Africana; or, the heart of heathen Africa, Volume 2 (of 2) : $b Mission lifeMacdonald, Duff
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Africana; or, the heart of heathen Africa, Volume 2 (of 2) : $b Mission life
Macdonald, Duff
Africa, East -- Social life and customs; Missions -- Africa, East
Next day the woman took Namzimu and went with him to the garden,[33]
and hid him in the grass and said, “Stay you here, this night I send
Kalikalanje to come and burn grass, and you will see (a lad) whose
head is shaved on one side[34] and who wears a black loin cloth. That
is Kalikalanje.” That night the woman shaved Kalikalanje on one side
of the head, and put on him black cloth and sent him to the garden and
said, “Go, burn the grass in the garden”.[35] So Kalikalanje took his
shaving knife and black cloth, and his dogs, and his spear, and called
his companions and said, “Come, to the garden of my mother, to play”.
When they came to the parting of the roads, Kalikalanje told his friends
saying, “Come, let me shave your hair on one side, that we may play
properly”. When he had shaved his companions’ heads, he put on them
pieces of black cloth, and said, “You all—your names are Kalikalanje, and
we shall go to the garden, when we burn grass, everyone is Kalikalanje,
Kalikalanje”. His comrades assented saying, “Very Good!”
They came to the garden and burned the grass, and all of them said,
“Kalikalanje, Kalikalanje, Kalikalanje”. When they came to the large
grass Kalikalanje said, “Let us all come, and burn this grass with fire,
round and round, and let us hold our bows in our hands”.
Quickly Namzimu came out of the grass and Kalikalanje told his comrades
saying, “Come, let us kill him”. So they killed Namzimu with their bows.
Then Kalikalanje returned to the village and met with his mother, and
spoke to her, saying, “Mother, you wanted a wild beast to eat me, now I
kill you”. So Kalikalanje killed his mother.
39. THE MAN AND THE LION.
There was a man that had four dogs for catching meat, and one day the man
was very hungry and he said to his wife, “I go to the bush to kill meat”.
His wife said, “Yes, go and kill meat, my husband”.
The man took his dogs and his spear and went to the bush. As he hunted he
killed five buck.
Suddenly there came a lion and spoke with the man and said,
“Take these buck, give your dogs to eat. When they have eaten you must
eat your dogs, then let me eat you.” The man said “No. I do not want to
give my meat to the dogs”. Whereupon there arose a great quarrel between
the man and the lion. Suddenly there came a rabbit (fox) with his bag,
and found them quarrelling. The rabbit asked them saying, “What are you
quarrelling over?” The man explained to the rabbit the reason of the
quarrelling saying, “We quarrel about meat that I have caught with my
dogs”.
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