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The cat took no notice of this, going on using the same name, so 
the devil got into a passion, walked up to the cat, and aimed a heavy blow 
at him. The cat very dexterously avoided it by quickly burying its head 
under the sand, and so the devil struck only the sand. 
The cat then jumped out quickly and dealt him a heavy blow before 
he was ready. The devil recovered and aimed another heavy blow 
at the cat, but, as before, this was avoided by the cat again burying 
his head in the sand, and, as before, he jumped out quickly and dealt the 
devil another blow. This was repeated several times until at last the devil 
had to run away. When he stopped to fight, the devil put down his 
quiver with arrows and also his bow, which he had no time to pick up 
when he ran away, but he possessed the power of calling these things 
to follow him. 
When the devil went out another time he found the meercats following 
the spoor of a wounded eland which had been wounded by one of the 
meercats with a poisoned arrow ; the devil said in a very contemptuous 
way, " What funny people they are, such insignificant-looking people,, 
so small in stature ! " 
He spoke thus in order to provoke their anger, and to pick a quarrel 
with them, but the meercats took no notice of all this. They quietly 
followed the eland's spoor. As the devil could not make them angry^ 
he went and pushed the leader off the spoor and followed the spoor 
himself, but the meercat came and pushed him off very violently, and 
said, " Gar-'argi'-innim ", meaning, I am a big man, I carry a beard." 
but the devil pushed him off again. This was done repeatedly until at last 
they came to blows. The meercat, being a very clever fighter, soon gained 
the upper hand ; in a short time there was nothing left for the devil but 
flight. The meercats then followed up the spoor of the eland peacefully^ 
and captured their game without any further disturbance from the devil." 
These stories go to show that the Bushmen believe in an evil spirit. 
In the above I have endeavoured to portray the nature, superstitions, 
and customs of the Bushmen living in Little Bushmanland, being now a, 
portion of the Fraserburg, Calvinia, Carnarvon, and Kenhardt districts of 
the Province of the Cape of Good Hope. 
ADDITIONAL NOTES. 
By L. Peringuey. 
(1) The Digging Stick. 
I had lately at the Museum five colonial Bush people — two old men^ 
one old woman, and two youths — from the Carnarvon and Prieska dis- 
tricts, and as purely bred as any to be found at present. After we had gained 
