Baboons speak Bushman, and have wives

Baboons speak Bushman, and have wives

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Dia!kwain (David Hoesar) (V)

<i>Baboons are said to speak the Bushman language and to possess wives. Their use of Ss'ó|õä, which informs them of matters otherwise unknown to them. In the Katkop dialect, by Díä!kwãin (L V.-24. 5924-5926, 5923 rev.-5925 rev.).</i> The sticks of <i>ss'o |a</i> tell the baboons things they do not know, such as things about people.

1) p.5923v: Dia!kwain heard this from his father (Xaa-ttin) and his grandfather, 2) See also <i>Baboons try to shoot people - means of preventing it</i> and <i>Baboons know our names </i>and<i> Baboon's ss'o |a and hair used as charms against illness</i>, 3) This story is found in Book V-24

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1 February 1876

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