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was in that war that I saw that I was really converted. I came home 
without stealing a horse or a cow out of the stock captured. 
Q. How long were you in the mountains with the Bushmen ? 
A. Nearly three years. 
Q. Did you pick up their language ? 
A. I got to hear {i.e., to understand) what they said, and I could talk 
a little with them. (Silayi here made use of some Bushman sentences 
which he remembered.) 
Silayi, his x mark. 
Witness, W. E. Stanford. 
The names given by Silayi were pronounced by him in Kafir, the 
language in which he was speaking. 
