Www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/book... . Eriods sans eau. Leur sagacité discoversthe quelques fontaines et bassins qui sont ici et là. Les habitants sont thehuman et Bakalahari Bushmen. Le Bush-Les hommes aiment le désert. Le Bakalahari aime la liberté. Theyfind la liberté dans le désert qu'ils ont perdu ailleurs ; donc, ils sont dans le désert. Il y a des usines dans ce wildernesswhich prendre la place des fontaines. Ils portent tout à fait un certain nombre de tubercules, qui sont remplis d'un endroit frais, liquide rafraîchissant ; thesetubers sont profondément enfouies loin sous la croûte. Ils sont par betrayedonly

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www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/book... . eriods without water. Their sagacity discoversthe few fountains and pools which are here and there. Thehuman inhabitants are Bushmen and Bakalahari. The Bush-men love the desert. The Bakalahari love freedom. Theyfind the freedom in the desert which they lost elsewhere; there-fore, they are in the desert. There are plants in this wildernesswhich take the place of fountains. They bear quite a numberof tubers, which are filled with a cool, refreshing liquid ; thesetubers are deeply buried far below the crust. They are betrayedonly by a stalk as large as a crows quill. There are vastquantities of watermelons in some years. Every living thingin the desert rejoices when these abound. But there were nonewhen Livingstones party was there. The human dwellers ofthe desert use all care in concealing the few watering-placeswThich exist. Art helps the desolation. The women have asingular method of obtaining water from these hidden pools.They gather about the spot with their vessels, which are only. BUSHMANS CAMP FOR THE LAKE NGAMI. 71 ostrich egg-shells, with a small hole in them. They thrust oneend of a small reed down to the water, and applying the lips tothe other end, suck up the precious fluid, which passes from themouth, through another reed or large straw, into the shell.Thus they improvise a pump. When they have filled a num-ber of shells, they are borne far away from the spot to theirhomes. Nobody finds water by finding the Bakalahari. Itsexistence is accounted their sacred secret. It is because thetribes outside can find no water that they are secure. The Bushmans security is in his poisoned arrows, which heuses with great cordiality when occasion demands it. TheBushmen are manly-looking and brave; the Bakalahari aremean-looking and timid. The weak and the strong, the braveand the timid, have each their reason for chosing this home;they find their interests identical, so they live together. TheBushmen are h

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