344 OF THE WILD BUSHMEN. 
When a Bushman has no tobacco, instead of saying so, 
like other natives of Africa already noticed, he says he 
cannot smoke ; if without food, he cannot eat ; or if 
destitute of water, he cannot drink. 
In the Bushmen country it has been known that 
quachas, baboons, and springboks, when pursued by 
beasts of prey, have fled to man for protection. 
At one of the Missionary stations in that country, the 
first time the Missionaries began digging a piece of 
ground with spades, a mob of Bushmen collected to 
witness the operation, and expressed the greatest surprise 
at the quantity turned up in so short a time. 
