Note note 54 — NOTES TO PART I
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54 Women I have borrowed (p. 324).--The old word on the Congo for marriage was sompa nkento, which means to borrow a woman (see notes 43 and 44), for which loan the man paid something to the girl’s uncle. All members of the Church are married by Holy Matrimony, and the word sompa (or to borrow) has given place to kazala (to take as a wife).