Missionary labours and scenes in Southern Africa .. . One of the accompanying sketches represents aBushman and a woman. The man has his bows,quiver, and poisoned arrows ; and both he and thefemale are fair specimens of the general appearance of that people. The other sketch exhibits a strata-gem, by which the Bushman approaches to game,in the garb of the ostrich. The method is ingenious,though extremely simple. A kind of flat double. >v^w: cushion is stuffed with straw, and formed somethinglike a saddle. All, except the under part of this, iscovered over with feathers, attached to small peg
Missionary labours and scenes in Southern Africa .. . One of the accompanying sketches represents aBushman and a woman. The man has his bows,quiver, and poisoned arrows ; and both he and thefemale are fair specimens of the general appearance of that people. The other sketch exhibits a strata-gem, by which the Bushman approaches to game,in the garb of the ostrich. The method is ingenious,though extremely simple. A kind of flat double. >v^w: cushion is stuffed with straw, and formed somethinglike a saddle. All, except the under part of this, iscovered over with feathers, attached to small pegs. and made so as to resemble the bird. The neck andhead of an ostrich are stuffed, and a small rod in-troduced. The Bushman intending to attack game. TOPOGRAPHY OF NAMAQUA-LAND. whitens his legs with any substance he can places the feathered saddle on his shoulders,takes the bottom part of the neck in his right hand,and his bow and poisoned arrows in his left. Suchas the writer has seen were the most perfect mimicsof the ostrich, and at a few hundred yards distant itis not possible for the human eye to detect thefraud. This Intmati bird appears to pick away at theverdure, tiu-ning the head as if keeping a sharplook-out, shakes his feathers, now walks, and thentrots, till he gets within bow-shot; and when theflock runs from one receiving an arrow, he runs male ostriches will on some occasions give chaseto t
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