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In support of this contention, he points to the fact that, unlike most Philippine tribes, they use the Malayan name. The terms used are, bait koda stallion, and mamat koda mare. Such a receptacle is supported on the back by means of a band which passes around the forehead, or by other bands which slip over the shoulders.
The calmness of the strange being had stayed their hands. They had never before seen a man of other race than their own! "Is this Chanotedah? Is he man, or beast?" the warriors asked one another. "Ho, wake up, koda!" exclaimed Anookasan. "Maybe he is of the porcupine tribe, ashamed to look at us!"
Always of a bright, jolly and amiable disposition, his silence and moody spell grieved his friend very much, and he finally spoke to Chaske, saying: "Koda, what has come over you? You who were always so jolly and full of fun? Your silence makes me grieve for you and I do not know what you are feeling so downhearted about. Has the girl said anything to you to make you feel thus?"
The summer sun hung bright in the middle of a cloudless sky. There across the green prairie was a man walking bareheaded toward the east. "Ha! ha! 'tis he! the man with the magic arrow!" laughed Iktomi. And when the bird with the yellow breast sang loud again "Koda Ni Dakota! Friend, you're a Dakota!"
The blue, blue sky dropped low over the edge of the green level land. A large yellow sun hung directly overhead. The singing of birds filled the summer space between earth and sky with sweet music. Again and again sang a yellow-breasted birdie "Koda Ni Dakota!" He insisted upon it. "Koda Ni Dakota!" which was "Friend, you're a Dakota! Friend, you're a Dakota!"
At this moment they spied the haunch of venison which swung from a cross-stick over a fine bed of coals, in front of the rude mud chimney. "Ho, koda has something to eat! Sit down, sit down!" they shouted to one another. Now Antoine opened his eyes for the first time upon his unlooked-for guests. They were a haggard and hungry-looking set.
The Gonds in India worship a horse-god, Koda Pen, in the form of a shapeless stone; but it is not clear that the horse is regarded as divine. The horse or mare is a common form of the corn-spirit in Europe. Leopard. The cult of the leopard is widely found in West Africa.
You may come again to-morrow." II. The Stone Boy "Ho, mita koda!" "I hope you did not dream of a watery combat with the Ojibways, after the history I repeated to you yesterday," the old sage continued, with a complaisant smile playing upon his face. "No," I said, meekly, "but, on the other hand, I have wished that the sun might travel a little faster, so that I could come for another story."
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