56 Gunnar Landtman. 



Ganümi was in the tree his face (the moon) got smeared with some sago-powder and is white 

 ever since. 



454. Ganümi's parents vvere very old vvhen he was born, and as thej^ feit ashamed they 

 put him in a bowl which they let float away. Ganümi was found by a girl Gebäe whose baby 

 was troubled with bad sores, and she picked him up and placed her own bab\' in the basin and 

 it was drowned. Ganümi passed for Gebàe's child. Once tvvo girls left him in a sago tree, he 

 became a bird and was fetched down by Gebäe. By a ruse she got him to hâve connection with 

 her but thev were seen by the people, and after that none of the girls would take him. Ganümi 

 and Gebäe went up to heaven and remained there. 



THE WANDERINGS OF THE SUN (HIWIA), MOON (GANÜMI), AND DARKNESS (DUO). 



455. The man quarrelled about the sun and moon, whether they were one and the same 

 or différent, and one man paddled away to find out. He came to the moon's place, and the 

 latter told him about himself, the sun, and darkness. In the end the moon towed the man's 

 canoë home. 



XX. MISCELLANEOUS TALES (456-4QS) 



A NARRATIVES ABOUT PEOPLE. 



HAWIA, THE WHITE HERON, PONIPONI, THE BEAUTIFUL GIRL AND HER SUITORS. 



455 — 457, The Disgwsed Boy wiih Sores. A boy with ulcerated sores li\ ed together with 

 some girls in Ki'wai and was badly treated by them ail excepting one. She procured him a bow 

 and arrows, and he shot a white héron with the feathers of which he made himself into a bird. 

 At night he resumed his human form but in the day he was a bird, leaving his ulcerated human 

 skin in the house. One day the girl burnt the skin in which he had been disguised, and thence- 

 forth he was a fine and handsome man. The girls quarrelled as to who should hâve him. T/ie 

 Dance for Poniponi. The girls went to Torres straits but found the Islands deserted, for the 

 people had ail gone to More. A great dance was held there, and the men danced in front 

 of the beautiful Pônipôni in order to find out whom she preferred. Hawia, the heron-man, 

 danced with the rest. The dance ended in a flght after which the birds and fish which had 

 taken part v\'ent away, and some characteristic circumstance is mentioned concerning each of 

 the différent species. Pönipöni went up into the sky, and the lightning is her smile. The Ki'vvai 

 girls returned home, and after their journey a regulär traftic began between the Torres straits 

 Islands and Ki'wai. — A young man Ki'imuhciru („cranky shark") took part in the dance before 

 Pönipöni and won her favour. 



HOW THE GIRL WITH SORES WAS BADLY TREATED BY HER SISTERS WITH THE 



EXCEPTION OF THE YOUNGEST. 



458. Only the youngest of the sistei's pitied the girl with sores and looked after hei'. 

 The sick girl found a taro which she, planted, and from it a whole garden of \-arious vegetables 



Tom. XLVll. 



