Baboons take a child

Baboons take a child

Wilhelm Bleek notebooks

|a!kunta (Stoffel) (I)

The story of the Hottentot boy carried off by Baboons, as told by Sir J. Alexander, translated by la!kúnta. (B I. 171-177.) <i>Baboons steal a Koranna boy-child and take him to their place where he becomes wild. Some |xam see the child and tell the Koranna about it. The child is fetched and taken back to his kraal.</i>

1) This story is found in Book I

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1871

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