ABSTRACT
The Bergdama or Bergdamara, as they are more commonly called, of South-west Africa, say that in the days when people had not yet fire it was once on a time very cold on earth. Then a man said to his wife, “To-night I will cross the river, and over there I will fetch me a firebrand from the village of the lion.” His wife warned him not to go, but go he did, waded through the flowing river, and entered the lion’s hut. The lion sat with the lioness and their children in a circle round a flickering fire, and the lion’s children were gnawing at human bones.
