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Now the tree began to shake, as it had been almost cut through, 



and the hunter in great terror cried to his dogs at the top of his 



voice : 



Ya-me-oro, Con-ga-mo-ro-to ! 



Ya-me-o-ro, Con-ga-mo ro-to ! 

 but all in vain. 



Then he took the second of his magic arrows, and, fitting it to 

 his bow, he shot it down into the ground. At once another palm 

 sprang up, taller and stronger than the first, to which the hunter 

 leaped. And he was not a moment too soon ; for the tree he had 

 left tottered from its base and fell with a great crash to the 

 ground. 



When the white cows saw the second tree, they were very an- 

 gry, and rushed at it again with their axes, plying stroke on 

 stroke in their rage and fury, while the hunter kept calling his 

 dogs by name : 



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Ya - me - o - ro Cong - a - mo - ro - t3 ! 

 and the axes rang louder and louder : 



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r -- -& -#-- h r -#- -&- w -# - r 



:. * 3 :?. * 5: 



A - phi - bim-m-gas -co - ma - bam, a - phi-bim-m-gas -co - ma- bam. 



Soon the second tree was ready to fall, and the hunter had to 

 shoot his last arrow into the ground, when a palm taller and 

 larger than either of the others sprang up into the air. Now he 

 saw that unless help came quickly his end was near ; for he had 

 no more arrows, and above the din of the axes he called as loud 

 as he was able : 



Come, Ya-me-o-ro! come, Con-ga-mo ro-to! 



Suddenly he saw the fair stranger approaching, and he called 

 to her to help him, and run back and loose the dogs ; but she 

 laughed at him, saying that his dogs could not aid him now ; and 

 as she spoke she changed into a white cow herself, and the hunter 

 saw that she was the queen of the herd, who had become a woman 

 only to entrap him. Still the axes kept crying : 



A-phi-bim Gas-co-ma-bam ; 



A-phi-bim Gas-co-ma-bam ! 



and the tree was almost cut through. For the last time the 

 hunter called his dogs to come to his help : 



Come, Ya-me-o-ro ! come, Con-ga-mo-ro-to ! 

 and as he did so he heard a crashing sound in the bushes, and 



