therein. He told them, ‘When you go down to the world to-morrow, get up early in the morning, and slip away before your brother Lumbe (that is, Death) knows you are going, for if he knows he will go with you, and will kill your children.’
They set off in the morning, but, having travelled part of the distance, the wife said to her husband, ‘I have brought this fowl with me, but I have left the Indian corn for its food hanging up in the porch of the house. I am going back to fetch it.’ Kintu, the husband, remonstrated with her, but in vain. She went back, and just as she came out of the house, after taking down the bundle of corn hanging in the porch, she encountered Death (Lumbe), who asked her where she was going. On hearing that her destination was the world, Lumbe said, ‘Well, I will accompany you.’ He came into the world with the first couple, and as children were born to them, Lumbe put an
