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He described Malegga as a very powerful country, and of greater extent than either Unyora or Uganda. . . . South of Malegga was a country named Tori, governed by a king of the same name: beyond that country to the south on the western shore no intelligence could be obtained from any one.
Thus was killed Tori, and Tati-Tori, and Petoo, and others. We cannot fight, for we have no guns only two or three old guns. "They ill-treat our women. Thus was killed Motuaro, who made defence of Naumoo, whom they have now taken on board their schooner. It was because of this that Pilsach was killed.
Tori is dead, and Tati-Tori, and Petoo, and Nari, and Pilsach, and others." "Pilsach, too!" Grief exclaimed. "Has there been a sickness?" "There has been much killing. Listen, Big Brother, Three weeks ago a strange schooner came. From the Big Rock I saw her topsails above the sea. She towed in with her boats, but they did not warp by the big patch, and she pounded many times.
The raking cornice is like the horizontal cornice except that it has no dentels. In the Ionic buildings of Attica the base of the column consists of two tori separated by a trochilus. The proportions of these parts vary considerably. In the Roman form of this base, too often imitated nowadays, the trochilus has too small a diameter.
But the Kojiki, describing the same ceremony, speaks of "making merry" with the object of recalling the dead to life, as the Sun goddess had been enticed from her cave. On that occasion Tori, omi of the Abe-uji, offered to the spirit of the dead "sacred utensils and sacred garments, fifteen thousand kinds in all."
Among its treasures is an image of copper and gold which was cast by the Korean artist, Tori commonly called Tori Busshi, or Tori the image-maker to order of Shotoku; and there is mural decoration from the brush of a Korean priest, Doncho.
Moreover, the history of Susano-o the Impetuous Male Deity, does not indicate that destiny had anything to do with his particular case: he fell in love with the Wondrous Inada Princess at first sight as it is written in the Kojiki: 'Then Take-haya-susa-no-wo-no-mikoto descended to a place called Tori- kami at the headwaters of the River Hi in the land of Idzumo.
Abissinie, Sennaar, Homran, Galabat, Kordofan. Tr. sylvaticus, Spaerm. Bahr el Abiad. Tr. Dekula, Rupp. Amhar. Dekoula. Arab. Houch. Djenke, Ber. Taka, Abissinie, Bahr el Abiad. B. Mauritanica, Sund. Arab. Tetel; Tigreh, Tori. Taka, Homran, Barka, Galabat, Kordofan, Bahr el Abiad. B. Caama, Cuv. Arab. Tetel. Djenke, Awalwon. Bahr el Abiad, Kordofan meridionale. B. Senegalensis, H. Smith.
Notwithstanding, in case of such a manifest ignorance or cowardice as exceeds all ordinary example, 'tis but reason to take it for a sufficient proof of treachery and malice, and for such to be punished. "Basti al nocchiero ragionar de' venti, Al bifolco dei tori; et le sue piaghe Conti'l guerrier; conti'l pastor gli armenti."
The metal employed was of gold and copper; in the proportion of one part of the former to 430 of the latter. It is related that when these images were completed, the temple door proved too low to admit them, and the artisan Tori the Saddle-maker whose ingenuity overcame the difficulty without pulling down the door, received large honour and reward.
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