Then they said, "Let us go home, now that the child is gone amissing, and since some people have taken our game. We have not seen the child, nor the person who took him."
So they started off, and went home.
As they were nearing their village, they cried loudly, making a song, saying:
"We will report Tangalemilingo;
They have taken him.
He has been taken by the water-people.
Cock, thou art a fowl, a fowl merely,
We will be killed.
We will report Tangalemilingo, Tangalemilingo,
They have taken him.
He has been taken by the water-people.
Cock, thou art a fowl, a fowl merely."
So they arrived home.
But there was Tangalemilingo. When he saw that he was in the eland's stomach, he drew out his knife, and cut the eland's stomach in two.
So he escaped, the eland not killing him. So now no man kills the eland, as at one time it was Tangalemilingo.
Then Tangalemilingo also made a song, saying:
"Believe ye, believe ye,
He who disappeared, drinks the children's milk.
He walks on the paths,
He stands at the gate."
So he arrived at his home, and the women were very glad, and rejoiced. They sang songs, and killed cattle to praise [the spirit] who had brought out the child.
