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river, followed by a great crowd wondering what would happen.
Then Thakané stepped forward in front of the cattle and sang:
Bring to me Dilah, Dilah the rejected one,
Dilah, whom her father Masilo cast out !
And Dilah came from the waters holding out her hands
to Masilo and Thakané, and in her place the cattle sank
into the lake, and were driven by the old woman to the
great city filled with people, which lies at the bottom,
[Contes Populaires des Basouttos.]
