Peringuey remarks also that the type was less dolichocephalic than the Bushmen and Hottentots, under 80 in cephalic index.
The relationship between the Bushmen and the Hottentots is another disputed question.
Early authorities regarded the Hottentots as the parent family, and the Bushmen as the offspring, but the researches of Gustav Fritsch, E.
On the west side the Bushmen are still heard of as far north as the Cunene, and in the interior beyond Lake Ngami nearly to the right bank of the Zambesi.
Rounded stones with a hole through the centre, similar to those which are used by the Bushmen in the south for weighting their digging-sticks, have been found at the south end of Lake Tanganyika.
For us the bush is never sad: Its myriad voices whisper low, In tones the bushmen only know, Its sympathy and welcome glad.
Bushmen all, your ear I call until I shall relate," and "The Old Soubungo Trail.
That must be the identical rock he squatted under while the Bushmenwere peppering him.
Well, we spent the day picking up a few other stones, and just as we were clearing out we were attacked by a lot of Bushmen or Korannas, or whatever they were, and had to run.
Then you really think theseBushmen are still knocking about the spot?
Some of the caves had skulls and bones in them, and were covered with Bushmen drawings, and I tell you I saw queer things done while I was with those fellows--things you'd never believe.
But for that same act of treachery, tardily repented of as it was, they would both have got out safe, for it was during the time thus lost that the horde of Bushmen and Korannas had stolen up to surprise them.
Awful part it was too; seemed to consist of nothing but great iron-bound krantzes and holes and caves--sort of place where nothing in the world could live but aasvogels and Bushmen and baboons.
The Bushmen were getting more and more scared, and began to lug me away.
Sprained my ankle just at the wrong time--those Bushmen devils coming on hard in our rear.
I wonder what the schelm Bushmen will think when they find that their `devil's eye' has knocked off shining," said Sellon.
You know Korannas and Bushmen are archers in contra-distinction to the assegai-throwing Kafir tribes.
There was a clan of Bushmen living in the krantzes there who seemed to watch the place as though it contained something sacred.
He got hit--bowled over by those cursed Bushmen or Korannas, or whatever they were.
True picture writing is not very common on the ancient monuments and is chiefly to be studied in the primitive writings of uncivilized tribes such as the Bushmen and the North American Indians.
Both of these kinds are found all over the world; most famously perhaps among the Australians, the Bushmen and the North American Indians.
The Korannas and Bushmen of the Cape save the Locusts in large quantities, and grind them between two stones into a kind of a meal, which they mix with fat and grease, and bake in cakes.
After this the Bushmen lit fires and began to feast upon the game we had killed.
Day was breaking when the fire reached long grass and brambles just beneath the summit among which the Bushmen lay concealed.
Besides, the suggestion towards this hunt came from the Bushmen themselves.
Then I heard a bird singing: I still wondered; but when I heard the Bushmen calling to me from the other side of the kloof, where the dead eland lay, the truth struck me in all its terror: I was blind.
I made friends with the wildBushmen who then dwelt on the mountain, and they used to drive the game for me.
I thought that on account of my friendship with Bangeni none of the Bushmen would harm me, and that my companions would be safe as well.
The desert, after rain, is full of wholesome vegetable food, and with this the Bushmen kept us well supplied.
The Bushmen were driving on a troop of elands, and I expected them to cross the saddle at the head of the kloof; so I left the horse concealed in a hollow and took my stand, with the rifle on my arm, at the foot of the rock.
Bushmen had not been giving much trouble of late years; however, I knew that they existed in considerable numbers in that particular area of the Great Desert.
One by one the water-places failed, and the Bushmen began to flock in to the bitter wells from every direction.
The mischief committed by the Bushmen at length became so bad that the people could stand it no longer, so Makomo called out an army for the purpose of clearing the mountains of these vermin.
The Bushmen still said that rain might come, and once, when the lightnings flickered on the north-eastern horizon, they held a dance to show their joy at the prospect of a deluge.
I suppose he's tramping somewhere, Where the bushmen carry swags, Cadging round the wretched stations With his empty tucker-bags.
The stockmen and the bushmen and the shepherds leave the station, And the hardy bullock-punchers throw aside their occupation.
What the Bunyip is, I cannot pretend to say, but I think it is highly probable that the stories told by both old bushmen and blackfellows, of some bush beast bigger and fiercer than any commonly known in Australia, are founded on fact.
From the trees sounds the shrill chirp of large green cicada (native cads as the bushmen call them).
One of the bestbushmen in that part of the country: the men said he could find his way over it blindfold, or on the darkest night that ever was.
It is invariably erect, never climbing, although bushmen and settlers frequently state that it climbs the loftiest trees, and sooner or later squeezes them to death in its iron clasp.
Hot climate and country work have brought in a fashion among bushmen of wearing a belt or leather strap round the top of trousers instead of braces.
Now, boys, stand up and sing God save our good old King, And Bushmen, Bushmen, Bushmen from the plains.
So when we ride away, Off hats and shout 'Hooray' For Bushmen, Bushmen, Bushmen from the plains.
In the ethnographical part a detailed description will be presented of this most peculiar race, of whom the Bushmen are evidently only a decrepid branch.
The poison with which the Bushmen tip their arrows, rendering them such dangerous and terrible weapons, is extracted from the "Cestrum venenatum.
And what greater joke could there be than that the bushmen should have eaten him?
The bushmen are as wild men as are to be found anywhere in the world to- day.
Returning to try to save the rifles and personal outfit, Binu Charley had seen a party of bushmentrotting down the trail, and had hidden in the bush.
Riding around the plantation will henceforth be good enough for me, or perhaps salving another Martha; but the bushmen of Guadalcanar need never worry for fear that I shall visit them again.
Whenever the gold-hunters moved their camp, the bushmen volunteered to carry the luggage.
They were bushmen themselves, and they were used to this silent warfare, though the devices were different from those employed by them in their own bush.
On their own side no one had been hurt, while half a dozen bushmen had been killed.
They swear there were two hundred war canoes around her inside half an hour, and five thousand bushmenon the beach.
But the patience of the bushmen had exceeded that of the white men.
Bushmen he no stop," Binu Charley called out, the sound of his voice startling more than one of them.
Gogoomy alone remained at large; and, as the pursuit closed in on him, he conquered his fear of the bushmen and headed straight in for the mountainous backbone of the island.
The bushmen swarmed in the camp in increasing numbers, and they were always making presents of yams and taro, of pig and fowl, and of wild fruits and vegetables.
A hundred miles or so farther on these villages ceased and thenceforward we only encountered some nomads, little bushmen who lived on game which they shot with poisoned arrows.
Later, when we were clear of the bushmen country, we let him depart, which he did with great rapidity.
Only bushmen and explorers can appreciate the intense enjoyment of a night of unbroken rest between the sheets, after knocking about for a length of time, catching sleep by snatches, and never knowing the luxury of undressing.
Their skin is sometimes used by bushmen as a cover to their waistbelts, which are much beautified thereby.
The "gnathic index" is said to show that Europeans andBushmen are orthognathous.
She has a keen, very keen, sense of the ridiculous; and some time or other she will amuse bushmen with the story.
We scuttled one, rolled ourself in a rug, and tried to sleep; but all night long overcoated and comfortered bushmenwould get in, let down all the windows, and then get out again at the next station.
Talking of killing bushmen before their time reminds me of some cases I knew.
Bushmen seldom grumble at an inconvenience of this sort, when it is caused by a funeral.
The fire would have mastered her but for four excited bushmen who arrived in the nick of time.
It is true the Bushmen were arrant thieves, and committed great havoc among the frontier farmers at various times, and it was both natural and right that these farmers should defend their homes and property.
There were no Bushmen running wild among the beautiful hills and valleys of Glen Lynden when Hobson and I entered it, but the region was not free, as I have related, from naked Kafirs, and it is still noted for its population of hairy baboons.
From what he saw, however, he was certain that either Kaffirs or Bushmen were on the rocks above him.
The rascals--yes, they have made the Bushmen understand that unless they shoot us with their poisoned arrows they will be themselves assagied.
The little reed flew on, and fell at the side of the tree near which one of the Bushmen was crouching.
That is good: if baboons come here, and stay here, it shows that neither Bushmen or other men have been much here lately, and so we may not be disturbed.
The mineral is supposed to be some preparation of copper, which the Bushmen find in the country; but about, this composition there seems considerable uncertainty.
The Bushmen finding that the Dutchmen kept under cover and gave no chance for a shot, requested to be allowed to ascend the rock and thus get a shot at their targets.
Giles was fortunate on this his first trip in having two able and willing bushmen for his companions; otherwise he would not have progressed as far as he did and returned in safety.
By the time he reached manhood, Hume was justly classed amongst the finest bushmen in the colony.
At first the loss of life was very great; for it was not likely that a district that could be safely traversed only by the hardiest and most experienced bushmen would freely yield its secrets to untried men.
The last sentence is very pregnant, and implies that a very poor opinion of the men as experienced bushmen was entertained by those who saw them.
Like the Bushmen and other Africans, the Bororos and Karayas believe that the Milky Way is an ash-track.
Bushmen tell of Kwai Hemm, the devourer, who swallows that great god, the mantis insect, and disgorges him alive with all the other persons and animals engulphed in the course of a long and voracious career.
Great masses of Englishmen were, for the time, in a mental state lower than that of remote tribes whom we regard as Bushmen and cannibals.
It was melancholy for him, as for any sentient creature, to contemplate the blind infatuation with which bushmengenerally squander their money; or, more properly speaking, allow themselves to be robbed of it.
I have slept quite comfortably when wearing a wool toque, and I have also used the loose hood, which is worn by most northern bushmen to keep the snow from getting inside of the clothing.
Many bushmen wind a strip of woolen blanket about the foot, and this has the advantage of being cheaper than extra socks.
The Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert are shorter than their Hottentot kindred who pasture their flocks and herds in the neighboring grasslands.
In a like manner a very definite conception of tribal ownership of land prevails among the Bushmen and Bechuanas of South Africa; and to the pastoral Hereros the alienation of their land is inconceivable.
At any rate, in Africa there are several groups of pygmies in the Congo region, as well as the Bushmen and allied stocks in South Africa.
The Pygmies of the Congo region have medium heads; the Bushmen of South Africa, usually regarded as akin in race, have long heads.
In the mean time the disappointed Bushmen had turned upon those near, and were letting fly their arrows from the bushes in which they were concealed; and continued thus to assail them till the party arrived at the open plain.
If the bushmen stole a few head of cattle, complaints were immediately forwarded to Cape Town, and permission asked to raise a force, and recover them from the Caffres.
But Swinton observed, that it would be necessary to keep a very sharp look-out, as the women were invariably sent by the Bushmen as spies, that they might watch the opportunity for stealing cattle.
The unicorn is, no doubt, the gemsbok antelope; for when you look at the animal at a distance, its two horns appear as if they were only one, and the Bushmen have so portrayed the animal in their caves.
An attempt was made to open a communication with them, but in vain, as when any of the party advanced on horseback towards them, the Bushmen made a precipitate retreat.
Indeed the lions were now not so numerous as they had been, and they had more to fear from the Bushmen and the hyenas, which were very plentiful.
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