amusement. They generally go out to hunt in large parties, and when they
find game in the open fields, theyendeavour to surround the animals, or drive
them to some narrow pass, which is previously occupied by long files of
hunters, stationed on either side, who, as the herd rushes through between,
pierce them with showers of assagais [spears]. This mode is chiefly pursued
with the larger sorts of antelopes. The smaller bucks they sometimes knock
down with the kirri, or war club, which they throw with great force and
expertness; birds are generally killed with the same weapon. They have also
modes of catching the smaller game by gins and springs, fixed in their paths
through the woods and thickets.s>
Brownlee went on to explain how they attacked larger game: elephants,
rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses, buffalo, and lions.4 6
Metals were unevenly distributed in Southern Africa. The grasslands of
the southern highveld and also the southern part of the country below the
escarpment were deficient in iron and copper. Many areas, moreover, were
short of salt, also a desired item. Consequently, there was considerable
economic specialization. At Phalaborwa in the eastern Transvaal, for ex-
ample, people specialized in iron and copper production, and nearby in the