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To travel by air

Then I told my wife to jump on my back with our loads, at the same time, I commanded my juju which was given me by ‘Water Spirit woman’ in the ‘Bush of the Ghosts’ (the full story of the ‘Spirit woman’ appeared in the story book of the Wild Hunter in the Bush of the Ghosts). So I became a big bird like an aeroplane and flew away with my wife, I flew for 5 hours before I came down, after I had left the dangerous area, although it was 4 o’clock before I came down, then we began to trek the remaining journey by land or foot. By 8 o’clock p.m. of that day, then we reached the town in which the father of my wife told me that my palm-wine tapster was.

When reaching there, I asked from that town’s people about my tapster who had died long ago in my town. But they told me that my tapster had left there over two years. Then I begged them if they could to tell me the town that he was at at present, and I was told that he was now at ‘Deads’ town’ and they told me that he was living with deads at the ‘Deads’ town’, they told me that the town was very far away and only deads were living there.

Now we could not return where we were coming from (my wife’s father’s town) we must go to the Deads’ town. Then we left that town after the 3rd day that we arrived there; from that town to the Deads’ town there was no road or path which to travel, because nobody was going there from that town at all.