英语听力：自然百科 徒步南非之花园大道 The Garden Route—11（在线收听） |
The dunes are so big, up to 120 meters in fact, that they are permanent structures. The wind can do little to alter their size and shape. And like the cave yesterday, they contain some secrets. Long after the Homo sapiens first introduced shellfish into their diet, this plentiful coast became the preserve of Southern Africa's true indigenous populartion, known as the San. For at least 10,000 years, they enjoyed an uninterrupted existence here, free from other tribes and races, and they left behind piles and piles of evidence of their day-to-day activities. -So it's a can of shells, really? A little mountain of shells. Loads of thousands of thousands.
-There is a madam*.
-A madam.
-Yes, where the Sans collected their shells on the sea and came here.
-The San people?
-The San people, yes. They collected these and here they prepared to make a San food. It's like a kitchen today.
-You see, I've been here a couple of times before into these dunes, and I thought the sea had brought these shells here over and over years, but it was the San people.
-Yes. That is the San people.
Today, Willie can thank the San for the wonderful click sounds of his language, a feature that crosses several other South African languages acquire from their San predecessors.
-And what about all the little stones around here?
-Yeah. They were the tools they used...
-These were tools?
-Yes.
-And they're just lying here in the dunes thousands of thousand years old?
-Yes.
-OK.
How many people, I wonder, must pass by beach-side midden without even a glance? Willie has helped bring this coast to live to me, and simply there's no way that without him beyond the lookout for a certain type of footprint.
-Here is the paw of the leopard.
-A leopard? This is, really? You're joking.
-No, i'm not joking.
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