But Paaka said, "If I were so powerful would I be tied by a rope?"

So they took the rope and beat it.

But the rope cried: "Here! I am Kaam'ba, the rope. Why do you beat

me? What have I done?"

And they said: "Yes, we know you are Kaamba; it is you that ties Paaka,

the cat; who eats Paanya, the rat; who bores through Keeyambaaza,

the mud wall; which stopped Koosee, the south wind; and Koosee, the

south wind, threw down the calabash that struck our teacher Goso. You

should not have done it."