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Vocabulary of the Ho language. 



[No. 107. 



He lay down in the jungle and 



could not rise again. 

 Night was coming on, and I 



heard the tiger roaring. 

 And I thought he would seize 



you, my poor boy, if I left 



you. 

 And so I killed you ! 

 I then buried him in a ravine, 

 Lest the wild beasts devour him. 

 I went away slowly, for I was 



weak and ill. 

 And when I had got further into 



the forest, I thought I heard 



him call. 

 And then I fainted away. 

 But he calls me now every day. 



In the morning, and noon, and 

 night I hear him call. Father, 

 oh father ! 



En beer re geetee enai, ondo k'ai 



tingoo rooy dya. 

 Needa hendiente, koola o ratanna 



aioomadaing. 

 Enkoola do jeedakanre habmiai 



tora, eeng bagee endredo, mente 



adakiddaing, koa ! 

 Entenado. Goikedmiaing ! 

 Ente do hooang re eeng topotadya. 

 Beer jeeloo do kako jomai, mente, 

 Maite eeng seniena, jan pe o ban- 



noa, essoo eeng hassooiena. 

 Ondo nado en beer re bolokedte, 



iewaing tannai, adakidaing. 



Ent6 nado eeng goyenaing. 

 Mendo nado dimsee ai kewaing 



tana. 

 Setta re, singee re, needa re kewaw- 



ing tanna'i, Appooing, appooing, 



hey appooing ! 



So I cannot eat, I cannot work, I Ente k'aing jomdya, k'aing pytee 



dya, k'aing landa dya, jeed do 

 k'aing jeed dya, na do ! 



Mar, fansee emaing men, mar, 

 buddee te goikeeing men, gomke 

 ente chabiena nee ge !* 



Essoo marang hende needa tykidda, 

 Seeram chooare iew kanjooienai. 



All^ essoo'le iewkeea, k'ai" gonga. 



cannot laugh, I can live no 

 more ! 

 So hang me. Sir ; kill me quick, 

 and this wretchedness is over !* 



It was a very dark night, and 

 Seram tumbled into the well. 



We called him, but he gave no 

 answer. 



When they brought a light, we 

 found he was dead. 



Ente sengel owliddako, maskal ki- 

 dalle, ente'le nelkeea, goia kan- 

 nai. 



* The above is taken almost verbatim from the confession of a Ho prisoner, who 

 delivered himself up after the murder of his son in the woods of Ooisooia in Kotegurh- 

 peer, 1837-38. 



