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cooked long
anough. He looked it over and said it was done.
Bring me a low stool for Ezinma he said mbt chapa, and a thick mat.
He took down the pot from the fire and placed it in front of the
stool. He then roused Ezinma and placed her on the stoolastride
the steaming pot. The thick mat was thrown over both. Ezinma
struggled to escape from the choking and overpowering steambut
she was held down. She started to cry.
When the mat was at last removed she was drenched in
perspiration. Ekwefi mopped her with a piece of cloth and she lay
down on a dry mat and was soon asleep.
CHAPTER TEN
Large crowds began to gather on the village ilo as soon as the
edge had worn off the sun's heat and it was no longer painful on
the body. Most communal ceremonies took place at that time of the
dayso that even when it was said that a ceremony would begin
after the midday meal
everyone understood that it would begin a
long time laterwhen the sun's heat had softened.
It was clear from the way the crowd stood or sat that the ceremony
was for men. There were many womenbut they looked on from
the fringe like outsiders. The titled men and elders sat on their
stools waiting for the trials to begin. In front of them was a row of
stools on wyilai:
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