(The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir G. Grey’s
Library, G. Krönlein’s Manuscript, pp. 29, 30.)
The Lion, it is said, was ill, and they all went to see him in his
suffering. But the Jackal did not go, because the traces of the people
who went to see him did not turn back. Thereupon, he was accused by the
Hyena, who said, “Though I go to look, yet the Jackal does not want to
come and look at the man’s sufferings.”
Then the Lion let the Hyena go, in order that she might catch the
Jackal; and she did so, and brought him.
The Lion asked the Jackal: “Why did you not come here to see me?” The
Jackal said, “Oh no! when I heard that my uncle was so very ill, I went
to the witch (doctor), to consult him, whether and what medicine would
be good for my uncle against the pain. The doctor said to me, ‘Go and
tell your uncle to take hold of the Hyena and draw off her skin, and
put it on while it is still warm. Then he will recover.’ The Hyena is
one who does not care for my uncle’s sufferings.”
The Lion followed his advice, got hold of the Hyena, drew the skin over
her ears, whilst she howled with all her might, and put it on.