Reports of encounters with members of an unknown tribe got ever more numerous, and so Chieftain Buroogu decided that it was time to send an envoy to the other tribe’s chieftain. The time and place of their meeting were decided a few days later, and the two met on a hill overlooking a wide but shallow river. Buroogu took with him a score of his best hunters, but he was surprised when he saw two scores of young men with spears behind the other chieftain. Kawoli was his name. Although they spoke in somewhat different tongues, the two chieftains understood each other rather well. They quickly agreed on the river as the boundary between the two tribes. To cement their agreement, they also agreed to exchange women who just started menstruating. Three women from each tribe was the number that suited them both. “Better share than snatch,“ chuckled Buroogu. “Better share than snatch,” Kawoli repeated and chuckled in turn. When the women were brought to the river, they were in tears, but the hunters on both sides started singing upon seeing them. Some game was brought to the fire, and the celebration started. “Better share than snatch,” the two chieftains exclaimed in unison, and their men joined them enthusiastically. Huddled together, the women stopped crying and hesitantly joined the festivity. Soon they started talking to each other and giggling at their slip-ups with different tongues.