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the niorning the girl came alone to the bush and found the dead pig. „Who kill that pig along- 

 side my sago?" she vvondered. „Man he no got no track, dog he no got no track." Then Me- 

 séde came out and addressed the girl, „Oh, Di'biri-Sagâru!" The girl said, „Who you?" „Me 

 there, Meséde." And he asked her, „You got hushand?" „No, I stop no man; mother, me two 

 fellow stop, all time kaikai bad fruit, no man give him kaikai." Meséde did not say any- 

 thing but he was sorry for the girl. He eut up the pig and gave her some méat, and she brough 

 it to her mother. The other people, seeing the nieat, asked them, „Who belong that pig, no man 

 been kill him' I think tvvo fellow been steal that pig." The girl said, „No, 1 no been see some- 

 body track alongside, I don't know, 1 think he dead .seif," — she did not want the others to 

 know ahout Meséde. The people seized and carried off the meat belonging to the two women, 

 „that's all smell he stop along finger belong two fellow". 



Another day Meséde killed several pigs, cutting them up for the girl, and she brought 

 the meat to her mother, saying, „Some man there he stop, give me pig, name belong Mesede." 

 The mother said, „That good man, he husband belong you fellow." The people again seized the 

 meat, thinking that their dogs had killed the pigs. 



The mother bade the girl, „^'ou go eut that tree, Mesede he come out, stop this place, 

 no good people humbug me two all time." The girl took her stone axe and went to the tree, 

 calling out to Meséde, „You go other side, I eut him this side." She felied the tree, and Meséde 

 came out and asked the girl, „What for you eut him that ca?"** Di'biri-Sagaru said, „Mother, 

 me two fellow, every time people come pull him that pig you been give me all time." Meséde 

 was very dirty from living inside the tree, so the girl washed him in a creek and rubbed his 

 body with a lotion of coconut-oil and sweet-scented plants. She took off her gra.ss skirt, and they 

 had connection close to the creek. He then hid his bow in her \ulva. ^'' Dibiri-Sagäru rolled 

 Meséde up in a mat, making him quite small, and carried him home in a basket, ^s She took 

 another bow and placed it close to him, but the real one was hidden in her vulva. This is the 

 reason why hunters still prépare their bows with „medicine" from the vulva of their vvives before 

 they go out shooting. 



On reaching home Di'biri-Sagâru made an enclosure of mats for herseif and Meséde. He 

 resumed his proper size, and they were welcomed by her mother. The people came home, but 

 nobody knew that Meséde was there. They distributed food, but nobody gave Di'biri-Sagâru or 

 her mother anything, and Meséde felt „no good inside" on seeing how they were treated by the 

 others. 



When in the morning the people went out to defecate, i* a flock of hornbills came flying 

 by, and the men called for their bows and arrows: „Where bow-arrow, where bow-arrow, shoot !" 

 Meséde called Di'biri-Sagâru and took out his bow from her vulva. There v\as a hole in the roof 

 of the house över which the birds were flying, and when Meséde sent off his arrovv, a fire burst 

 out, there was a loud report, and all the hornbills dropped dead. Some of the people fainted in 

 terror, and the others shouted, „Oh, what name (what is) that, me no been hear before!" Meséde 

 replaced the wonderful bow in Dibiri-Sagârus's vulva, and she pulled avvay the mats and showed 

 him to the people saying, „My man here." They all looked at him in surprise: „Oh, good man!" 

 Some of the men greeted him saying, „Oh, you my pana (friend)," others said, „You my father." 

 Dibiri-Sagaru thought, „Oh, yes! before you give no fish, pig along me fellow. This time — who 

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