This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...the Magellanic Clouds, the steinboks; Achernar, the stone of the digging-stick. They have names also for the planets, and to these again they attach myths. A girl of an earlier race wished to make a light so that people might find their way home; she threw red-hot ashes into the sky, and these became stars. The lions ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...the Magellanic Clouds, the steinboks; Achernar, the stone of the digging-stick. They have names also for the planets, and to these again they attach myths. A girl of an earlier race wished to make a light so that people might find their way home; she threw red-hot ashes into the sky, and these became stars. The lions of the Southern Cross became stars through a look. There were two pairs of birds--one of them being cranes, --and the male birds were roasted by the lions. The Ki hen rejected the flesh of her husband when it was offered to her; but the blue crane accepted it, and got eaten too. Then Ki went with her child to the crow that lives in the thorn-bush, who drew her up with a cord of gemsbok-hide. The crow made a fire and heated stones. Gu, the lion, who was following Ki, came and wanted to be pulled up too. By direction of the crow, Ki let down a cord of mouse's entrails; it broke, and the lion tumbled into the fire. The other lion, Thane ta hou, came up, attracted by the smell of meat, the birds having meanwhile departed; he took a piece of meat out of the flank of his friend, who suddenly woke up, and wanted a bit of his own meat, and the two ate it together. Then they went hunting, but in vain, till they saw a male tortoise, and Gu swallowed it without sharing it with his companion. After that, as soon as he came near water the tortoise called to it to dry up; when game approached he bade it run away; and when men came it begged them to throw firebrands at the lion. So the two lions took nothing. Even a lame old woman who lived with a young hare escaped them. It was not till Gu had died of hunger that the other lion got food again. A Bushwomnn. (From a photograph by Dr. Fritsch.) The planet Jupiter, called "the heart of the twilight," ha...
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