An account of what the Anteater says various animals should eat, who they should marry, where they live, and what they look and smell like and why. This story is from the Early Times when people were animals. The animals all assent to what the Anteater says. <i>...The Anteater then lays down the law with regard to the proper food for different animals, and that their marriages should be suitable. They all listen to the Anteater, and also to the Lynx, who repeats to them the Anteater's words... she </i>[the Anteater]<i> again proceeds to deliver to the Lynx her important messages concerning the nature and habits of the different animals.</i>
Comments
1) pp.415-421 were translated with Dia!kwain's assistance on 5 March 1875, 2) Date on p.421: 11 August; p.445: 13 August; p.447: 25 August; p.467: 8 November, 3) p.416v: the <i>pau</i> bird (<i>≠ko a</i>) is described as a large bird with white neck and breast and a black back, which eats locusts, 3) p.420v: Dia!kwain (5 March 1875) notes the similarity between these stories<i> </i>told by ||kabbo and those his own mother told him. She was from the same part of the country as ||kabbo and was related to him. He also gives the genealogy and the names of mutual relations, 4) p.427v: descriptions of animals (especially snakes), 5) p.468v: a note by ||kabbo on a thorn tree's flowers which are pretty, large and white and blow in the wind, 6) p.470v: notes by ||kabbo describing various animals (especially types of mice), 7) See also <i>The Anteater, Springbok and Lynx (||kabbo's version 1)</i> and <i>The Anteater's stor</i>y <i>or The Anteater, Springbok, Lynx and Partridge</i> and <i>The Anteater, Springbok and Lynx (//kabbo's version 2)</i> and <i>The Korhaan marries his elder sister (the Anteater's laws) (//kabbo's version 2)</i>, 8) This story is found in Book II-3
Type
story
Date
August - November 1871 (parts translated in March 1875)
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