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came to live near Kars, but all his forefathers had 
died ignorant of this knowledge. He said the 
Bushmen knew something of the devil ; as for 
himself, he believed him to be a rogue, and that 
his blood was like that of the Bushmen. He 
knew this because the people sometimes killed 
him, and saw his blood. On asking how they 
could kill the devil more than once, he replied 
that he came to life again, and that he can kill 
people with fire, not thunder, but a peculiar kind 
of fire of his own. 
Bushmen, said he, do not think they have 
souls, yet they die one after another, burying 
the young people, and throwing the old to the 
wild beasts. Here Kars, the Griqua, said that 
the Bushman sitting yonder (pointing to a man 
in the tent) had an aged mother-in-law. During 
the absence of the son-in-law from home, her own 
daughter, who is his wife, dragged the old 
woman into the field, and left her alive among 
the bushes, where she was torn to pieces by the 
wolves that same night. On asking the man if 
he did not think it cruel to drag the poor woman 
to the field to perish ? With the utmost indiffer- 
ence, he answered, that it was not he but his wife 
who did it. The other day, when this same 
Bushman was chastising one of his children, an 
elder son took his bow, and would certainly have 
shot the father, had he not been prevented by a 
