From the Five Rivers

by Flora Annie Webster Steel

FOOTNOTES

[Footnote 1]: Head-man.

[Footnote 2]: Government.

[Footnote 3]: Female children are not worth the expense of burning.

[Footnote 4]: A woman dying with her unborn child has infinite power for ill.

[Footnote 5]: Pension.

[Footnote 6]: Pilgrim to Mecca.

[Footnote 7]: Big crane.

[Footnote 8]: Jânwar, animal.

[Footnote 9]: "Hold your tongue!"

[Footnote 10]: Nodulated limestone.

[Footnote 11]: Ipomea seeds.

[Footnote 12]: Hung and decorated in silver and white.

[Footnote 13]: Head-man of a circle of villages.

[Footnote 14]: Bad character.

[Footnote 15]: This is often an occasion for mutual chaff between the bands of boys and girls, which, as a rule, takes a riddling form. Blossom and fruit grow side by side.