Pls.: “Eh!”
Opp.: “Ba nyango ya bilulu” (They are bitter leaves).
Pls.: “Eh!”
Opp.: “Obe na nkulu, abete mungita” (He who has the article make the sound of thunder).
Pls.: “Kililī!” (imitation of rolling thunder).
Opp.: “Bakunguika” (Make it again).
Pls.: “Kililī!”
Opp.: “Motu yona” (That person).
If the person thus pointed out is the hider of the article, he shows it, and his side loses, and the opposition side takes its turn; if, however, he has not the article, then the one who has it says, “Eh! nabuti mwana” (Oh! I have given birth to a child), and shows the article. It then counts one game to them, and is called mwana wawi = one child.
8. Liba. A game with palm nuts (and this very often precedes peke, or backgammon). In liba they throw up a palm nut, and then before it falls they swoop up with the right hand as many palm nuts as they can, and put them down to catch the descending nut before it touches the ground. The one who picks up most in an agreed number of throws wins the game.