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Anyone else would die of thirstin a few days. In this arid desert...
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... that looks like a paradise,there's no surface water.
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But the slender, gracefulBushmen of the Kalahari...
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... live here contentedly and in completeharmony with their environment.
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They have lived undisturbed for20,000 years because they are...
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... the only people in the world who knowhow to live without surface water.
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When ivory poachers in high-techvehicles intrude into this thirst-land...
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... to hunt elephant, they have to dragreservoirs of water with them.
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And when the water runs low they haveto hightail it out of the Kalahari again.
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So the Bushmen work and playin peaceful isolation unaware...
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... of the crowded, hecticworld outside their domain...
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... and even of the wars that are foughton the very fringes of the Kalahari.
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Sometimes Xixo tells about the timehe looked for the end of the Earth...
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... and about the strange,heavy people he met...
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... but it's difficult to describethose who live outside the Kalahari.
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He always ends by saying the heavypeople know some magic...
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... that can make things moveand even fly, but they're not bright...
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... because they can't survive withouttheir magic contrivances.
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In the mornings, they liketo read the news.
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They can read thatthe hyena has a new girlfriend...
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