These eggs form a considerable item in the Bushman's cuisine, and the shells are converted into water-flasks, cups, and dishes. I have often seen Bushgirls and Bakalahari women, who belong to the wandering Bechuana tribes of the Kalahari desert, come... The Boy's Own Natural History - Page 38by John George Wood - 1882 - 64 pagesFull view - About this book
| Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming - 1850 - 336 pages
...and dishes. I have often seen Bushgirls and Bakalahari women, who belong to the wandering Bechuana tribes of the Kalahari desert, come down to the fountains...fill with water, and cork up the hole with grass. A favorite method adopted by the wild Bushman for approaching the ostrich and other varieties of game... | |
| Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming - 1850 - 434 pages
...and dishes. I have often seen Bush-girls and Bakalahari women, who belong to the wandering Bechuana tribes of the Kalahari desert, come down to the fountains...kaross or a network containing from twelve to fifteen ostrich-egg shells, which had been emptied by a small aperture at one end : these they fill with water... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1850 - 910 pages
...water-flasks, cups, and dishes. I have often seen girls, who belong to the wandering tribes of the Ualahadi desert, come down to the fountains from their remote...network, containing from twelve to fifteen ostrich egg. shells, which had been emptied by a small aperture at one end ; these they fill with water, and... | |
| Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming - 1850 - 340 pages
...and dishes. I have often seen Bushgirls and Bakalahari women, who belong to the wandering Bechuana tribes of the Kalahari desert, come down to the fountains...distance, each carrying on her back a kaross or a net- work containing from twelve to fifteen ostrich egg-shells, which had been emptied by a small aperture... | |
| 1851 - 604 pages
...water-flasks, cups, and dishes. I have often seen girls, who belong to the wandering tribes of the Ualahadi desert, come down to the fountains from their remote...fill with water, and cork up the hole with grass. " A favorite method adopted by the wild Bushman for approaching the ostrich and other varieties of game,... | |
| 1853 - 390 pages
...and dishes. I have often seen Bush-girls and Bakalahari women, who belong to the wandering Beclmana tribes of the Kalahari desert, come down to the fountains...amazing distance, each carrying on her back a kaross of network containing from twelve to fifteen ostrich-eggshells, which had been emptied by a small aperture... | |
| Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming - 1855 - 440 pages
...and dishes. I have often seen Bush-girls and Bakalahari women, who belong to the wandering Bechuana tribes of the Kalahari desert, come down to the fountains...kaross or a network containing from twelve to fifteen ostrich-egg shells, which had been emptied by a small aperture at one end : these they fill with water... | |
| Roualeyn Gordon Cumming - 1856 - 434 pages
...and dishes. I have often seen Bush-girls and Bakalahari women, who belong to the wandering Bechuana tribes of the Kalahari desert, come down to the fountains from their remote habitations, each carrying on her back a kaross or network containing from twelve to fifteen ostrich-egg shells,... | |
| Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming - 1860 - 650 pages
...belong to the wandering Bechuana tribes of the Kalahari desert, come down to the fountains from atheir remote habitations, sometimes situated at an amazing...fill with water, and cork up the hole with grass. A favorite method adopted by the wild Bushman for approaching the ostrich and other varieties of game... | |
| Julius de Mosenthal, James Edmund Harting - 1877 - 318 pages
...twelve to fifteen eggshells, which have 1 Layard, " Birds of South Africa," p. 281. 2 See ante, p. 18. been emptied by a small aperture at one end ; these they fill with water, tightly closing up the hole with grass. A group of women thus employed will be found depicted in Livingstone's... | |
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