[72]. Names of market days.
[73]. The creditor would live at the expense of the debtor, hence the Hawk’s desire to get rid of the Frog.
[74]. The natives regard the Chameleon as a great dancer, because while standing still it has a peculiar movement, something like a native dancing.
[75]. The powder is made by grinding two pieces of the camwood together. The red paste resulting from the friction is dried, pounded and put into a cloth, and after a person has bathed, and rubbed himself (or herself) with oil the cloth is dabbed on the body, and the fine dust comes out and over the body. The camwood powder is greatly valued as a cosmetic.
[76]. The tree in the story is the nsafu (canuniensis) the fruit of which is date shape, but the tree is like a plum in shape, etc.
[77]. A very large and clever rat.
JAMES CHALMERS
His Autobiography and Letters.
By the late RICHARD LOVETT, M.A.,