(The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir G. Grey’s
Library, G. Krönlein’s Manuscript, pp. 19, 20.)
The wild animals, it is said, were once assembled at the Lion’s. When
the Lion was asleep, the Jackal persuaded the little Fox [7] to twist a
rope of ostrich sinews, in order to play the Lion a trick. They took
ostrich sinews, twisted them, and fastened the rope to the Lion’s tail,
and the other end of the rope they tied to a shrub. When the Lion
awoke, and saw that he was tied up, he became angry, and called the
animals together. When they had assembled, he said (using this form of
conjuration)—
“What child of his mother and father’s love,
Whose mother and father’s love has tied me?”