misidentifies the trickster ground-squirrel, k?nyérì, as a weasel.

Richard Francis Burton in his Wit and Wisdom from West Africa included a selection of the proverbs reported by Koelle. Here are some of those proverbs:
*"Angalte silman gani karga, kalalan karga." "Wisdom is not in the eye, but in the head." (#5)
*"Tama sugo diniabe." "Hope is the pillar of the world." (#16)
*"Ago fugubete, komande genya, ngudo dabu