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that horn would come to me that I might drink out of it." And the horn said, " Did it walk thus ?" Koloimoko exclaimed, " Oh ! oh ! " Libanza followed, crying, '■ Koloimoko, stumble, stumble, catch me, Koloimoko."

Koloimoko had a friend called Bianga-biangango. While he was gone to fetch him, Libanza covered himself with a saucepan. When they returned they sat at a distance, and Koloimoko said, " As I was at first that saucepan would come here." The sauce- pan said, " I am coming." They ran away swiftly, exclaiming, " Oh, oh ! " I>ibanza followed, crying, " Koloimoko, stumble, stumble, catch me, Koloimoko." His friend called to the Bianga- bianganga. Libanza shouted, " Bianga-bianganga, catch me, kill me." By-and-by Libanza came upon a shed used for making canoes. He turned himself into the handle of an axe. When the men came to work on the canoes, as Koloimoko was about to pick up an axe, Libanza caught him and took him to his sister. Koloimoko had only one leg with stumpy toes. Libanza's sister said, " The man is very ugly \ how can I go with him ? " So Libanza let him go.

As they continued their journey, they saw a bunch uf ripe palm-nuts. The sister picked up some fallen ones, and eating them found them good, whereupon she said, " Libanza, cut that bunch of palm-nuts for me." He ascended the palm-tree, and as he ascended, the palm-tree grew up, and up, and up, until the top reached the heaven. Libanza alighted in heaven, and his sister Nsongo was left on the earth.

Nsongo on being left behind cried for her brother Libanza. She heard the roll of thunder and said, " Ah ! that is Libanza." She called a wizard named Muntwontwa. He came and said, " Your brother is in heaven. Did you hear the thunder roll ? That was the roar of your brother Libanza." Nsongo said, " I want to go there." Muntwontwa said, " You call the hawk, he goes up there, and tell him you want to send a parcel to Libanza, then tie yourself up into a parcel and place yourself on the ridge of a house ; the hawk will see it and say, ' There is the parcel truly,' then he will take you up immediately."

When Nsongo saw the hawk, she said, " Hawk, if you are going up there, swoop down, I want to send a parcel." AA'hen the hawk had passed, Nsongo took some leaves, tied herself up, and put herself on the top of the house ridge. When the hawk returned