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girls assemble for feast ; shortage of personal names |
| text: |
Indeed at 8 o'clock I wandered through darkness and rain to the house in question where the inhabitants and some girls were sitting in the interior room around a fire. I was offered tea which was terribly strong and bitter. Over the fire a big kettle with rice beer was boiling away, a thick brownish liquid which I suspected consisted of more millet than rice. Slowly the other girls arrived, altogether there were ten. Four of them were called Men-yin, two Shui-dzing and two Men-dzing. These peoples lack of imagination when it comes to individual names is really distressing and stands in surprising contrast to the wealth of names found among the Angami. |
