The Snails tuned their song:
“Iyâ! Dingâlâ! disabĕte!
Iyâ! Dingâlâ! sâlâlâsâlâ! Disabĕte!
Iyâ! Dingâlâ! Iyâ! Dingâlâ!
Iyâ! Dingâlâ! Sâlâlâsâlâ!
Iyâ! Dingâlâ! Eh! Bamo-eh!”
The Snails, in their fierce charge, killed him, and were about to take away the corpse; when, his Ngalo returning him to life, he sprang erect, and cried out, “Ah! my Father Njambu! Dibadi-O!”
And he took up his war-song:—
“Tata Njambu ya milole, milole mi we.
Ta’ Njambu! milole mi we.