It is customary, also, to place calabashes of palm wine at the feet of these trees, in case they should be thirsty.

Then he filled a calabash with fresh cool water, and the fierce warriors looked on in wonder and silence while he carried it to the old man and his daughter.

So when he was asked what the amulet contained, he replied: "Hair clipped from the King's head when he was a child; a piece of the calabash from which he first drank milk; and the tooth of the first snake he killed.

His body was like an old calabash in which you have kept liquor for a quarter of a century.