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In 1873, Qing, a young man of San background, was hired by the magistrate Joseph Orpen to guide a colonial force through the Maloti Mountains. In response to Orpen’s questions, Qing commented on rock art and recounted stories. Orpen published Qing’s comments and stories in 1874 in The Cape Monthly Magazine. James Murray Grant, the leader of the expedition, kept a journal of the journey. Both Orpen’s article and Grant’s journal contain multiple references to animals. This article analyses the way in which animals are represented by Qing in his stories and explanations of rock art and compares these representations to Orpen and Grant’s references to animals in the two texts.
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Wessels, M. (2017). Qing and the Animals of the Drakensberg-Maloti. In: Woodward, W., McHugh, S. (eds) Indigenous Creatures, Native Knowledges, and the Arts. Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56874-4_2
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