Two British airmen, training in Rhodesia, failed to return from a cross-country flight over the trackless wastes of Bechuanaland. Last week, in the thatched courthouse at Francistown, three ocher-skinned Bushmen named Twaitwai, Tammai and Kiree told what happened to the flyers.
On Oct. 5, the day after the airmen vanished, the Bushmen were giraffe-hunting in the closed season (September to February). After they had killed a giraffe, they met two white men, camped with them, gave them some of the giraffe meat. When the strangers slept, the Bushmen held an indaba (discussion)....
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