60 Gunnar Landtman. 



THE QUARREL ABOUT THE BROKEN CROTON AT lASA. 



473. One night a bad man nearly eut through the stem of a croton, and in the morning 

 another man who happened to lean against the tree broke it off completely. The latter man was 

 accused of ruining the croton, and a great fight ensued. 



THE PEOPLE WHO SUFFERED FROM THIRST. 



474. During a drought the people had to dépend upon coconuts for drini<. A certain 

 man could not climb a coconut tree and asked his son to follovv him to the bush. But the boy 

 let his parents go aione, and the latter who had relied upon him nearly died from thirst. On his 

 return home the father killed his son. 



475. A man vvent alone a long way into the bush without having anything to drink and 

 died there from thirst. 



476. A man had no water, and none of the people gave him an}'. He died from thirst. 

 There was a quarrel among the people över his death. 



IGNORANT ODJO WHO WAS INSTRUCTED BY BERO. 



477. Ôdjo lived in a hole in a tree and fed on crumbs of wood. Bero induced him to 

 come and live in a proper house and instructed him in many of the things of which he was 

 ignorant. 



B. SOCIAL PRACTICE. 



THE PUNISHMENT OF THE HUNTER WHO DID NOT SHARE THE PIGS KILLED BY 

 HIM WITH THE PEOPLE BUT ATE THEM HIMSELF. 



478. A man caught a pig in a trap and ate it himself in the bush. In order to deceive 

 his wives on his return home he inflicted some wounds on himself and pretended to have been 

 attacked by enemies. This was repeated several times, but in the end his wives found him out 

 and killed him. 



THE PUNISHMENT OF THE BOY WHO WAS SENT WITH FOOD TO ANOTHER 



PERSON AND ATE IT HIMSELF. 



479. A man invited his friends to a meal and sent a boy with food to some of them 

 who could not come. But the boy climbed a tree with the food and ate it there. On repeating 

 the same thing another time the boy was shot dead by the man who had sent him. 



THE LONELY MAN WHO WAS INDUCED TO COME AND LIVE WITH THE PEOPLE. 



480. A man was living by himself in the bush, and his only companion was a female 

 dog. The people found him- and pitying him brought him to live with them in the village. 



Tom. XLVII. 



