What ||kabbo said about his intended return home to Bushmanland
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What ||kabbo said about his intended return home to Bushmanland
Collection
Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks
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||kabbo (Jantje) (II)
Summary
<i>//kábbo's intended return home. He awaits the Moon that he may return, and hear the Bushman stories. Here he works woman's work, while his comrades at home hear histories that travel; but he does not visit, as they do. The people down here do not talk his language; they visit their like, and are work-people who keep houses in order, and plant food. The Flat Bushmen visit and smoke at each other's houses, and listen to histories. On his return to Bushmanland, he intends to put his former house in order, and reassemble his children. He inherited his place, and brought his wife to it (L II.-32. 2874-2925 rev.). </i>||kabbo explains that 'a story is like the wind' on p.2875v.
Comments
1) Reverse of frontispiece (Book II-32): ||kabbo gives the other name (which is the same) of the Sun and the Moon; also, a note by |a!kunta on the Moon who is 'a man who knows all places', 2) p.2875v: ||kabbo explains that 'a story is like the wind', 3) p.2885v: ||kabbo says that stories follow one along a road one has travelled, 4) p.2889v: ||kabbo says that the people know all the 'returning' man's names, 5) p.2916v: on containers for water, 6) This story is found in Book II-32
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