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crowd of them had assembled Gaméa said, „That two dugong belong you fellow. Two Mawäta 

 man been spear him, I give you fellow." The Måsingära men eut up the dugong, and distributed 

 the meat. They said, „That place belong j'ou altogether, me fellow been kaikai two dugong from 

 you. That ground belong you altogether right up to Måsingära." 



Gaméa sent Gegéra and Köiwaku to the remaining Mawåta people with the message, „You 

 fellow all he come, Gaméa no want wait long time." And the Mawäta people put all their things 

 together, laded the canoës, and'prepared to quit théir old home. At the thought of leaving Old 

 Mawäta they said. „Me sorry that ground, Mawäta, no good Gaméa sing out me fellow." But 

 Gaméa was a great man, so the people followed his directions and ail of them came. Gaméa 

 gave each man a tract of land, and they built houses there. The people held the Idcra ceremony, 

 and when it was ended they went and speared many dugong and made large gardens. Gaméa 

 said, „I stop hère this place, you me (we) no go fight him people. You make him plenty garden, 

 go spear him dugong. You me make him tdera, that's ail;" they did not want to hold the céré- 

 monies which bear on fighting. 



In the course of time the village became so hemmed in by the bush that the people 

 decided to shift it nearer to the shore, and they chose the new site at a small creek called Gänalai. 



At first Mawâta had been a fine place, but after the great men had died everything gradu- 

 ally changed for the worse. The people too became much weaker and smaller in stature than 

 their parents had been. When in former times the great men used to speak, their voice could be 

 heard a long way off, like the sound of a drum, and they could fight, spear dugong, and make 

 gardens Incomparably better than the present generation, who are duU and devoid of strength. 

 Earlier there were so many people that the beach hardly aftbrded room for ail, but nowadays 

 there are but few. So the people lament to think of the old times. 



Gaméa had also summoned the Türitüri people to come and live in the new place, and 

 after some délibération they ail came headed by their two leaders Küki and Sabäbi. Later on the 

 Mawâta and Türitüri people again separated, and much fighting took place between the two vil- 

 lages (cf. n:o 339). (Gaméa, Mawäta). 



A. The people of Old Mawâta were pesfered by mosquitoes, and Gaméa set eut to find them 

 a new home. He travelled first as far as Sdibai and Davâne, and with his brother Wosomo and some 

 other companions stayed some time on the latter Island. But one day Wôsomo and some others were 

 drowned when they went out to spear dugong, and after his brother's death Gaméa went back to 

 Sâibai. While he was staying there his sister, who had gone with him, was suspected of stealing some 

 coconuts belonging to another man, and a fight took place. Much disgusted Gaméa left Sdibai and 

 sailed eastward. Running short of food he landed at the present Mawäta. At firsl he intended to take 

 his stone club with him by tying it to his foot when wading ashore, in case the bushmen should attack 

 him, but his old lather persuaded him not to do so. Gaméa made friends with one of Ihc bushmen by 

 putting rings of ivnrnkara branches on the arms of the latter. On visiting the bushmen's village he took 

 some water in his mouth and squirted it out, saying, „I put name belong tliis place, Ari," and after 

 that it was called so (ef p. 14, Knrea). Gaméa returned to Old Mawäta and persuaded the people to 

 move över to the new place, and they arrived in groups of a few people at a time. (Annira, Mawäta). 



B. Gaméa came on shore at the present Mawäta through want of food. The épisode of his 

 landing without his stone club and his reception by the bushmen is told as in the first version. On 

 meeting the leader of the bushmen Gaméa unfastened his how-string and stuck the bow in the ground 



Tom. XLVII. 



