The Folk-Taks of the Kiivai Papiians. 85 



for you, ariimo (penis) that's nothing, carry him outside." Javâgi laid out beds for himself and 

 the woman and girl, and put up some large leaves for a sheiter. He slept with the elder woman 

 in the night. They stayed together at Biigamo, Javâgi killed pigs and cassowaries for them, and 

 the vvomen cleared land for a garden. The elder woman became pregnant, and in the course of 

 time she withdrew for a vvhile into the bush and bore a boy, who was named Bäduame. 



As soon as the boy was weaned Ôrle-wdlo and Javâgi went away, saying to Morari, the 

 girl, „You stop here, you look out (after) boy. Me two fellow go back along Kiiru, you two fel- 

 lovv belong Bugamo." So the two went to Küru and settled down there. 



Morari and Bâduame remained at Biigamo. Now there were many people living at Kunini, 

 on the other side of the Bi'natûri river. They too had sprung from worms which had grown in 

 the fruit of Orle-walo and Morari's Hdw7«'-tree, but their fruit had fallen into the water and floated 

 över to the other river-bank. Once when Mnrari was Walking in the bush she heard the voices 

 of the Kunini people on the other side of the river. „That geese he yarn along swamp.?" she 

 thought to herself, „that water (sea) he make noise outside.' No, that man there walk other side." 

 And she called out, „People there.' .somebody there.' That man? that pigeon walk about?" When 

 she saw the people she asked them, „VVhere you belong?" „Me belong Kunini," they answered 

 from the other bank, and the girl said, „Me belong Bdgamo." The Kunini men climbed up a tree 

 which was leaning ower the water, hooked in a branch of a tree on the opposite bank, and tied 

 the two together. „Road here, you come," they said to Mörari and Bâduame, and the two came 

 över to the other side and remained with the Kunini people. They are the ancestors of the Bügamo 

 group of people, and their descendants since that time have had gardens on the Bügamo side of 

 the river whence they have come. Tiie Kunfni people used to go to the sea to catch fish and crabs, 

 and the path leading out to the coast is still called Kunini-^rt7;o. Låter on, in conséquence of a 

 great sickness (ef. n:o 434), they moved out to the coast altogether, and settled down at their 

 present place which is called Piimogüri. (Ndmai, Mawâta). 



THE ORIGIN OF THE MAWATA PEOPLE. 



(Continued from the preceding tale.) 



15. Bâduame was a head man of the Bügamo or Küru people. 



While he was still a boy, the men once went hunting in the bush, and on their return 

 Bâduâme's sister Mörari tried to make another woman believe that the boy had killed a pig. But 

 the other woman said, „Oh, Mörari, you gammon, Bâduame he too small, he no can shoot pig." 

 When the spoil was distributed, no one gave Mörari and Bâduame any, for the people did not like 

 them. The same occurred the next day. The men were out hunting, and Mörari lied to another 

 woman that her little brother had killed a pig. None of the men gave them any meat. Then 

 Mörari brought a root called dnhi from the garden, cooked it only a little, and gave it half raw 

 to Bâduame to eat, saying, „This you kaikai. Father been leai^n (teach) me, that 'medicine' belong 

 you." After eating the diihi Bâduame became delirious, for the root is a powerful „medicine" 

 connected with fighting, and is also administered to dögs in order to make them „good along 

 bush". 



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