<i>The narrator's own hunting adventures. He kills a hyena and her two young ones, and shoots some springbok which had been startled by a lion. The presence of jackals indicates the lion's whereabouts. In a general hunt, the lion is killed, but not before it had broken the knee-bone of a man, who dies from loss of blood. After his burial, the Bushmen remove to another place, so that the children may not be thinking of their father, and wanting to cry. In the Katkop dialect, by ≠kasin (L IV.-2.3534-3585). </i>The hunter covers the bodies of the springbok with bushes and sees a lion. He carries a springbok home and explains to the people why he could not bring home more. The people go with him to fetch the other three springboks and find the lion and shoot at it. The lion bites one of the old men in the hunting party and the other men stab at it until it lets go.
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1) Date on p.3539: 20 November; p.3583: 19 February 1874, 2) Pages 3586-3607 in this notebook are blank, 3) This story is found in Book IV-2
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