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THE ANIMALS WHO WERE SUMMONED TO DOCTOR A WOMAN. 



438. A fish passed into a vvomans vulva, and various animais were felched to puU it 

 out. Tiiey all failed except the wallaby, but the woman died. 



THE CROCODILE AND THE SEA-HORSE. 



439. The sea-horse was born by a shell-fish and went to live with the crocodile, making 

 friends with him. A man and woman tried to bring it back but it lemained with the crocodile, and 

 the latter killed the woman. 



THE CASSOWARY AND CROCODILE WHO QUARRELLED ABOUT A SAGOTREE. 



440. The cassowary planted a sago tree, and the crocodile cleared away the grass 

 around it, and since then both claimed the ownership of the tree and played tricks upon each other. 



THE ORIGIN OF THE BOUKOU BIRD. 



441. A man who had no tame animais made a bird which he wanted to keep. He 

 offered it various kinds of food but it only ate snakes. The bird flew into the bush. 



HOW CRABS WERE BROUGHT TO THE ISLANDS. 



442. A canoe in which there were many crabs travelled about under the sea, and at 

 every Island some of the animais went on shore and remained there. 



THE ORIGIN OF ANTS'-NESTS IN COCONUT TREES. 



443. A man while climbing a coconut tree could neither get up nor down and was 

 transformed into an ants' nest fixed to the trunk of the tree. 



THE BIRDS WHO HELD A DANCE IN AN ANTS-NEST. 



444. A bird made its house in an ants' nest in a tree and invited the other birds to a dance. 



THE ANTS WHO CONQUERED ALL THE OTHER ANIMALS. 



445. The ants and frog fought, and the latter was killed. Then the other animais tried 

 to conquer the ants but were killed, one after another. 



HOW MOSQUITOES CAME. 



446. Formerly the mosquitoes were shut up in a house belonging to a woman. The 

 people stole her bananas, and in revenge she let the mosquitoes out. 



Tom. XLVII. 



