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Further details of the apotia cows dispute |
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To Therugunyu (Themoketsa upper) via Phesinyu ("Silizuma"). Therugunyu is a mean, miserable and filthy village. The persons of its inhabitants are even more so, but they mean well. The distance was about 15 miles, though it would have been much less had not some of the old paths been abandoned. A Themokedima G.B. complained of the two Angamis mentioned above who had brought "apotia" cattle and sold them in his village. He said the Christians were going to eat one - which they had bought, for their Christmas gathering, and ought they to be allowed to do so? I said that anyway the village was not tainted and it made no odds whether the cow was killed or not as far as that went, and that "apotia" food was very proper Christian fare and they had a right to be fed on it, to which he heartily agreed. As for the other, the man who bought it came with a howl, that he had been sold a pup. I said I would deal with the sellers, and that he had better pass his purchase on to some Christian. |
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The village said they wished to get rid of their foreign grazier, and I said he should go. |
