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you give me ripe banana, he close up fall down; what people he come behind me, teeth be- 

 long him fall down too all same. You spoil him teeth belong people. Suppose you give me 

 härd kaikai, he all right, teeth he stop long time too." He said, „I pickaninny belong ground, 

 I no all same you, I no been drink milk belong mother, I belong altogether people." Whatever 

 Sfdo did everyone since then does in the same way. At first people did not knovv of death, Sido 

 was the first man who died, and since his death all must die. 



Sôpuse took Sfdo to the village, and everybody remarked, „Oh, Siipuse he got good 

 hoy, what place he get him that boy?" After some time Sido asked Sôpuse, „Father you make 

 small bow and arrow belong me." Sopuse made him a bovv and arrovvs, and vvent with his wife 

 and the boy to the bush, ScSpuse in front, his wife behind, and .Sfdo between them. People 

 thought that Söpuse's wife was Sfdo's mother, for they did not knovv that he had sprung from 

 the ground. Sfdo shot a small lizard and showed it to Sopuse: „Father, that good for kaikai?" 

 The father said, „That no kaikai, you leave him, he brother belong you, you chuck him away 

 same place." Next the boy shot a rat and showed it to his father who said, „All right that, you 

 give him mother." He shot various reptiles and fish in a creek, and his father said, „Yes, that good 

 kaikai, every time you shoot like that." All three then vvent back to the village. Sfdo asked his 

 father and mother first about whatever he wanted to do, and they taught him everything.^ (Ndmai, 

 Mawàta). 



A. Sopuse, who had no wife, first tried to satisfy his désire by means of a hole in a tree 

 before he moulded a woman's figure in the ground, providing it with head, nose, eyes, limbs, etc. The 

 infant Sfdo walked about both above ground and underneath. In some vvay he obtained a bow and 

 arrows, and shot one of the animais mentioned in the first version. Sopuse, finding his footprints, kept 

 watch for him and seized him unawares; at sight of Sfdo's face he became aware of his origin, of which 

 he told the people. (Gibiima, Mawdta). 



B. Beginning as in the first version. Sopuse discovered the small boy and lay in wait for 

 him behind some banana trees, seizing him when he came near. Sfdo told him that he was his own 

 chiJd and was taken by him to the village. (Duàni, Mawâta). 



C. Sopuse formed a female figure of earth and had connection with it. After some time he 

 went away to anolher place, and one day during his absence a cripple, who always stayed in the vil- 

 lage, saw a boy come up from under the ground.^ The. boy had a small bow with which he shot 

 fish, afterwards he went back into the ground. Once the boy was seized by anolher man, who took 

 him home, but Sopuse on his return found out that he was his son and kept him. (Nàtai, Ipisia). 



D. Söpuse's relation to Sfdo's birth in the ground is told as in the previous versions. (Amiira, 

 Mawâta). 



SIDO'S MEETING WITH SAGÄRU AND THEIR MARRIAGE. 



22. One night when Sfdo went outside for a natural want i* he heard people beating the 

 drum at läsa. He did not knovv what a drum was and wondered, „What name (what kind of a 

 thing) he make noise? Sea he break him along läsa 1 think." Another night when Sfdo was 



Tom. XLIVI. 



