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But the arguments on the other side were too strong, her own physical condition too weak; she grasped the expected relief regardless of the warnings of her conscience. Among the objects connected with evil magic, a certain kind of maize had the power of speech attributed to it. It is the dark-coloured variety, called in the Queres language ka monyi tza.
Above the mastodon head there is a chain, nearly 10 inches deep; the stones forming the links are sculptured and fitted into each other just like the rattles of a rattlesnake; and yet higher another row of stones resembling knots. On the sides of the mastodon's trunk are these signs which read Tza, and means that which is necessary.
The sun had sunk behind the hills, and the shadows of twilight were gathering in the valley. It was a beautiful and calm evening, the solemn stillness of which, was only broken by the 'tza! tza! of thousands of katydids among the bushes.
Finally he inquired, "Where is Hoshkanyi?" "Not here," came a reply from several voices. "And the yaya?" "Tza yaya," was the negative answer. "Then we are not too late," said the war-chief, turning to Tyame. He sat down among the rest, and the talk went on as before his arrival. At last the governor came. He offered a short greeting and received a careless reply.
The Arabs usually command the movement of the camels by "Tzâ;" and when they are to stop, by "Ush;" and, to kneel down, it is a prolonged pronunciation of the guttural خ or Kh-h-h. We may well suppose, however, that the camels which travel this route are expert linguists in the Touarghee and Arabic. We continued all day till the last dull departing solar ray of the west had left us.
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