Similar suspicions were triggered by "Um Beijo," an original ballad that Mr. Barron outfitted with unfocused meanderings instead of his usual clear-eyed lyricism; and by "Calypso," a ditty with a rhythmically prescriptive title.

The lines and tufts of green moss, here and there, seemed pledges of familiarity and sisterhood with Nature; as if this human dwelling-place, being of such old date, had established its prescriptive title among primeval oaks and whatever other objects, by virtue of their long continuance, have acquired a gracious right to be.

The Court considered Namibia's alternative argument that it (and its predecessors) had prescriptive title to Kasikili/Sedudu Island by virtue of the exercise of sovereign jurisdiction over it since the beginning of the century, with full knowledge and acceptance by the authorities of Botswana (and its predecessors).