Note 50 — CONTENTS. (continued 6)

Persistently he climbed up; they were pelting stones at him. He was struck, but he still pressed upward. When he was covered over with stones he shook and they all fell [off]. Still he ascended. Reaching the summit, there were only two piles of stones left, when he was held down by the many stones on top of him, and he lay back quite dead.50 Kawelo was then picked up, conveyed to and placed on a structure51 already prepared. Then the king asked for one to act as guard until the bones were loosened, whence they would be stripped.52 At this moment the half-sister of Kawelo heard [it] and said to the king: “It is well that I be caretaker,” to which the king assented, and they all returned feeling assured there was no mischiefmaker left to cause trouble again, that the tyrant had been killed, and the comparative ease of living had come and slumber was undisturbed during the night.