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leaders named lou and one of the Idsa leaders named Ikuri were killed by means of sorcery in an 

 oulburst of the mutual hatred (the tree Gâgama is not mentioned at ail). The exchange of the two 

 bodies is related as in previous versions. From lâsa some men subsequently went to Mi'bu Island 

 and Pa.'ira, intendinc; to remain there, but they were driven away from the former place by sickness. 

 (Gamca, Mawàta). 



F. There are five more short taies about the theft of the coconuls and the ensuing fight, the 

 détails are similar to those in one or other of the preceding versions. (Obi'iro, lâsa; Bogéra, Epure, 

 Japia and Manu, Ipisi'a). 



Gdgama is mentioned in no. 3 A, and lo and Ikuri in no. 473. 



FURTHER CONFLICTS AND MIGRATIONS OF THE KIWAIS. 



5. The Id.sa, Kuhi'ra, and Auti people were living together in the bush. One day while 

 the other inhabitants where away in their gardens, two men named Âge and Wâbau, who remained 

 at home, stole the bows and arrows left in the house. Åge handed them eut through a hole 

 in the flooring to Wâbau, who was standing underneath the house, and after tying them up in 

 two bundles, one for each of them, thej' hid them in the hush. On returning home the owners 

 discovered their loss and cried out, „Hallo, who been take my bow and arrow'" They were 

 furiously angry and drawing the bows which they were carrying, they began to let fly their arrows 

 in ail directions calling out the while, „Who take that bow and arrow belong me?" And there 

 was a great commotion and fight. 



Another day before leaving for their gardens the people said to a cripple, who was unable 

 to move about and always stayed in the men's house, ' „Vou watch, me fellow go bush, I 

 leave you inside house. You no stop along high place, you stop along dark place." The cripple, 

 who was then left alone in the house, pretended to be asleep with his face resting on his arms. 

 While he thus lay in wait Wâbau entered the house and began to hand out some bows and 

 arrows through the fioor to Age, who received them underneath the house. „Oh, that beggar!" 

 the cripple thought, „He steal now, another fellow he stop underneath house," and he kept on 

 snoring, feigning .sleep. 



When the people came back from the bush the cripple said, „Two fellow there, Wâbau 

 and Age, he been steal ail bow-arrow." A fierce fight raged for several days, the Auti and Paâra 

 people taking one side, and the Osudai, Wicîrubi, and Peredârimo people the other. At last the 

 Auti and Paâra people said, „Come on, you me (we) leave him that place, you me go other 

 place." .So the Auti people moved to their present village, and the Paâra people to theirs. (Duâne, 

 Mawâta). 



A. Age and Wàbau stole bows, arrows, and other things as in the previous versions, and 

 although an old woman stayed in that very house ail the time she did not notice anything. The fol- 

 lowing days she was again set to watch the village, but the two men acted so cleverly, that they were 

 only detected by her after the thieving had gone on for several days. When discovered, Age and Wâbau 

 caught hold of the woman and outraged her. On her husband's return she told him what had hap- 

 pened, and he beat her with a stick. Age and Wâbau had run away into the bush and lived there on 

 coconuts, which they stole at night. At last they were discovered and killed, and their heads were eut 



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