{"collection":"African","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/afr/sbf/sbf71.htm","path":"afr/sbf/sbf71.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/afr/sbf/sbf71.htm","text":"Specimens of Bushman Folklore, by W.H.I. Bleek and L.C. Lloyd, [1911]\nIt is |kwae[1]; it is ||kuarri juice. It is like a pumpkin, it is round. Its juice is white; it is like water. Its juice is not a little white; its whiteness resembles milk. It is poison.\nWe make an incision(?) (and) set it (the ||kuwarri) down; and then we hold a tortoise (shell) underneath it; because we wish its juice to be upon the tortoise (shell), that we may make ||kuae of it. And we warm (it) by the fire, making it hot; and we beat(?) it, when it is hot. Then, we beat(?), cooling it. And we take it up in this manner,[2] with a \"Driedoorn\" stick; we do in this manner to it, with the \"Driedoorn\" stick, as we make it round; while we think that we intend to make little springbok arrows.\n[1. The later spelling of this word has been followed in the translation, as probably more correct.\n2. The narrator here imitated the manner of taking lip the |kwae by means of rolling it upon a stick.]","title":"Specimens of Bushman Folklore: The Adhesive Substance Used By The Bushmen In Marking Arrows.","type":"page"}