Note 1 — STORY OF THE GIRL WHO DISREGARDED THE CUSTOM OF NTONJANE.

The companions of the chief’s daughter, one after the other, asked the snake for their mantles in this manner, and obtained permission to take them. Last of all was the chief’s daughter. But instead of speaking to the snake respectfully as the others had done, she said mockingly, “Ngcingcingci, ngcingcingci.”1 So the snake became very angry, and bit her, when she immediately became of the same hideous colour as it was. Her companions were so frightened that they left her and ran away home. They put another girl in the hut, and pretended that she was the chief’s daughter. The girl, thus left alone, went to a forest close by, and climbed up a tree to hide herself.