[74] A tale which is very common under various form. Such tales are meant to impress the mind of the young African girl with the danger of not taking the husband that she has been bound to. They are used in connection with the mysteries, and have built up a public opinion which is too strong for any poor girl to resist. Many young girls applied at the mission to be freed from this kind of bondage. [75] Used for anointing (ornamenting) the person. [76] This is a native proverb which applies to people that are not moved by the _prospect_ of danger. [77] Communicated by Mr. Buchanan. [78] In the rainy season, streams that one can easily leap over, become in a few hours quite impassible. [79] There being no windows it is very dark inside native huts. [80] Natives do not keep food or even flour in readiness, and the slow cooking is a great trial to a hungry man. [81] Their porridge like our bread is seldom eaten alone—but milk is not used to it. [82] The brother and sister, though sharing their food with each other, eat apart. [83] When a man goes to hoe, one of his reasons is that he may be on the spot to keep his wives from trifling! [84] The natives have two names for a rhinoceros according to the number of its horns. Similarly they have one word for a black cat and quite a different word for a red cat. If we try to derive the names of all animals, &c., from sounds produced by them or associated with them we meet a difficulty here. The natives have about twenty different names for _beads_ according as they are _black_, _blue_, &c., &c. The scarcity of adjectives makes this necessary to some extent. [85] Such stories, stupid as they seem, are valued by the guardians of children and impress the infant mind with lessons of obedience.