The Masarwa Bushman

Here is a Military figure, that of a Masurwa bushmau. engaged in digging up bulbs as a food supply. These bulbs, sinall, ronnd and sinooth and of a sweet, nutty flavor, are exactly the sanie as those tor whioh the guinea fowls are searching so eagerly. They may be called the bushman's bread, and when game is scarce or huntiug luck is out they serve as a inainstay against uttet starvation. The busbroan collects his bulbs in the shell of a tortoise and presently will return to the protecting bush beneath which heaud hisfarnily slept lastnight After that he will perhaps visit a snare he set yesterday to entrap a duyker, one of the small antelopes of South África, or, failiug the capture of the little buck, he may try to stalk a paauw with his bow and poisoned arrow or follow tlie troop of guinea fowls on the off chance oí seuuriug a