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on Hearing the sound of their drums the elder brother and his people went to the place. The 

 brothers met, and their quarrel was forgotten. 



257. The elder brother had fine arrows, and the younger stole some of them, but was 

 caught and punished. He wei^t away to a distant place and married there. After a time he 

 returned, bringing with him a number of arrows and his tvvo wives. He was reconciled to his 

 brother and gave him one of his wives. The two brothers' dögs were involved in the tale. 



258. A man neglected to mend his brother's fish trap, and they quarrelled. 



259. The younger brother had connection with his elder brother's wife. and the husband 

 left the offender in a sago palm which the latter had been lured to climb. He scraped a passage 

 in.side the tree to the ground and was eut out by a woman and her daughter, the latter of whom 

 he afterwards married. He killed his brother and sister-in-law in revenge. 



SONARE AND HIS SIX BLIND BROTHERS. 



260. Sonare had six blind brothers, and in spite of all their attemps they could not help 

 him in his work. When Sonäre and his wife were away the blind men „humbugged" a grass 

 petticoat belonging to their sister-in-law, and this caused her to become pregnant. Sondre found 

 them out and caused their hands to be jammed up in the trunk of a tree which he was splitting; 

 in that plight he left them in the bush. The woman gave birth to a son, and when the boy had 

 grown up Sonare released the brothers and even gave them their eyesight. 



Vin. TALES OF AGRICULTURE (26i-27i) 



THE FIRST BULL-ROARER. 



261. While a woman was cutting firewood a splinter whirled up with a whizzing sound. 

 It was the first bull-roarer, and in the night it came to her in a dream and told her how she 

 should use it when planting her garden. She imparted her knowledge to the people. 



THE FIRST COCONUT. 



262. (Kiwai version). A woman had a growth like a ball hanging between her legs, 

 and when she had connection with a man it came off and feil into the water. One day on seeing 

 the ball she thought that it was a fish and asked the man to catch it. He threw the thing on to 

 the shore and there it began to grow and became a coconut tree. When the fruit were ripe the 

 man was informed in a dream of the existence of the tree. He let his dogs first eat some of the 

 kernel of a nut, and then he ate some himself. The coconuts were distributed among the people. 



263. (Mâsingâra version). Dâgi heard the wild fowl calling out the name of his son 

 Nüe and asked the boy to-go and shoot it. The dead bird was planted in the ground, head 

 downward, and developed into a coconut tree. Nüe let his dogs first taste the kernel of a nut and 

 divided the rest of the nuts among the people. Two men who were absent at the time were left 



Tom. XLVU. 



