Bushmen Stories: Mountains

Mountains or “Kou” the oldest daughter, lived happily with her husband (the son of Kaggen) and her young daughter in this land of plenty. She never took the necklace off and she was blessed with an abundance of her favourite food which was tortoise meat. There were lots of tortoises in the veld around her hut and she could eat as much tortoise as she wanted to. She became so fond of the tortoise meat that eventually that was all that she did the whole day – to eat tortoise meat. She became very big but like a tortoise also started moving slower. It would take her all day just to catch a tortoise in the veld right outside her hut.