WITH FRONTISPIECE

LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO.

39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON

NEW YORK, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA

1910


CONTENTS

Frontispiece from a Drawing in Colour by
Major G. M. de L. Dayrell

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[Introduction][vii]
I. [The Tortoise with a Pretty Daughter][1]
II. [How a Hunter obtained Money from his Friends the Leopard, Goat, Bush Cat, and Cock, and how he got out of repaying them][6]
III. [The Woman with two Skins][11]
IV. [The King's Magic Drum][20]
V. [Ituen and the King's Wife][29]
VI. [Of the Pretty Stranger who Killed the King][33]
VII. [Why the Bat flies by Night][36]
VIII. [The Disobedient Daughter who Married a Skull][38]
IX. [The King who Married the Cock's Daughter][42]
X. [Concerning the Woman, the Ape, and the Child][46]
XI. [The Fish and The Leopard's Wife; or, Why the Fish lives in the Water][49]
XII. [Why the Bat is Ashamed to be seen in the Daytime][51]
XIII. [Why the Worms live Underneath the Ground][56]
XIV. [The Elephant and the Tortoise; or, Why the Worms are Blind and the Elephant has Small Eyes][58]
XV. [Why a Hawk kills Chickens][62]
XVI. [Why the Sun and the Moon live in the Sky][64]
XVII. [Why the Flies Bother the Cows][66]
XVIII. [Why the Cat kills Rats][68]
XIX. [The Story of the Lightning and the Thunder][70]
XX. [Why the Bush Cow and the Elephant are bad Friends][72]
XXI. [The Cock who caused a Fight between two Towns][76]
XXII. [The Affair of the Hippopotamus and the Tortoise; or, Why the Hippopotamus lives in the Water][79]
XXIII. [Why Dead People are Buried][81]
XXIV. [Of the Fat Woman who Melted Away][83]
XXV. [Concerning the Leopard, the Squirrel, and the Tortoise][86]
XXVI. [Why the Moon Waxes and Wanes][91]
XXVII. [The Story of the Leopard, the Tortoise, and the Bush Rat][93]
XXVIII. [The King and the Ju Ju Tree][98]
XXIX. [How the Tortoise overcame the Elephant and the Hippopotamus][104]
XXX. [Of the Pretty Girl and the Seven Jealous Women][107]
XXXI. [How the Cannibals drove the People from Insofan Mountain to the Cross River (Ikom)][115]
XXXII. [The Lucky Fisherman][119]
XXXIII. [The Orphan Boy and the Magic Stone][121]
XXXIV. [The Slave Girl who tried to Kill her Mistress][126]
XXXV. [The King and the 'Nsiat Bird][133]
XXXVI. [Concerning the Fate of Essido and his Evil Companions][135]
XXXVII. [Concerning the Hawk and the Owl][142]
XXXVIII. [The Story of the Drummer and the Alligators][145]
XXXIX. [The 'Nsasak Bird and the Odudu Bird][153]
XL. [The Election of the King Bird (the black-and-white Fishing Eagle)][156]