with and serve the former, and third, the remainder of the latter class who
either from disinclination to servitude or an inability to obtain it, trust for
support to other means, and in pursuit of them remove from the haunts of
their more settled countrymen and establish themselves in positions best
adapted for the objects they have in view.It is this class which forms ...
the
detached pauper population of a tribe.t-
Following droughts, military defeats, or epidemics affecting the people
or their livestock, entire communities were sometimes obliged to revert to
the hunting-gathering way of life. Pastoralism, moreover, was not possible
in the Kalahari Desert and the mountain escarpment. There, communities
continued to practice their traditional hunting and gathering mode of life
throughout the colonial period-even,
in such cases as the !Kung and the
G/wi, down to the present day.
Archaeologists have found no evidence that the herding way of life
spread east of the twenty-inch rainfall zone. We may assume that herders
would have tried to expand in that direction where, with better rainfall, the
environment was more propitious. Perhaps they did so, but the evidence
has not been discovered. Alternatively, by the time their eastward expan-