1) Inside front cover: 21.1.21., p.1: same date. ||axas; 2) p.198v: 221.1.21. |kwi |kais & |nu kaib, 12.12.21. ||axas; 3) p.199v: on bringing on birth, throwing away children whether stillborn or otherwise, burying them; 4) p.200v-204v: ≠nuku. 4.12.21 & 12.12.21: Naron[?] methods of making net & riempie, artefacts & dress, making weapons (spear) & selling/exchanging, reference to Saul's name (p.204v); 5) p.205: p.204v continued (12.21), on eating a nut; 6) p.206-7: About a chief (captain)at Olifantskloof and reference to land rule, succession & coming of Hottentots, 'work for them, do not make war'; 7) p.206v: 16.11.21. ||oba, married to Anni u, 13.12 on same page; 8) p.208: 11.12.21. ≠nuku; 9) p.209: some names of people and relations/terms for relations; 10) p.309v&210v: 11.12.21. Auen. Anni u, reference to place Kurikas; 11) p.211-: 'the Missus [DB] speaks for the Missus came to learn to talk', description of eating a cucumber, description of eating foodstuffs, sewing a sjambok, flowers; 12) p.213v: 13.12.21. Anni u; 13) p.216v: 23.1.21. Anni u; 14) p.217v: ||kweb & !nu kweb, 2 Naron boys, making a bullroarer and dancing rattles; 15) p.218v&19: making & using a digging stick, other artefacts, a description of when 'Hartebeest' was about and the making of markings on arm and between eyes, cutting of index finger, a related dance, a description of hunting ie things seen by the contributor; 16) p.219v: 'page 225 [or 8?]' and references to porcupine's hole, water bull, Mantis and rainfall; 17) p.221: Names of captains, places; 18) p.222v: 24.1.21. !nukwib & |ßkweb [same as |kweb & !nu kweb?], mention Namaqua language & Naron speech; 19) p.223 & 4&224v: making fire, cutting & piercing parts of the body; 20) p.225: on poisoning an arrow, cooking mieliemeal; 21) p.225v: on Bushman coffee, a reference to 'Hartebeest'; 21) p.227v: Saul and |kwi |kais (Naron), refer to 'Hartebeest'; 22) p.229v&230: 25.1.21. !nu kweb & Saul (Naron) describe hunting, collecting/carrying ostrich eggs, fetching water & wood; 23) p.231&v: on making a house & fire in it, Hartebeest comes and sits down; 24) p.232-233v: On hunting springbok & duiker; 25) p.233v: ||au||en. |uixamab (husband of Anni u?), making fire and bow, hunting; 26) p.235v: 26.1.21. !nu kai (previously !nu kwib) & Saul. Iron spear heads and bartering ostrich eggshell beads (for them?) as Auen do not work them; 27) 236v-40v: personal history and names of relations of !nu kweb (!nu kai), making and using a buchu preparation (possibly medicinal), eating a snake after removing the poison, flower necklaces which smell nice on the neck, reference to many children that have died and other personal history, making a kaross, how his leg broke in his mother's body [?]; 28) p.240v: 27.1.21 |kukurib. On ostrich & their eggs & habits, hunting ostrich, cooking & eating their eggs, carrying eggs with nets; 29) p.242v-244v: ≠nukai. Sentences including the making of iron spears by Auen but not Betchuana etc, personal history, how he is a cripple, where he used to live 'a thirsty land'; 30) p.245: 28.1.21. ≠nu kai. Working bones into implements, poisoning arrows; 31) p.244&v. ||axas. Putting flowering buchu around neck by maidens to dance, the eland dance; 32) p.248v&249v: 29.1.21. ≠nu kai. Animals of his land, cooking and eating anteater & porcupine 'nice meat it is', who eats what part; 33) p.249v: |kukurib. Personal history - his father's revenge on the Naron, killing many, he witnessed this war near Rietfontein; 34) p.250v: a description of an 'extraction' or 'doctoring' ritual using mouth, drawing bad things out, spitting, medicine etc - 'things much I give goods of all sorts presents I give doctorwomen there are extractors they are the men they work with, and the women they also work with'; 35) p.252v: Games played by Bushmen. Snake game, a description, the Ox dance; 36) p.253v&4: elephants & ostrich fight over water; 37) p.255v: 31.1.21. ≠nu kai. On lions, leopards and their prey, their habits; 38) p.257v: ||axas. On courting, game playing [?]; 39) p.258&v&259: On playing a game with a melon, on nursing & weaning milk-drinking and bigger children, their growth, on gathering food, eating; 40) p.259-60: |kukurib. When he was a boy he killed an eland, on hunting & getting cut from his personal experience, 'having cut you can shoot springbok well'; 41) p.261v: weather & seasons in his land, names of winds; 42) p.262v: Reference to Sand Bushmen (|xwabba kwen); 42) p.263v-265v: digging & grave and burial practices, actions of widow & his family; 43) p.265v-266v: 2.1.21. |kwi |kai. More about cutting (scarrification), greetings; 44) Inserts (10) in between 261v&262 on language.
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