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engaged in making cat's cradles. At length she t'ound a girl whom the arm-bands fitted and 

 brought her back vvith her. They rested at the mouth of the Orifimu river before proceeding 

 upstreani, and in the night a liiwai-abére placed the girl into a certain empty root which she threw 

 into the water. .She assumed the giil's face and became Novàres wife. The root with the girl 

 inside floated up the river with the tide, and Xoxare heard iiei- wailing in the night. He rescued 

 her. and the h ma i -obere was killed. 



l.")l. The Brother and Sister and /he Deccitful Hin'oi-Aberc. A hiwai-abcre came to the 

 man Javväna, and he mai'iied her. .She enticed his sister awa\- into a tree. One day Jawdna 

 heard the girl crjdng there and rescued her, and they killed the hih<ai-nbrrc. 



152. Fii'c Htwat-Abere carry away a Man. Desiring to catch the man Koudabo five 

 hiwai-abere transformed themselves into certain fruit, and when he came to pick thèse the hiwai- 

 ahére carried him away into a stone. They wanted to eat him, and by holding a little of his 

 flesh over the fire they found that he was fat enough. In theii- temporary absence Koudäbo sum- 

 moned \arious animais which tried to open the door in tlie stone. The cassowary kicked it open, 

 and Koudäbo returned home. In order to get away. from the hmai-abcre he went with the people 

 to the reef, but the hhvai-abere transformed themselves into five dugong, and when Koidabo and 

 his friends speared them they were carried away into the sea where they all became dugong. 



1,')3. Hou' a Hiwai-Abere iiiade the First Dugong and carried away a Man. K'i'ba's wite 

 while fishing hung up hei' baby boy in a basket close to the water, and a hiwai-ahcre passed 

 into his body. The rising tide closed over the basket, and the boy was transformed into a dugong. 

 Kiba speared the dugong and was dragged away on to the sea. The animal stranded at Mäbuiag, 

 and Kiba remained there and married two girls of the Island. — Kiba and his people were towed 

 away by the dugong in a canoe. and in the end they were all transformed into turtles. 



154. The Adventures of a Little Girl with a Bad ^Vornan and the Attempts of her Mot/ter 

 to Protect her. Due had two wives, Mugima aud Jasänga, and nne day the latter went away 

 with her little daughter Wtawia, for she was badly treated by Mugi'ma. An ,,old vvoman" wanted 

 to eat Wiawia and shut her up in her house, but the girl escaped by transforming herself into a 

 bird. -She left a pièce of wood in her place, asking it to detain the old woman. Then she joined 

 her mother and resumed her human shape. The two took refuge in a high tree, and when the 

 old woman in pursuit of them tried to climb up it she feil and was crushed to death. Unable to 

 Protect the girl Jesänga went to Due, asking him to keep his child, and as he declined she killed 

 the girl herself and afterwards wept bitterly. She settled dovvn in another place. Wiavvi'a's spirit 

 told Due in a dream what had happened. He went and lived inside a tree and Mugima inside a 

 water-hole. 



155. The Old Mag who killed and ate other Women. A bad woman used to hold dances 

 for the people, and every time she caused one of the women to be killed, and ate the bodies. 

 She had the power to make the sun accelerate its course when she wanted some event to take 

 place quickl\-. At length she was detected and killed. 



156. The Murder of a „Wild Woman'" who used to stcal from a Garden. A man went 

 to kill an old woman who stole from his garden. She tried to spear him, hut he foxestalled her 

 and slew her. 



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