Crossword-Solution: HOPA 4 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Close to her lolled small Hopa, blithe and gay As a young cricket, teasing all the rest With her sharp wit; often she dropped her work-- The threading of bright flowers into wreaths-- To look across the waves, and suddenly She called, "A sail, a little sail," and all Followed her pointing fingers.

All give vent to loud shouts: ‘Hopa, hopa! go on, go on--Mgogolo! a stoppage--food, food--don’t be tired--the kraal is here--home is near--hasten, Kirangozi--oh! we see our mothers--we go to eat.’ On the road it is considered prudent, as well as pleasurable, to be as loud as possible, in order to impress upon plunderers an exaggerated idea of the caravan’s strength; for equally good reasons silence is recommended in the kraal.