Note 59 — CONTENTS. (continued 6)

Kawelo said: “You two are perhaps the only ones up here to guard me. Is there no one else?” The woman replied: “Yes, we are alone. I never thought of watching over you, but it became necessary since I saw that you were of my blood, because the older brother of my father59 is your father. Therefore, my pity for you welled up, and I besought the king that I keep watch until you decomposed, when you were to be sent for and your bones stripped.” Kawelo spoke on: “Was there no other instruction of the king to you?” The former answered: “There was instruction indeed. This is his behest; that we should watch over you until two ten-day periods elapsed, when he would send a man hither who was to be informed by us of your state, and he was to return and report to the king, who would then come up and strip all your bones.”