My future parents-in-law had asked me for a bundle of stock-fish so that I could marry their daughter according to civil rites. I have already given … - Ferdinand Oyono

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My future parents-in-law had asked me for a bundle of stock-fish so that I could marry their daughter according to civil rites. I have already given them thirty thousand francs, a case of beer, a pith-helmet, a sack of salt, three matchets, three sheep, a water-bucket, a cast-iron cooking pot, and a sack of rice. All that was left was the stock fish.