[1] Sassaby (also spelt Sesseby) or Bastard Hartebeest are much
smaller than the Hartebeest proper, and are found in open veld near
forest country.
[2] The Hyena, on first starting, appears lame in the hind legs--a
fact accounted for by the Hottentots in the foregoing fable.
[3] "Berry, berry, blackberry,
Hold your hands together."
[4] The Kaap--Cape Town.
[5] It is both curious and interesting to find the identical belief
obtaining amongst races so widely different as the Scandinavians of
Northern Europe and the Bushmen of South Africa.--See Hans Andersen's
Little Match Girl: "Her Grandmother had told her that when a star
fell down a soul mounted up to God."
[6] "When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God
shouted for joy."--Job xxxviii. 7.
[7] According to a Hottentot legend, the hare is related to the donkey.
[8] Voertsed.--Evidently a word of Outa's coining, meaning to jump
round suddenly and violently.
[9] Mountain tortoise.
[10] An aromatic veld herb, from which a decoction is made. Sprinkling
buchu under the arm is a Hottentot custom in token of approval.
[11] The Mimosa, which is white when burnt by the sun.