rue, just as these and other simiae are in some points frightfully
human.

The Bakalahari are traditionally reported to be the oldest of the
Bechuana tribes, and they are said to have possessed enormous herds of
the large horned cattle mentioned by Bruce, until they were despoiled
of them and driven into the Desert by a fresh migration of their own
nation. Living ever since on the same plains with the Bushmen, subjected
to the same influences of climate, enduring the same thirst, and
subsisting on similar food for centuries, they seem to supply a standing
proof that locality is not always sufficient of itself to account for
difference in races. The Bakalahari retain in undying vigor the Bechuana
love for agriculture and domestic animals. They hoe their gardens
annually, though often all they can hope for is a supply of melons and
pumpkins. And they carefully rear small herds of goats, though I have
seen them lift water for them out of small wells with a bit of ostrich
egg-shell, or by spoonfuls. They generally attach themselves to
influential men in the different Bechuana tribes living adjacent to
their desert home, in order to obtain supplies of spears, knives,
tobacco, and dogs, in exchange for the skins of the animals they may
kill. These are small carnivora of the feline species, including two
species of jackal, the dark and the golden; the former, "motlose"
('Megalotis capensis' or 'Cape fennec'), has the warmest fur the country
yields; the latter, "pukuye" ('Canis mesomelas' and 'C. aureus'), is
very handsome when made into the skin mantle called kaross. Next in
value follow the "tsipa" or small ocelot ('Felis nigripes'), the "tuane"
or lynx, the wild cat, the spotted cat, and other small animals. Great
numbers of 'puti' ('duiker') and 'puruhuru' ('steinbuck') skins are got
too, besides those of lions, leopards, panthers, and hyaenas. During the
time I was in the Bechuana country, between twenty and thirty thousand
skins were made up into karosses; part of them were worn by the
inhabitants, and part sold to traders: many, I believe, find their way
to China. The Bakwains bought tobacco from the eastern tribes, then
purchased skins with it from the Bakalahari, tanned them, and sewed them
into karosses, then went south to purchase heifer-calves with them, cows
being the highest form of riches known, as I have often noticed from
their asking "if Queen Victoria had many cows." The compact they
enter into is mutually be