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 A few specimens, of a rather miscellaneous character, are appended:-
 1) The Ngombi to hear, the Bushman to smell, the Isisi to see, the Ochori
 to run.
 2) The Isisi sees with his eyes, the Ngombi with his ears, but the Ochori
 sees nothing but his meat.
 3) As the hunter without a spear, so is the Isisi without a ghost.
 4) The snake and the Tofolaka live in the grass, and the snake dies of shame.
 5) Only the rat comes to dinner and stays to ravage.
 6) A good wife does all things but fly.
 7) No man turns his face to the sun or his back to his wife.
 8) A lover has strong arms but no brains.
 9) Men know best, who know most, but a woman's happiness lies in her
 illusions.
 10) When a slave sits in the king's place, only slaves obey him.
 11) A king is a poor man, and a beggar is poorer.
 12) Between a slave and a warrior is the length of a spear.
 13) Spears grow no corn. Rather are they terrible eaters.
 14) If your neighbour be armed, take your arms and join him.
 15) Speak only the words which high ones speak and you can say no wrong.
 16) You cannot measure right with a string.
 17) If you cannot find your enemy, kill your dearest friend.
 18) Men who stand still do not step on thorns.
 19) To every man there is an easy kill somewhere and, if he misses this, all
 kills are difficult.
 20) That which is looked for is never boasted about.
 21) A thing is worth its price and what you give away is worth nothing.
 22) To-morrow is a different day, or, To-morrow is also a day.
 23) Sandi's word has one face.

 APPENDIX B. Some other deities.

 In addition to Mshimba-Mshamba, the following deities are worthy of
mention: -
 (a) Bimbi-He is a god of the forest and stalks restlessly from one border
of it to the other.
 "Bimbi is older than the sun and more terrible than any other ghost. For
 he feeds on the moon, and at nights you may see how the edge of the desert
 world is bitten by his great mouth, until it becomes, first, the half of a moon,
 then the merest slither, and then no moon at all. And on the very dark nights,