The Folk-Tales of the Kiivai Papuans. 99 



fellow married novv," and he made paynient for Sagaru. Her father replied, „I no can keep my 

 girl, Sido he take him, he (she) belong this place novv." But Söpuse said, „No, two fellow he 

 no can stop this place, too much mud this place, two fellow no can walk about. More better 

 you take two fellow along läsa, he good sand-beach. By and by boy belong me come look out 

 me, go back again." Sido, Sagaru, and her father went back to läsa, and Söpuse and his wife 

 remained at Uiio. (Nämai, Mawata). . 



A. Sido heard the sound of drunis from läsa, where the people were dancing, and was toid by 

 Söpuse what it was. He asked his father for a drum, and Söpuse made him one; first he eut even 

 both ends of a suitable pièce of wood, then burned a hole lengthwise through it by means of charcoal 

 which he kept alive by blowing upon it through a pipe, lastly he shaped the outside form of the drum 

 and attached the skin at one end, he also applied „medicine" to the drum. Sido wanted to go to läsa 

 and on Sopuse's advice climbed a very high ktinia, a kind of a palm, which Söpuse caused to bend 

 över all the way to the long-house at låsa, where Sido got down, securing the top of the kiinia to a 

 post by means of his navel-cord.'' When Sido beat his drum it called out, Sagaru, Sagaru, orohoa, ori- 

 höa ! — Sagaru, get up and dance!" Sido and Sagaru met underneath the house as in the previous 

 version. They arranged to go together to Uiio in the morning, but a man named Méuri, who also 

 wanted Sagaru, eut the navel-cord so that the kiinia straightened itself up and went back to Uiio with- 

 out them. Sido's „ladder" having thus disappeared, he and Sagaru walked to Uöo along the road. 

 Méuri in anger went away and transformed himself into a certain tree, luibca. Sagàru's mother and 

 father followed the runaway pair to Uüo, where they wanted to fight Sido's people and claim payment 

 for their daughter. An agreement was made, but as Söpuse had no daughter to give in e.xchange for 

 Sagaru, they decided that Sido and she should go and live with her father at låsa. (Dudni, Mawdta). 



B. Sido heard the drums from låsa and on asking his father about it was told that the hiliore 

 (mysterious heings, ef. no. 131) caused the noise, and his father warned him not to go there, „You no go, that 

 belong kill man." Sido went nevertheless, and found the låsa people dancing in order to find out 

 which man Sagaru preferred. He saw four men, Demagöburo, Esariburo, Sogöpe, and Eregimini, who 

 all liked Sagaru and danced for her, „all he play outside, laugh, all he play, all he kick." Sido returned 

 to UÜO and reproached his parents for having deceived him. Afterwards he went several times to 

 Idsa: he climbed a ki/riia, and made it rise up very high and bend över till it reached läsa where he 

 tied it up. Learning that Sagaru did not favour anybody, Sido's parents the ne.xt time gave him „medi- 

 cine", and when he again danced, his drum sang out, „Sagaru, Sagaru!'' Sagaru liked him and be- 

 came his wife. (Gibüma, Mawåta). 



C. Sido heard the drums from låsa, and when he wanted to go thither his father made him 

 a drum to which he applied „medicine", also rubbing Sidos's body with some. Outside the long- 

 house at låsa Sido met a cripple, who took him into his house and gave him food. The eripple's son 

 became Sido's pàtia, friend, and they went together into the men's house. Sido beat his drum and 

 called out at the same time, „Sagaru, Sagaru!" While dancing he caused Sagàru's nose-stick to fall 

 out and met her underneath the house. In the morning she followed him to Udo, where he left her 

 outside the house, while he went in and asked his parents to bring her in, which they did. Sagàru's 

 people followed Sido's tracks to Uiio, where they began to fight. When the contest was över Sido's 

 parents gave a girl, löubo, to Sagàrus's parents in payment for Sagdru. The girl was taken to Idsa 

 and given to Sagàru's brother, and she prepared him some food in token of her consent to marry him. 

 (Tåmetdme, Ipisia). 



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