Old Hendrik’s Tales

Notes: Contains 13 South African folktales.
Author: Captain Arthur Owen Vaughan
Published: 1904
Publisher: Longmans, Green and Co., London, New York & Bombay

PREFACE

“Old Hendrik’s Tales,” bv Capt. Vauglun (Longman—G. Robertson). A clever mixture of Hans Andersen and Kipling’s jungle books. The atmosphere is not India or Scandinavia, but South Africa. The author is evidently saturated
in it. His characters talk quaintly as Boers or Hottentots. We seem here to tret at the old folk lore of the Veldt. The baboons, jackals, wolves, hares, tortoises, birds and iittle silver fishes are introduced in a fashion which is quite actual. This must be a unique
took.