84 Gunnar Landtman: 



différent places, for they were all uninhabited and had no names before. Ngåmuära, Bfnamenéa, 

 Djibu, Bödugo, Magi, Sävva, Gärna, Wörupi, Dirimo, and K'uni'ni, were named by him in 

 this way. 



At Bügamo a woman and a girl were living in an diiinltc-(iiövai-)i<c&Q. They had arisen 

 out of Worms in a decaying növai fruit. Some insects had laid their eggs in the fruit, thèse 

 developed into worms, and after a time wings began to grow on some of the worms, vvhich 

 became flies, while two of them vvhich grew arms and legs and a head became the woman and 

 girl. „Every thing me fellow savy," my informant said delighted with his knowledge of the 

 secrets of nature, „that's all one thing no savy, where house belong mosquito, where head (be- 

 ginning) belong him." 



The woman and girl who were living in the mivai-iree fed on „swamp-fish" only, for 

 they had no garden. They were both nude. Javägi came and found their footmarks which he 

 followed. „Oh, he throught," one more big, one he too (very) small. To-day he been go? 

 yesterday he been go? No, mud there he dry, I think yesterday he been go. Same place he been 

 come, he go back again." The woman and girl heard ItIs footfall, and tlie former said, „You stop 

 quiet, I think man he walk about, cassowary, pig he walk about.'" Javägi, who had lost sight of 

 the tracks and heard the voices behind him, came back towards the tree, „I been hear from here, 

 all same libatiba (an insect) he talk." The woman and girl in the tree thought, „Ground he no 

 more move, man he stand by now, I think he follow track belong me fellow." The girl moved 

 in the tree, and the man heard the noise, „Oh, man there inside tree," he thought. He called out, 

 „Man there, track I been follow. Man inside that tree 1 think." The woman and girl did not 

 answer and kept their fingers between their teeth so as not to laugh. „You no stop, you come 

 out, I want see you," the man went on, but the two women felt too ashamed to come out, for 

 they had no petticoals. Javägi thrust in the shaft-end of arrow into the hole to feel what was 

 inside, and touching the wood said to himself, „Proper tree I bite him now, make noise," and 

 again touching one of the women, „That man there inside, no make noise." As the inmates of 

 the tree did not stir, he said threateningly, „Proper th'ng, tcre-iopu (arrow-head) I push him now, 

 spear you, you look out." He thrust in the weapon, and hitting the wood thought, „That tree." 

 Next he speared the girl, but shc did not cry out, and the woman wiped away the blood from 

 the point of the arrow. Javägi knew hovvever, that he had speared somebody and called out, „Who 

 you some? Who you?" „No," the woman answered, „you say name belong you first." „Me 

 Javägi." „Who you belong?" „Me belong Küru." „You belong Küru, what's the matter you come, 

 that no place belong you?„ „I follow pig, cassowary, pigeon. 1 see that track, I follow. You there 

 woman?" „Yes, I woman." „Who you name?" „That my name Orle-wälo," (the fiower of a certain 

 tree). „That small pickaninny, he man? girl?" „That girl, name Mörari" (from mora, arrow). '" 



The woman said, „You go outside that way, I come out." Javägi went a short distance 

 away, and the woman and girl came out Screening their nakedness with their hands. He said to 

 them, „You two leave that tree, proper place belong man he stop outside, he look moon, look 

 star." Turning round and looking at their bodies he wondered, „What name that two fellow he 

 got? 1 no got that thing, I got lons one there." Javägi taught the women to make petticoats of 

 the rind of a certain wood, and kept himself at a distance in the meantime. He said, „That time 

 you been make him fast grass (petticoat), I come close to you. You shame for me, 1 no shame 



Tom. XLVII. 



