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THEY have a legend in the Akasava country of a green devil. He is taller than the trees, swifter than the leopard, more terrible than all other ghosts, for he is green -- the fresh, young green of the trees in spring -- and has a voice that is a strangled bark, like the hateful, rasping gr-r-r of a wounded crocodile.
This is M'shimba-m'shamba, the Swift Walker.