Jackal's song (and The song of the Caama Fox)

Jackal's song (and The song of the Caama Fox)

Wilhelm Bleek notebooks

||kabbo (Jantje) (II)

The Jackal's song in which it sings of how it avoids being hunted by circling back and crossing the spoor of the dogs that chase it.

1) The <i>!gwiten</i> is otherwise known as <i>Vulpes Caama</i> or the caama fox (or the jackal), 2) <i>The song of the Caama fox</i> appears on pp.2158v-2159v, 3) This story is found in Book XXIII

story

1873

Poetry

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2158-2159