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-Gunnar Landtman. 



a bird's footprints. Låter on she assumed the claws of a crab, then the feet of a kangaroo, then 

 of a cassowary and then of a pig, the tracks of which were all meant to mislead Sido, finally 

 she resunied her human feet. 



In the morning Sido following in pursuit of Sagäru found Keiiburo and his companions 

 and asked them, „You fellow heen see Sagåru?" But they answered, „No, me fellow no been 

 see him." A cripple, however, had watched the vvhole proceeding,^ and after Sido had made 

 friends vvith him he said, „3i'do, 1 show you road where Sagåru he been 

 go. You look that tree, Sagåru heen go alongside, close up (just now) he 

 heen go." So Sido hurried on. 



A big tree in the bush, called näbea, when Sagåru appeared shrank to 

 quite a small size. She was tired and sat down on the tree to rest, and as 

 she did so the ndbea inserted a twig into her vulva. At the sanje time the 

 tree reared itself high up nearly to the sky, lifting up the terrified Sagåru. ^^ 

 She thought of Sido and cried, „Oh, bad wood 1 find him now." 



Sido arrived at the place. There was a water-hole beneath the tree, 

 and looking into it he saw Sagâru's retlection in the water. Taking it lo 

 he Sagåru in the neshj^" he jumped into the water head first and broke the 

 bridge of his nose against a härd pièce of wood. He said, „Oh, I got blood 

 now. He (Sagåru) bad woman, he wild for koböri (cohabitation), that's why 

 he come here. He spoil my nose." 



Sagåru from the top of the tree bade him, „You go take stone axe, 

 eut him tree." Sido ran and fetched stone axes. All the pièces of wood 

 and bark which he eut off turned into fishes, „he walk about all same pro- 

 per fish". Sagåru looked: „Oh, close up he fall down 

 that tree." She called out to Sido, „You leave him 

 stone axe, go take fire, you put him stone axe along 

 fire, behind you put him along water, belong make 

 him sharp proper." Sido ran to fetch a fire-stick and 

 à I «JBk- lighted a fire, he hcated the stone axe in the fire and 



jA |L afterwards put it in the water. Having again fastened 



.«^MfcJBJI^^ the blade to the handle he resumed cutting, hut the axe 



broke at the first blow. All the axes split in the same 

 way, „Sagåru make him fool man belong him." When 

 all his axes were thus spoilt Sido thought, „More better 

 I sing out (summon) now altogether wind." He called 

 up first the hie, west wind: 



„Hie susHoro näbea waubäiro ivdubai utibea näbea waubäiro'. — W^est wind you come 

 and throw över näbea/'' 

 Next he summoned the nigori, east wind: 



„Nigöri sustior o näbea ivaubäiro wäubat näbea näbea zvaubäirof" 

 In the same he way invoked the liro, south-east wind, and manibu, north wind. The winds 

 caused the tree to break from the various quarters in turn, until it feil down. Sagåru was hurled 



Tom. XLVU 



Sagåru in the ndbea tree. Below to the right 



are Sido's broken stone axe and one intact. 



Drawn by Nämai of Mawata. 



