Tjenga was afraid because he had shot the beautiful eland. He lay down silently in the bush, resting and waiting for the poison arrow to do its work. The sky and the air around Tjenga shivered from the midday heat while the hunter waited for the eland to die. Suddenly, the eland turned into a person. Tjenga's heart was even more afraid, for he did not mean to kill a person. What would the people say if they found that he had killed a person? Tjenga walked to his friend Ngu, to tell him what had happened. When he found his friend and told him the news, he said, "I am in big trouble. I hunted an eland and after I shot it, it became a person. Please, you must help me now so that I can bury it before the people see what I have done." Ngu said, "Oh no! You are not my own family. I cannot make your problem my problem!" With a sore heart, the young hunter returned to his own people.

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