104 Gunnar Landtman. 



SIDO FOLLOWS SÄGÄRU TO DIBIRI AND IS KILLED BY MEURI. 



25. Sfdo made some small birds, kiokio and seria, of a very light wood, wdrakàra, care- 

 fuUy carving their heads, attaching feathers to their bodies, and painting them black and red. 

 When they were finished he said to them, „You (are) man, you go fly all över place, go look 

 him Sagaru. Suppose you find him, j-ou sit dov\n, look proper before you come back." And he 

 added, Kiokio bdbigo nigo märamu Sagäru siioi demoivögumo. — Kiokio, you go to your mother 

 Sagäru and come and give me word." The birds flevv away and finding Sagäru sat down near 

 her. She looked up: „Oh, he all same man!" The birds hopped right up to her, and she took 

 the v\hite dried leaf of a sepöre plant and tied it on to a tail-feather of one them as a token for 

 Sfdo, saying, „You go back along läsa, teil him Sido, Sagåru stop along Méuri. You show him 

 leaf, he savy he true." The birds flew back to läsa, and Sido asked them, „Where mother?" 

 „He stop along Méuri now, he vvife belong Méuri, you look mark belong leaf." 



Then Sido took his stone axe and felled a big tree, kiinimi, he eut off the top of it and 

 made a hole right through the trunk lengthwise. Taking his stone club, stone axe, bow, bündle 

 of arrows, and all his v\'ar ornaments as well as food he got inside the trunk which he had put 

 in the water, and „that thing he go now, good canoe." He reached Méuri's place, and at low 

 water the trunk became stranded. 



In the morning Sagäru got up and taking some ashes went outside in order to smear her hair 

 with them and make it tidy. After she had adorned herself she wanted to defecate, >* and climbed 

 on to the tree in which Sido was hiding, and he put his finger into her vuKa. Sagäru started and 

 called out, „What name (what is) that.?" „That me, Sido, I stop here. You me kaikai." Sagäru 

 went and prepared sago and divided the food into two paris, one for Méuri and one for Sido. 

 At sundown she brought the food to Sido who took it and afterwards had connection with her. 



In the night at high water Sido's tree was carried to Méuri's house, against which it was 

 tossed, nearly knocking it down. Méuri floated the trunk away and with the ebbing tide it grounded 

 on the same place as before. 



A cripple had been watching Sagaru when she brought food to Sido,^ and wondered, 

 „What name (why) he (she) go give kaikai? He give that tree. That finger belong man he go 

 inside. Man he kobori (cohabits with) that woman." In the morning the cripple went and told 

 Méuri, „Méuri, you come here. All time I watch that wood along beach, man he stop inside. 

 Sagåru give him kaikai, finger belong man he go along de (vulva) belong Sagäru, that man he 

 kobori him." Méuri got up, he eut a big bamboo and splitting it up made bow-strings for all 

 his people, telling them, „You me (we) go fight now." And Méuri put on all his war ornaments 

 and took his stone club. 



Now Sido's tree was still on dry land. Méuri went first, and his people came behind. 

 Drawing his bow he shot at the tree and called out angrily, „You come out, suppose you man, 

 I want fight you. All time you humbug vvife belong me." Sido came out and seizing his stone 

 club fought Méuri whom he hit in the back. Méuri feil down „gammon dead", and his younger 

 brother attacking Sido in revenge killed him on the spot with his stone club. Méuri soon got up 

 again and tried in vain to rouse Sido ; he was very angry with his brother and said, „What name 

 (why) you come humbug, kill him right awaj? Me two gammon fight, by and by me two 

 friand." Sagäru threw herself on Sido wailing, 



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