Note 1 — THE BUNNIAH’S GHOST

“In one year more they will be repaid to the uttermost cowrie;1 but you mean to destroy the tree and drive my soul I know not whither. Wherefore have I come to plead with you to spare it this once, for when a year is past it will die of itself and my soul find its way to that Land of Shadows which is the abode of the Gods—where it will find peace.”