Note 2 — VII. HEITSI EIBIP AND OTHER LEGENDS.

Sir James E. Alexander, in his “Expedition of Discovery into the Interior of Africa,” vol. i. p. 166, speaking of the people at Warm Bath, or Nisbett Bath, says:—“These Namaquas thought that they came from the East. In the country there is occasionally found (besides the common graves covered with a heap of stones) large heaps of stones, on which had been thrown a few bushes; and if the Namaquas are asked what these are, they say that Heije Eibib, their Great Father, is below the heap; they do not know what he is like, or what he does; they only imagine that he also came from the East, and had plenty of sheep and goats; and when they add a stone or branch to the heap, they mutter, ‘Give us plenty of cattle.’ ” ↑