section_path: Oral literature/19th-century collections
section_name: 19th-century collections
paragraph_text: 19th-century collections
  
  In 1870, Edward Steere published Swahili Tales as Told by Natives of Zanzibar, a collection of 23 Swahili tales with facing-text English translation, along with a selection of proverbs and riddles. Some of the tales included are: " Kisa cha Punda wa Dobi, " "The Story of the Washerman's Donkey," also known as " The Heart of a Monkey;" " Mwalimu Goso, " "Goso the Teacher," a cumulative tale; and" Sungura na Simba, " "The Hare and the Lion," a story about the trickster hare.
  
  Here are some of the proverbs that Steere recorded in Swahili:
  
  Here are some of the riddles that Steere recorded in Swahili:
  
  Steere also includes the formulaic announcement of a riddle:
  
  An anonymous publication from 1881, Swahili Stories from Arab Sources with an English Translation, includes 15 stories in Swahili with English translations, plus an additional 14 Swahili stories that are not translated. There is also a selection of proverbs and riddles with English translations.
  
  Here are some of the proverbs:
  
  Here are some of the riddles:
  
  For additional collections of Swahili prose from the 19th century, see the inventory in J. D. Rollins's A History of Swahili Prose from Earliest Times to the End of the Nineteenth Century.