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The Bushmen’s letters are in their bodies.* They speak, they move, they make the Bushmen’s bodies move. The Bushmen order the others to be silent; a man is altogether still when he feels that his body is tapping inside. A dream speaks falsely, it is a thing which deceives. The presentiment is that which speaks the truth. The Bushmen perceive people coming by means of it. The Bushmen feel a tapping when other people are coming. Therefore we are wont to wait quietly when the sensation is like this, when we are feeling the things come, while the things come near the house.1

* ‘The word !gwē was used by the Bushmen to denote both letters and books. //kabbo explained that the beatings in their bodies here described are the Bushmen’s “letters”, and resemble the letters which take a message or an account of what happens in another place.’