The Lion's story

The Lion's story

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

!kweiten ta ||ken (Rachel) (VI)

<i>... the account of a man who, wishing to escape from a lion, cut off his sore leg, and ran successfully away upon the sound one. It was told by !kwéiten ta ||kên (L VI.-1. 3959-3969).</i> This is a story of the Early Race (or !khwe |na ss'e !k'e).

1) The page numbers in this book (VI-1) are duplicates of those in notebook IV-4, 2) p.3958v: this story was told to !kweiten ta ||ken by her mother (≠kamme-an), 3) This story is found in Book VI-1

story

22 December 1874 (started)

History (Early Race)

Early Race (the Lion's story), Early Race (the First Bushmen, or !khwe |na ss'e !k'e), Early Race (and man with sore thigh), Lion (its story), Lion (that chases man of Early Race), Lion (the man's escape from), Lion (|kantsi thorns pierce its feet), thorn (|kantsi), thorn (thrown down by the First Bushman man, pierce the Lion's feet), thorn (and Lion's story), thigh (the man cuts it off), thigh (and Lion's story), name (a thorn, |kantsi), name (the First Bushmen or !khwe |na ss'e !k'e)

3959-3969