 
should be eaten up by a wolf, and there would 
be an end of him. He added, that when a 
Bushman died, they made a grave and buried 
him in it with his face towards the rising sun. 
Were they to put his face towards the west, it 
would make the sun longer in rising the next 
day. He could not state any difference between 
a man and a brute — he did not know but a buf- 
falo might shoot with bows and arrows as well as 
a man, if it had them. How striking an indica- 
tion of the degraded condition of these wretched 
outcasts ! yet Makoon was one of the most intel- 
ligent I had seen among them. 
In describing their method of killing lions ; he 
said Bushmen knew when the lions went to sleep, 
and as they sleep very soundly, the hunters then 
advance with great caution and silence, and seize 
that opportunity for shooting poisoned arrows at 
them. Immediately after this, the Bushman con- 
ceals himself behind a tree or bush, and makes a 
great noise ; on which the terrified animal runs off, 
but the poison soon beginning to operate, befalls 
down and becomes an easy prey to the hunter. 
