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F. A. de Roepstorff — Tiomheromhi. 
[No. 1, 
Jncht^r^nde poniiamslie lakoila, 
hatiohange en slieian larille, pomi- 
amstie larille. Hat docli dok de 
matai, ('^)kawalliange en skeiau 61 
kamelse. Hatao-ee-Eeliende, tendok- 
tere, leat gniing gnide, gnnng tioa, 
0183 en tiong. 
Lung, lung, lung en sheiauende 
gnaklalende. Keithala en slieiau 
en Tiomberombi, leat gnot en inoat 
en kande iobl tenwa. 
Leat or 80 kande 61 matai kom6iung. 
(^) Omshongbande Tiomberombi. 
“ Tim pain” P “ tiue Tiom¬ 
berombi (^) kenmold. “ Hat me de 
Then it happened that the bow 
sank down : the bag was (there¬ 
fore) shifted aft. Then the stern 
of the vessel sank down. They 
could not reach land (so) they 
threw the bag into the sea. They 
sailed and sailed and arrived at 
their destination, there was no 
house, no property, that the ship 
had brought away. 
* The bag drifted and drifted on 
to hard ground. Tiomberombi cut 
open the bag, his wife had put the 
knife round his neck with the key. 
t The woman was landed in the 
enemy’s country. Tiomberombi 
travelled about. “ Who are you ?” 
(asks someone). “I am Tiombe- 
the vessel sinks at the stern. The reason for these extraordinary 
phenomena is not explained, but it will be seen later that he carried 
about his person the key of the magic mirror in a string together with a 
knife. The ship’s company fear for the safety of their craft and tracing 
their danger to something uncanny about the bag dropped it overboard. 
7 Kawalhange implies that the stern was level with the water. To 
throw a thing from a higher to a lower level is kawalhashe. The text 
indicates thus that the ship was in danger and that the crew were in 
consequence alarmed. 
^ The bag containing the hapless Tiomberombi drifted at length to 
land. His wife had hung the key of the magic mirror and a knife about 
his neck. 
t With the latter he releases himself from the confinement of the 
bag and wanders about from place to place, till apparently he arrives 
at his enemy’s country where his wife has already been conveyed and is 
living as a member of the household of the chief. ^ Omshonghande with 
the enunciation of the second syllable prolonged to indicate that he wan¬ 
dered about a great deal. During his travels some one, suspecting’ his 
appearance probably, accosts him. When the wayfarer says he is Tiom¬ 
berombi the younger, the suspicions of the interrogator were only deepen¬ 
ed. ^ kenmolo = called by another man’s name. Tiomberombi, how¬ 
ever, assures him, that he is not the national foe, but another Tiombe¬ 
rombi, a man of lowly degree whose occupation is cooking and not 
