makete

Updated: May 16, 2025

Badgering then commenced: I must add two wires, and six makete or necklaces of mzizima beads, the latter being due to the chief for negotiating the tax. When this addition was paid, we should be freed by beat of drum. I complied at once, by way of offering a special mark of respect And friendship, and on the reliance that he would keep his word.

John Hanning Speke - The Discovery of the Source of the Nile

Boys, accordingly, try to secure a female, and when one is captured they tie it with a thread to some branch, and sing a curious little song, of which these are the original words: Konna dansho Korai o Adzuma no meto ni makete Nigeru Wa haji dewa naikai?

Lafcadio Hearn - Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan : Second Series