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greatly surprised at seeing his friend smoke and'said, „I think he got fire inside, smoke he corne out." 

 The lâsa man nearly fainted when smoking for the first time. (Tdmetame, Ipisîa). 



Two Simârobe made a friendship between Kubi'ra and làsa, cf. no. 6 B. 



THE FOUNDATION OF THE PAARA AND AUTI VILLAGES. 



8. A long time ago the Auti and Pa:ira people lived at Lisa. Once a certain man named 

 Sibara and his people sailed away in a canoë looking for another place to live in. They passed 

 by Kubira and fought the Irago people in Dùdi, and at length they arrived in Pa:ira. There lived 

 a man named Wimari, and he was killed by Sibara. Si'bara's younger brother Ôromobùo went 

 and settled dovvn at Auti and killed a man named twoi vvho lived there before. At Wi'marimùba 

 point between Paâra and Auti there lived some people whom Sibara and Ôromobùo used to fight. 

 Once some of them managed to kill a „brother" of Ôromobùo, and after cutting off his head they 

 placed his body in a canoë and let it drift with the tide back to Auti. There it was found by 

 Ôromobùo who wailed over his brother and buried him. 



While the people of Padra and Auti were building a mens house in the latter place, 

 Ôromobùo roamed about the country chasing the Wi'marimùba people and killing many of them. 

 Once a great attack was made upon the Wîmarimùba people by the Paära and Auti warriors, 

 and only two men of the former party escaped. On another occasion the two fugitives killed an 

 Auti man but were discovered and surrounded; after a long fight they succumbed, and the Auti 

 people eut off their heads, hands, and legs in revenge. The two were the last of the Wîmari- 

 mùba people. (Båira, Paara). 



A. After the fight about the coconut tree called Gigama the lisa and Doropo people separated 

 (cf. no. 4). At the same time a man named Oromobùo and his younger brother Peninigo left I;isa and 

 the former went to Sépe (or Agidai), vvhereas the younger man settled at Auti. The Sépe people were 

 holding the mogüru ceremony, and as the présence of no stranger is tolerated on such an occasion, 

 some of the men decided to kill Oromobùo. At first they pretended to be very friendly, and some of 

 them who wanted to kill him the same night, were stopped by the others. In the morning Ôromobùo 

 was enticed away to a garden and killed there. His head was eut off, and the Sépe people placed the 

 body in a sitting position in his canoe, which they shoved off. The canoe drifted over to Auti, and 

 was found there by Péninigo, bringing him the news of what had taken place. Péninigo carried his 

 brother on shore and buried him, and then he went to wreak his vengeance upon the murderers. He 

 killed a great number of Agidai people, and the rest fied away, some to Wdpi and others to Dudi, 

 Ipidärimo, Näbedai, and Koäbu. (Duäne, Mawåta). 



THE ORIGIN OF THE MASINGARA PEOPLE. 



9. Long ago there lived at Mäsingara a vvoman named Ûa-ôgrere. .She had no husband 

 and no children but lived bj' herself, and she had always existed. She was the tirst person who 

 had never been bom, and no one had made her, nor had she sprung from the ground or from 

 a tree. At her place there were all sorts of edible fruits and plants, and she also used to catch 



N:o 1. 



