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The slave girls who were summoning the men were told to call all the men in the town, so they called the young cripple, Lame Habiyo. Then the Sultan asked the girls, "Are the men all here ? " And they said, " Yes." The girls were given six oranges, and...

A Grammar of the Somali Language: With Examples in Prose and Verse and an ... - Page 161
by John William Carnegie Kirk - 1905 - 216 pages
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Publications, Volume 54

Folklore Society (Great Britain) - Folklore - 1904 - 588 pages

...cripple, Lame Habiyo. Then the Sultan asked the girls, "Are the men all here ? " And they said, " Yes." The girls were given six oranges, and they were told,...married the girl. On the next day they were told, "That which will cure the Sultan and his wife is rhinoceros' milk." And the young men who married the...

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Folklore, Volume 15

Joseph Jacobs, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Arthur Robinson Wright, William Crooke - Electronic journals - 1904 - 602 pages

...cripple, Lame Habiyo. Then the Sultan asked the girls, "Are the men all here?" And they said, "Yes." The girls were given six oranges, and they were told,...married the girl. On the next day they were told, "That which will cure the Sultan and his wife is rhinoceros' milk." And the young men who married the...

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