Abstract
1. The present paper is the first of a series embodying restatements of OTG,1 and presenting hitherto unpublished text material, with analyses. It also contains some general conclusions resulting from what were in effect two entirely distinct sets of field observations. In most studies of the languages of preliterate peoples, the material is collected in one extended field trip or several such trips close together in time, with no further contact with the speakers; it becomes a closed file, as it were (very much like the extant material of a dead language). On the
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