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Kampstories

By C. Louis Leipoldt

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Cover: A South African landscape by Frans Oerder (1867-1944) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

Eleven tales that Leipoldt told to the younger children at South African school camps and later sent out into the world unchanged. They range from a Bushman legend of a blind hunter and the stories of old Abdoel in his Cape Malay shop to clever animals, a naughty boy, a sorry ghost and the reasons why the sea weeps and where the rainbow comes from. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

Summary written with Claude Opus 5.5.

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Table of contents

  1. 1: Die Een Wat Blind Was
  2. 2: In Die Slamaaierwinkel
  3. 3: Abdoel Se Storie
  4. 4: Die Slim Kraai
  5. 5: Die Klappertjie
  6. 6: Gogga En Gorra
  7. 7: Die Stout Seun
  8. 8: Waarom Die See Huil
  9. 9: Waar Die Reënboog Vandaan Kom
  10. 10: Die Arme Spook
  11. 11: Die Onnosele Boerseun