A few words in this e-text use the uncommon letters “Ĕ”, “ĭ”, “ŏ”(vowel with breve or “short” mark); they have been given popup transliterations. If theapostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, youmay need to change your browser’s “file encoding” or “character set”, orchange your default font.

Some words in the text have variant spellings that were left unchanged.The main ones are:

nyumu: sometimes hyphenated as nyu-mu

Mashongnavi, Shupaulovi, Sichumovi (names):sometimes written with accents as Mashóngnavi,Shupaúlovi, Sichúmovi

Brackets and parenthetical question marks are as in the original.A few typographical errors have been corrected. They are marked in thetext with mouse-hoverpopups.