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he had connection with her. He had a verv large pénis as all the food eaten by him had passed 

 down into it, taro, yams, and every kind of fruit. In the act Sido vvithdrevv his penls flinging 

 out the semen al! over the ground, and ail sorts of vegetahles and fruit sprang up, taro, sweet 

 potatoes, bananas, coconuts, growing ail over Adiri, „no got no bushes, that's ail kaikai"." Si'do 

 summoned the east wind, north west wind, west wind, and south-east wind, and the leaves rustled 

 in the various winds, and some fruit feil down. The three men in the house woke up: „Oh, 

 what name (what thing is) that.' Before me no been hear that noise."* Sido and Gögu pretended 

 to be asleep. „he gammon talk like that (snöre)", but the three men talked on and on through 

 the night: ,, Adiri he other kind now." 



In the morning they all got up. The three men said, „What name that thing here make 

 noise, what name that thing here come up — meaning sweet potato — me no been see before.'" 

 and Gdgu said, „.Sido been make him all kaikai from my body, from me." Sido told the three 

 men, „You come, I show you." He pulled up taro and sweet potatoes and brought sugar-cane 

 and coconuts, putting down everything at the fire-place where he lighted a big fire. He explained 

 their use to the three men, „That taro here, that sweet potato here, you me kaikai that one." 

 He cooked the food on the fire and gave some to the men. They ate and „that hot kaikai he 

 go inside. three man he dead, he no .savy that kaikai." '^ When they had recovered, .Sido told 

 them, „By and by you savy that kaikai. you kaikai all time, that kaikai belong you fellow, you 

 me stop here." 



So they all lived together. Sido made a stone axe and eut a number of posts, after 

 which he erected a house as long as the distance from Mawàta to Däru. When the house was 

 finished he hung up a gope, shield-like carved board which the natives hang up at the gables of 

 their houses to avert sickness. The three men asked him, „What good you make him house, 

 he no got no people here, where people go stop.'" Sido said, „By and by, you stop quiet." Sido 

 decorated the gope nicely and made it swing round a few times, after which he vvenl into the 

 house and walked quickly right through it till he reached the other end. He swung the gope 

 round in order to make people die, „he sing out (summoned) people he come". Adiri and Dirivo 

 each lived at one end of the house and Sopiima in the middle, Sido was „all same master". 

 (Gaméa, Mawäta). 



A. In Adiri there lived a man also called Adiri, together wIth his daughter Dirivo (the same 

 narrator in anolher version gave the mame of the man as Nemogu). Sido found them as in the pre- 

 vious version, and after having had connection with the girl caused, through his semen, all plants and 

 trees to grow; he also created a house by the same method. Then Adiri said to Sido, „I stop one end 

 belong house, you stop other end where people he come. Suppose man he gammon dead, urio (soul) 

 he see you, go back, he life again. Suppose man he dead altogether, you send him urio along me 

 where I stop." Sido said, „I make fire, I make garden for people, plenty people come behind." (Nå- 

 mai, Mawàta). 



B. Sido met in Adiri a man of the same name, also Sopüma and the girl; according to another 

 version by the same narrator there were only Sopüma and the daughter. His penis, coniaining various 

 garden products, was very large, and Sopüma was at first afraid to give him the daughter lest she 

 should be killed. Sido planted the garden in the same way as above, and „house he make himself 



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