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family circle knew anything of them. A tradition was 
handed down for ages, through the family, from father 
to son, that on the day they showed the well to strangers, 
they would be ruined and destroyed. 
“ It happened, however, that the wife, unknown to 
her husband, loved another man in the town, and 
MANYEMA VILLAGE. 
by-and-by, her passion increasing, she conveyed to him 
by stealth some of the delicious fish from the wonderful 
well. The meat was so good, and had such a novel 
flavour, that the lover urged her to inform him whence 
and by what means she obtained it ; but the fear of 
dreadful consequences, should she betray the secret of 
