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emperor die, then all Bakairf will die too." was the answer, learned it from his mother. But in a different context he 



which fortunately, in the meantime, proved to be wrong. maintained that Keri lived in heaven, his house being 



Chief Felipe gave me a different account. "Keri went there where the sun rose. "Is Keri the god about whom 



with a hundred men to the Ronuro and Kuliseu. He the Portuguese told you?" "No, that is somebody else, 



sailed down the river into the ocean. This the people about whom we do not know anything. Keri is the 



at the Batovf also say." grandfather of the Bakairf [Von den Steinen, 1894, ch. 13, 



Antonio believed in the text of the myths as he had pp. 373-381]. 



