/H Gunnar Landtman. 



différent kinds of game and fish for food. She used to carry a spear horizontallj' on her head, 

 holding it vvith both hands, point forwards, and she killed the différent animais by bending down 

 and spearing them. 



Once she killed a kangaroo in this way. and as she left the body without cooking it, a 

 quantity of worms appeared in the meat after a few nigths. When the worms became larger 

 they turned into small babies, and Ua-ögrere heard them waiiing, ,,Énga-cnga-cnga."- She washed 

 the babies one by one and ga\'e them fish, bananas, and sugar-cane to eat, and they developed 

 verv rapidly. ' In a short time they were able to run ; some of them were boys and some girls. 



One day Ua-ögrere told the boys to eut some bamboo as v\-ell as reeds and palm-wood, 

 and she taught them to make bows and arrows. And the girls. who were all nude, were taught 

 to split the rind of a certain wood and make petticoats; as the petticoats were too long when 

 they put them on, they had to eut them shorter with a shell. When all were ready the woman 

 said, „You felluw man now, man he got how-arrow, woman got grass (petticoats)." Then she 

 said, „What woman he want man, he catch hold man; what man he want woman, he catch hold 

 him," and every man got a wife, and every woman a husband. The old woman distributed all 

 sorts of fruits and plants among the people and said, „You fellow got no garden, 1 give you 

 garden. You kaikai first time, drink gånioda, behind (afterwards) you fellow go make him garden, 

 plant him any kind thing. Altogether you fellow feed me." From that time the old woman 

 ceased to work in her garden, „he (she) give all garden along pickaninny, that's mother belong 

 everybody." 



Ät the same time that the men and women married they built houses, one for each 

 couple, and they also built a men's house (nidia; Kiwai, ddriino). Ua-6grere frequented the mäia 

 as if she had been a man, and she also used to carry a bow and arrows like a man. She taught 

 the men to hang up the bones of pigs and cassowaries in the mäta. 



One day Ua-ögrere sent the men away to hunt in the bush, and in their absence she 

 made a very low small hut of branches and leaves, and told one man, who had remained in the 

 village, to go with her into the hut. There she taught him the practiee of sodomy and said, „By 

 and by you show him altogether young man that fashion; suppose he make him he come long 

 (tall) fellow, before people he too short. People no leave that fashion, suppose he leave him, he 

 come short fellow." 



At first the people had been so short in stature that the mens beards had reached to the 

 ground, but after the introduction of the new custom the young people grew very tall. However, 

 the parents and a few others who had not practiced it remained short. 



On another occasion the young, tall people were sent by their parents to hunt pigs and 

 cassowaries in the bush, and on their return they found the old fathers, who had arisen from 

 the worms, assembled in the men's house, eaeh one standing at one of the posts. The hunters 

 were singing, 



„Udrebode kiikupi ölet/o ivöplcinalo paie.''' 



„Bänt nbht örcngasi düäiin'." 



,,Mlàgi irue hcdelaiiie wntua löje biibuamawa jagohe." 



The meaning is, „All he glad, he been catch him pig, cassowary, he sing." 



Tom. XLVn. 



