Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 58The Museum, 1981 - Natural history |
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P. 176 Xhosa : dogs ' From some fires being seen at no great distance from the place of our encampment and from the perpetual barking of the dogs after it grew dark , we began to suspect that our motions were watched by the spies of one ...
P. 176 Xhosa : dogs ' From some fires being seen at no great distance from the place of our encampment and from the perpetual barking of the dogs after it grew dark , we began to suspect that our motions were watched by the spies of one ...
Page 270
Dogs Dogs have always been kept as hunters . The majority , and the only sort seen today , are mongrels , of the sort that were used in rounding up the game with the beaters . The Xhosa used to have a large greyhound type of special ...
Dogs Dogs have always been kept as hunters . The majority , and the only sort seen today , are mongrels , of the sort that were used in rounding up the game with the beaters . The Xhosa used to have a large greyhound type of special ...
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dogs accompany the chief . The ordinary warrior's spear - Assegai - is the only weapon . I of course speak of the custom before the natives became familiar with fire - arms ... I am not aware that natives ever succeeded in killing full ...
dogs accompany the chief . The ordinary warrior's spear - Assegai - is the only weapon . I of course speak of the custom before the natives became familiar with fire - arms ... I am not aware that natives ever succeeded in killing full ...
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According Alberti animals assegai Baines baskets beer Bhaca bird-lime birds Bizana blade Bo Mp Bomvana bows and arrows boys bundle Bushmen Caffre calabash Cape Nguni Cape tribes carried cattle chief club confirmed Curtisia diameter Döhne eene eenen Elliotdale 1948 Fingo fire-sticks fish Fritsch grain grass grinding-stones Griqualand East ground Hammond-Tooke hand handle hide Hlubi Hottentots Hunter hunting intonga iron isithebe Kaffir kill Kiri knife knobbed sticks knobkerries kraal Lichtenstein 1811 Lusikisiki maize meat milk milk-basket milk-sack mortar and pestle mortars Mp Xes Mpondo Mpondomise Mt Ayliff noose okanye pestle PLATE plough Pondoland pots pron quiver Schild shaft Shaw shield Xhosa skin snare sneezewood Soga Sotho spade spear spears Xhosa spoon stabbing Stavenisse stone Thembu thong threshing throwing Transkei trap umnqayi Umtata utensils weapons Willowvale women wood wooden wordt X-McLaren Xes Bh Xesibe zeer zich zijn Zoll