Then the man said, "I don't want anything."

Having gone to the Akaragane jungle, and having come on the following

day taking the jingling bangle and box of tom-tom beater's decorations,

he showed them to the King, and said he seized the Yaka.

Afterwards the King, having given the man the articles which the man

took [to him], gave the man a district from the kingdom, and goods

[amounting] to a tusk elephant's load, and the Akaragane jungle.

The man having taken them, and come to the rock house, that woman

and five children were [there]. The five children having gone to

the man's village, in the man's village were his first wife and five

children of the woman's. The children having sold the house at that

village, and the two women and the ten children having come again to

the Akaragane jungle, building a house in that jungle all remained

in that very place.

Tom-tom Beater. North-western Province.

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