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THE MAN WITHOUT FIREWOOD. 



488. The Man ivho was refused Firewood by läs IVi/e and was killed by her. A man 

 used to dépend upon his wife to give him firewood, but at length she refused to let him have 

 any more. One night when he wanted to light a tire at his place in the men's house he went 

 outside the house where his wife was and as usual asked her to give him firewood. The woman 

 threw out a pièce of wood which was sharp at one end and unknowingly hit her husband in the 

 eye, killing him. He was found in the morning. 



489. The Man who offered his Drum for soine Fireivood. A man had omitted to provide 

 himself with firewood, and one night when some visitors came he had nothing to light a fire 

 with. He asked his friends for firewood but no one gave him any, even when he offered his 

 drum in exchange. At length he smashed the drum and lighted a fire of the broken pièces. He 

 felt so mortified that he caused himself to be killed in a subséquent fight. 



490. The Man ivho had left himself without Fireivood and subsequently made up for his 

 Neglect by cutting a Great Ouantity of it. A man who never brought home firewood was one 

 night in need of a fire and had great difficulty in obtaining some from a friend. After that he 

 set out and eut firewood for many days in succession. 



THE MAN WHO WAS PUT TO SHAME AND COMMITTED SUICIDE. 



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■; 491 — 492. A man was put to shame before the people on account of the behaviour ot 



his wife (in the other instance: his baby) and caused his own death. 



C. VARIOUS ADDITIONAL STORIES. 



THE DELUGE. 



493. A Kfwai man caused the whole country to be flooded but saved himself and his 

 belongings in a canoe. The water closed över the coconut trees, and the people in their canoës 

 were swept away. At length the water abated. When the land was bare the same man went 

 and removed the spell with which he had caused the llood. 



HOW THE SEA DRIED UP. 



494. All the sea once fiowed into a woman, causing her body to svvell out enormously. 

 One day she squatted down, and the water gushed out again, whereupon she laughed, and copying 

 her the waves in the sea are still „laughing". 



THE ORIGIN OF THE SWAMP AND WATER-HOLE IN BOIGU. 



495. Three brothers eut a passage across Böigu by a throw of a spear, and in the same 

 vvay they created the swamp and water-hole on the Island. The brothers inaugurated certain 

 rites which must be followed by those who drink from the waterhole. 



Tom. XLVII. 



