"Oh listen, master, unto me:
I carved my wife from yonder tree."
Then the woman took off her ornaments and threw them down to him,
saying--
"The ornaments are thine,
The golden fetters fine;
Take them, oh, take them,
Makami, and go."
She cried then very much, and took off all her things, till there was
left a single charm round her neck.
The Sultan said, "Take off all his ornaments quickly and throw them to
him, that he may go." But Mwanamizi did not want to take off that charm,
for it was her soul. Then the poor man sang again, and Mwanamizi
unfastened the charm from her neck and threw it to him, and at that
moment she turned into a tree there in the house of the Sultan.
[Illustration: "AT THAT MOMENT SHE TURNED INTO A TREE"]
The poor man sighed and went back to his house, but the Sultan in his
palace was seized with great fear.
The telling of the story ends here.