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total number was estimated by the Transvaal military authorities at " a few hundreds." The Vaalpens were so called by the Boers from the dusty look of their bodies, due, it is said, to their See also:

HABIT (through the French from Lat. habitus, from habere, to have, hold, or, in a reflective sense, to be in a certain condition; in many of the English senses the French use habitude, not habit)

habit of crawling along the ground when stalking See also:

GAME

game. But their true See also:

COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour is See also:

black. In height the men See also:

AVERAGE

average about 4 ft., i.e. somewhat less than the shortest Bushmen. Socially the Vaalpens occupy nearly as See also:

low a position as even the Fuegians or the See also:

EXTINCT

extinct Tasmanians. They were nearly exterminated by the Aman'debele, a tribe of Zulu stock which entered the Transvaal about the beginning of the 19th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century. The Vaalpens, who live entirely by See also:

HUNTING (the verbal substantive from " hunt "; O. Eng. huntian, hunta; apparently connected with O. Eng. hentan, Gothic hinpan, to capture, O.H.G. hunda,booty)

hunting and trapping game, dwell in holes, caves or See also:

rock-shelters. They See also:

WEAR

wear capes of skins, and procure the few implements they need in See also:

EXCHANGE

exchange for skins, See also:

ivory or See also:

OSTRICH

ostrich feathers. They See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form See also:

FAMILY

family groups of See also:

THIRTY

thirty or See also:

FORTY

forty under a See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief or See also:

PATRIARCH (M.E. and O. Fr. patriarche, Lat. patriarcha, Gr. aarpuipxtis, from srarptu., clan, and apxil, rule)

patriarch, whose functions are purely domestic, as must be the See also:

case where there are no arts or See also:

INDUSTRIES

industries, nothing but a knowledge of hunting and of See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire with which to See also:

cook their meals. Their speech appears to be so full of clicks as to be incapable of expression by any clear phonetic See also:

SYSTEM

system. Hence it is impossible to say whether the Vaalpens possess any See also:

FOLKLORE

folklore or other oral literature analogous to that of the Bushmen.

End of Article: VAALPENS (dusty-bellies)

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