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*    believed to live in the dense

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*    bush; it looks like a man, but is

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*    covered with hair all over the

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*    body, including the face, so that

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*    its eyes are almost invisible. lt

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*    carries a mat woven like the

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*    house of the worm (?) akũerhã-

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*    kũiri [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ˩ ˩ ], and always utters

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*    sounds like i i, i i [ ˥ ˦ ˥ ˦ ]. It is

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*    believed to be harmless when

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*    not troubled, but “if it passes

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*    through a man’s legs, he must

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*    die”. It cannot be killed with a

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*    knife, etc. because, if cut, “it

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*    becomes double and fourfold”,

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*    and it is never hit by a bullet,

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*    but if sand is thrown at it, it

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*    “must pick up every grain of it

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*    before it can leave the spot”.

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*    From the skull, a “medicine” is

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*    prepared enabling the user to

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*    know what happens at a dis-

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*    tance. Its mat which, however,

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*    nobody can obtain, brings “pros-

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*    perity in life”.

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*Eseɽe [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ] a chief; senior of the

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*    Iw-ɛguae [ ˩ \ ˩ ]-society; the title

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*    is not hereditary.

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*esɛɣɛsɛɣɛ [ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˥ ˥ ] the gum-tree,

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*    Tetrapleura tetraptera.

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*esi 1 [ ˩ ˩ ] bush-pig; esi‿ebo [ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˦ ]

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*    “European pig”: house-pig; re-

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*    cently introduced, same as ɛlɛdɛ

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*    [ ˥ \ ˩ ]. esi oha [ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˦ ] a brown rat

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*    found in dirty places; used as a

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*    sacrificial animal by the priests

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*    of Ɔɽ̃ɔ̃mila [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ˩ ]; same as ekwɛmɔ

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*    [ ˥ ˥ ˥ ]. esi oha [ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˦ ] may nowa-

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*    days possibly be used to dis-

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*    tinguish the bush-pig from the

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*    house-pig; cf. Yor. esi [ ˧ ˩ ]; v.

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*    azãna [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ], oluku [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ].

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*esi 2 [ ˩ ˩ ] good (perhaps “good-

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*    ness”); ɔʋ̃a‿esi [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ˩ ] a good

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*    man; n-ɔʋ̃a‿esi [ ˥ ˦ ˩ ˩ ] the good

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*    man; eʋ̃i‿esi [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ˩ ] a good thing.

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