Makuinii

Seen in the folk-tales

• Kimenemene, uanomona makuinii-a-uana a mukuta; uasoneka mukanda, uxi: “Enu, na Kumbi ni Mbeji, dixikina mu diz' odio; eme ngaxala mu kenga o kilembu.Morning, he took forty macutas; wrote a letter, saying: “You, Lord Sun and Moon, the first-present is coming here; I remain to seek for the wooing-present.XIII · told by Jelemía dia Sabatelu.
• Ki abange izúa, ngana Ngo, ki amono Ngulungu uala kiá ni makuinii-a-uana ma hombo, uia kuà Ngulungu ku mu ambela, kuma: "O jihombo, tu ji uana."After some days had passed, Mr. Leopard, seeing that Antelope now had forty goats, went to Antelope's place to tell him, saying: "Let us divide the goats."XXVI · told by Francisco P. dos Santos Vandunem, a blind but gentlemanly old man of Loanda's native aristocracy, said to descend from a royal line of the A-Luá-lunga or A-bidi tribe.