Men Spoke To Them From The Hole,
But They Could Not See Them.
Raychow said to his son, 'Go down into
the Hole' - and his son went.
The son of the King of the Hole came
to him and defied him to a contest of throwing the spear. If he
lost he should be killed, if he won he should go back in safety. He
won - then the son of the King of the Hole said, 'It is strange you
should have won, for I am a spirit. Ask whatever you wish,' and the
King's son asked for a remedy for every disease he could remember;
and the spirit gave him the medicines, and when he had done so, he
said, 'There is one sickness you have forgotten - it is the Krawkraw,
and of that you shall die.'
"A tribe named Ndiva was then strong but now none remain (Winwood
Reade says four remain). They gave Raychow's son a canoe and forty
men, to take him back to his father's town, and when he saw his
father he did not speak. His father said, 'My son, if you are
hungry eat.' He did not answer, and his father said, 'Do you wish
me to kill a goat?' He did not answer; his father said, 'Do you
wish me to give you new wives?' He did not answer. Then his father
said, 'Do you want me to build you a fetish hut?' Then he answered,
'Yes,' and the hut was built, and the medicines he had brought back
from the Hole were put into it.
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