But the bird said: “No, I do not want millet.”
The woman then offered an isidanga (an ornamental breast-band which women wear), but the bird said it had no use for that. Then she got some very fine gravel and placed before the bird, which it received at her hands.
After this the woman had a daughter. Her [[57]]husband knew nothing of what had happened, because he never went to her house. He did not love her at all, for the reason that she bore no children. So she said:
“I will keep my daughter in the house till my husband comes; he will surely love me when he sees I have such a beautiful child.”
The name given to the girl was Tangalimlibo.
The man went always to the house of the other wife, and so it happened that Tangalimlibo was grown to be a young woman when her father first saw her. He was very much pleased, and said:
“My dear wife, you should have told me of this before.”
The girl had never been out of the house in the daytime. Only in the night-time she had gone out, when people could not see her.
The man said to his wife:
“You must make much beer, and invite many people to come and rejoice with me over this that has happened.”