. Africana; or, The heart of heathen Africa. ^! took a Dictionary and went over it day afterday with the interpreters, noting down all the nativewords I could find. I also wrote a translation of severalpassages of Scripture from their lips. But I found theyoften had difiiculties. When I wished to translate theHail master of Judas, they said that there was noword for Hail, but (referring to English salutations. NATIVE FEMALE (TRIBAL MARKS, TATOOS AND LIP RING). 90 THE MISSION STATION. recently introduced) tliey assured me I would makenothing of it unless I said Morning IMaster. The kissed him w
. Africana; or, The heart of heathen Africa. ^! took a Dictionary and went over it day afterday with the interpreters, noting down all the nativewords I could find. I also wrote a translation of severalpassages of Scripture from their lips. But I found theyoften had difiiculties. When I wished to translate theHail master of Judas, they said that there was noword for Hail, but (referring to English salutations. NATIVE FEMALE (TRIBAL MARKS, TATOOS AND LIP RING). 90 THE MISSION STATION. recently introduced) tliey assured me I would makenothing of it unless I said Morning IMaster. The kissed him was a similar puzzle. For Jdss they gaveme one word which, as I afterwards discovered, meantto bite, and another which meant to smell! They couldcome no nearer the idea. No mother here kisses herchild. One has only to look at the photograph of anative female to see that she cannot kiss. Notwithstanding their residence at Cape Town thesemen were often unable to translate the most ordinaryEnglish into their own tongue, and yet they were betterinterpreters than any we could expect to train for severalyears. When I once tried hard to find a word forguilty, they could give nothing but the word bad. Onegentleman said that they had occasionally been offendersin Cape Town. He was sure that if I followed the usuallegal forms, and mentioned the sentence of workingfor a month at the docks, they had sufficient expe
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