buso

Buso's mansion stretched across the tops of eight million mountains, and very many smaller houses were on the sides of the mountains, all around the great Buso's house; for this was the city of the buso where they had taken Tuglay.

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[68] But the rice-field belonged to Buso, and the harvesters were all buso-men.

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The tears of all the buso ran down like blood; they wept streams and streams of tears that all flowed together, forming a deep lake, red in color.

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Then another day the Tuglay spoke to all the buso, "It is now my turn: let me try whether I can cut your necks."

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When he went down the steps, all the other buso had come, and were waiting for him in front of the house.

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Into the presence of the great chief of all the buso, they dragged

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All the lesser buso began to weep, fearing that their chief would be killed; for the isse appeared to all of them as a keen-bladed knife.

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He fought until every one of the three thousand buso fell down dead.

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When he found nobody at home, he ran after the children, carrying with him many iron axes and big bolos, and accompanied by a crowd of other buso.

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Malaki who had slain the Bia and the eight young men went looking for more people to kill; and when he had shed the blood of many, he became a buso with only one eye in his forehead, for the buso with one eye are the worst buso of all.

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