<i>An account of the doings of a family of lions (apparently a continuation of one of the Ichneumon's speeches, in the myth of the Mantis) gives a good deal of conversation of such a description as might naturally be ascribed by Bushmen to lions (L II.-10. 1051-1099, 11. 1100-1170).</i> Also gives details of their sizes and roles in the pride, the teaching of young lions to hunt and other information about their hunting habits.
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1) This notebook is described in the contents page as being largely concerned with 'Natural History', 2) p.1087v: notes and a diagram depicting the hunting strategy of male and female lions in pursuit of quagga, 3) p.1097v: the male lion talks, but the female lion thinks and does not talk, 4) p.1103v: the |xam terms for dragging and carrying things, 5) p.1105v: different types of trees, 6) p.1113v: ||kabbo explains that lions drink water to mix with the dry bones and flesh to make them cool, 7) p.1142v: Lloyd writes that she has been wrong ('confounded') in her translations of |xam words that she has mixed up ('to lie' and 'to seek'), 8) p.1151v: pronunciation of the |xam term for 'eat', which is made in the throat so as to produce a sound that frightens away with the mouth, 9) See also <i>Lion eats all things</i>, 10) This story is found in Books II-10 and II-11
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