22 Gunnar Landtman. 



53 — 54. Naga, IVakea and Sigai. Wakéa, a bushman of Mâsingâra, flew in the shape 

 of a hornbill to Nàga in Yam. The two made Tüdo Island, and Nâga settled down there. — 

 Wakéa and Sigai (Naga) flew from Yâm to Queensland and fought the people there. The skulls 

 and skin of the captured heads were transformed into stonas and sandbanks. The two also vvent 

 to fight the Daudai people in a canoe which carried them along of its ovvn accord. One of 

 Wakéa's bones, which measured an enormous size, was kept for a long time on a rock in Yäm. 



55. Naga's Injury and Revcngc. In Nâga's absence his wife was outraged by two men. 

 In order to take revenge Nâga made a crocodile and passed into it. The monster eut its way to 

 and fro through Tiidu Island, forming the many Channels which are there. Näga in the shape of 

 the crocodile swallowed up his people's canoës except the one which his own family was in. 

 By cutting its way inland the crocodile formed the rivers in Nev\- Guinea. Nâga made a home 

 for himself at a place on the Binatüri river. The people still eut the bamboo there for their bows 

 and offer Naga dugong meat, asking him to help them. 



MERAVE OF THE FAMOUS DRUM, AND DAPE. 



56. Dâpe heard the sound of Mérave's drum and paddled up the river to get it. He 

 obtained the drum by giving up his wife to Mérave. Dâpe was warned not to stop anywhere 

 on his return journey, but his little son vvho had accompanied his parents induced him to fetch 

 him some fruit from a tree growing on the river bank, and when Dâpe and his wife landed and 

 had connection on the shore the drum tore itself free from the ropes with which it had been tied 

 up, caught the boy and disappeared with him into the vvater. The people dammed up the creek 

 and bailed out the water, but the dam broke, and they were carried awaj' by the torrent. — The 

 dam was bored through by a certain man by means of a fish or stick. — The drum had been 

 made out of a dead body. — It called out Mérave's name, „Mérave, Mérave!" The bush was 

 Hooded, and a hunter in order to save his dögs hanged them up in a tree by a string round 

 their bodies. — Begerédubu was carried to Waboda by the rush of the vvater. A crab squeezed 

 his penis which caused it to swell up, and since then the Waboda men who descend from him 

 have large penises. 



NABEAMURO, THE GREAT FIGHTER, AND HIS MARRIAGE WITH ANOTHER MAN'S 



WIFE; MORIGIRO AND KEABURO. 



57. Sivares first wife who was neglected by him, caused a crocodile to catch him, and 

 the man remained alive in the vvater. The people thought him dead. His father Gumaru went 

 to Kfwai and adopted Nâbeamùro, the great fighter, bringing him home with him where he gave 

 him Sivare's wives and gardens. After a time the Hrst wife recalled .Sivare to life. He heard 

 vvhat his father had done and prepared to fight Nâbeamùro. They, however, were reconciled 

 and divided the women between them. After a time Nabeamüro's wild temper broke out, and he 

 killed a number of the people and then sailed avvay. He called at many places killing the people 

 everywhere, The Åbo people alone resisted him, and he lost his weapons and had to flee. At 

 length he came to his brother who lived at läsa. The two were attacked by some people and 



Tom, XLVII. 



