Thou smooth bulrush mat,
Thou whose neck is bent.
Thou who art made so as to be lifted up (upon a tree),
Who liftest thyself up.
Thou who wilt not die even behind that hill
Which is yet beyond those hills,
That lie on the other side of this far-distant hill.[1]
17. THE JUDGMENT OF THE BABOON.
(The original, in the Hottentot language, of this little Namaqualand Fable, is in Sir G. Grey’s Library, G. Krönlein’s Manuscript, pp. 33, 35.)