_E._ Money makes the man.

_A._ Cocoanut is not good for bird to eat.
_E._ Sour grapes.

_A._ He runs away from the sword and hides himself in the scabbard.
_E._ Out of the frying-pan into the fire.

_A._ A fool of Ika and an idiot of Iluka meet together to make
friends.
_E._ Birds of a feather flock together.

_A._ The ground-pig [bandicoot] said: "I do not feel so angry with
the man who killed me as with the man who dashed me on the
ground afterward."
_E._ Adding insult to injury.

_A._ Quick loving a woman means quick not loving a woman.
_E._ Married in haste we repent at leisure.

_A._ Three elders cannot all fail to pronounce the word _ekulu_
[an antelope]: one may say _ekulu_, another _ekulu_, but
the third will say _ekulu_.
_E._ In a multitude of counselors there is safety.

_A._ If the stomach is not strong, do not eat cockroaches.
_E._ Milk for babes.

_A._ No one should draw water from the spring in order to supply
the river.
_E._ Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

_A._ The elephant makes a dust and the buffalo makes a dust, but
the dust of the buffalo is lost in the dust of the
elephant.
_E._ _Duo cum faciunt idem non est idem._

_A._ Ear, hear the other before you decide.
_E._ _Audi alteram partem._

On the side of number we have another test of the power of
abstraction; and while the lower races show lack of practice in this,
they show no lack of power. It is true that tribes have been found
with no names for numbers beyond two, three, or five; but these are
isolated groups, like the Veddahs and Bushmen, who have no trade or
commerce, and lead a miserable existence, with little or nothing to
count. The directions of attention and the simplicity or complexity
of mental processes depend on the character of the external situation
which the mind has to manipulate. If the activities are simple, the
mind is simple, and if the activities were nil, the mind would be nil.
The mind is nothing but a means of manipulating the outside world.
Number, time, and space conceptions and systems become more complex
and accurate, not as the human mind grows in capacity, but as
activities become more varied and call for more extended and accurate
systems of notation and measurement. Trade and commerce, machinery
and manufacture, and all the processes of civilization involve
specialization in the a