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' Cannot drink as it is hot, 

 and cannot throw away as it is 

 KanjiJ 



An unpleasant dilemma. 



The idle man has divine eyes 

 (gift of prophecy.) 



He forebodes, and magnifies 

 difficulties in the execution of 

 any work, which are not patent 

 to others. 



' Like going to consult the 

 thief's mother (as an oracle.) 



When a theft is committed, 

 it is usual to consult a Kapu- 

 rdla, (demon's priest), or Patti- 

 nihdmi (priestess), as to who 

 committed the theft, and they 

 pretend to know the thief by 

 the inspiration of their favorite 

 demon. The opinion of an 

 interested party. 



* Like an ox goring a man that 

 has fallen from a tree.' 



Calamity upon calamity. 



4 The tree which you could 

 have nipped off with your nail, 

 you could not (afterwards) cut 

 with your axe.' 



Evils which one could have 

 easily checked in the begin- 

 ning, become insurmountable if 

 allowed to exist long. 



'You can judge of the Siuno* 

 by his hat.' 



' Like changing the pillow 

 when suffering from head-ache.' 



An ineffectual remedy. 



A term applied to a European descendant, corrupted from Portu- 

 guese Senhor. 



