Note 1 — V. VARIOUS FABLES.

An Elephant, it is said, was married to a Nama Hottentot woman, whose two brothers came to her secretly, because they were afraid of her husband. Then she went out as if to fetch wood, and putting them within the wood, she laid them on the stage.1 Then she said, “Since I married into this kraal, has a wether been slaughtered also for me?” And her blind mother-in-law answered, “Umph! things are said by the wife of my eldest son, which she never said before.”