Chapter Twenty Nine.
Glossary.
NOTE.—The spelling of Cape Dutch and native names is in many cases not to be determined by recognised authority. The pronunciation cannot be quite accurately suggested through the medium of English. The figures of weights and measurements of animals are gathered from many sources, and refer only to first-class specimens. The weights are necessarily approximate.
AASVOGEL (d), a vulture (literally. carrion bird).
ANT-BEAR, AARDVARK (d) (Orycteropus jifer).
ANT-HEAP, mound made by termites or ‘white ants.’ Usually formed by one colony of ants; about two to four feet in base diameter and height, but often in certain localities very much larger. The writer photographed one this year near the scene of the Last Hunt, eighteen feet base diameter and ten feet high, and another in Rhodesia which formed a complete background for a travelling waggonette and six mules. In both cases these mounds were ‘deserted cities,’ and trees, probably fifty to one hundred years old, were growing out of them.
ASSEGAI (pronounced ass-e-guy) (n), native spear.
BAAS (d), master.