No. VIII. 
BOOTCHUANA TALES. 
THE following absurd and ridiculous fictions are pre- 
sented to the notice of the reader only because they ex- 
hibit, in a striking manner, the puerile and degraded 
state of intellect among the natives of South Africa. 
Who can contemplate the ignorance and imbecility 
which marks this display of Bootchuana literature with- 
out the liveliest emotions of pity and concern? especially 
when it has been fully demonstrated, by many pleasing 
facts, that the African mind is capable by the blessing of 
God of entertaining the exalted views of revealed truth, 
and of escaping from the shackles of ignorance and the 
bondage of Satan. 
THE LIONESS AND HARE. 
There was a lioness that made a den, and had young 
ones; a hare came and lived with them. The lioness 
begged the hare to take care of her children, while she 
went out to hunt. During her absence, the hare killed 
one of the young lions, cooked it, and eat the whole, 
except one hind leg, which he preserved to present to the 
lioness on her return home. When she arrived, he 
pretended that he had killed another hare for his little 
brothers, the appellation which he gave to the young 
lions, and had preserved a leg for her. 
