The Folk-Tales of titc Knvai Papuans. 127 



her a pig, and the animal took fright, swam ashore, and ran away into the hush. The woman 

 was sorry to have lost her pig. It remained in Knvai; before there had been no pigs in that 

 Island. 



Keäburo vvent on shore, and Abére proceeded on her way. The rocking of the canoe 

 had brought about such a high sea that she dared not round Kivvai. Instead she produced her 

 digging stick, vvhich she used to carry inside her bell}', and with it eut n creek right through 

 the Island, and thls passage is still callcd Abére-oromo. On the other side of Kivvai she 

 met Näbeamuro (ef. no. 57) and M(')rigiro (ef. no. 57) and asked them, „Vou no been go 

 Wäboda?" „Me tvvo no been go Wäboda, me been hear drum from Wdboda, people make dance." 

 Abére was very angry and paddled on. Arriving at Waboda she asked some children who were 

 swimming close to the shore, ,,Vou been make dance.'" ,,^'es," they said, „me been make dance 

 last night finish." In great urath she took out her digging stick and said to the people, „I been 

 speak, you no make dance, you wait for me, I go take thing belong dance." She attacked them 

 with her digging stick and killed them all, except the girls, and wherever the stick fell, a creek 

 was made. That is why there are so many creeks In Waboda Island. .Abére adopted the girls, 

 saying to them, „Vou come alongside me, you m\' girl." They left the old village and built a 

 new house in another place, li\ing bj' themselves wlthout any man. (.Saküma, Ipisia). 



A. Abére went from Waboda to Ddru to fetch shell ornaments, anJ the people held a dance 

 wlthout waiting for her return. When she came back they tied before her. Abére pursued them to several 

 places, and at last the people returned to Wdboda. Abére went to live with a man named Geùva at 

 Imowiamüba. (Obiiro, låsa). 



B. Abére came from Dibiri to Lisa where Keäburo iived. She was received by him, and he 

 forced her to have connection with him, and meanwhile her pig ran away. Abére and Keäburo made 

 a house and garden in the bush. (Japia, Ipisia). 



C. Keäburo, travelling with his wife from läsa to Gibu, had connection with her in the canoe. 

 The rocking of the craft caused a heavy sea, and when Keäburo afierwards washed liimself in the water, 

 it became very dirty from the semen. Since then there has been a rough sea and muddy water near 

 Kiwai. (Gaméa, Mawäta). 



D. A fragmentary tale relates how the Ipisia people once went to läsa and a certain man and 

 woman gave rise to the waves on the sea by having connection in their canoe. (Gabia, Ipisia). 



47. Abére, who Iived In Wåboda, had a boy called Gadi'va. He used to play close to 

 the creek, and Abére warned him, „No good you go close to, by and by alligator catch you." 

 Once vvhile Abére and her daughters were in the bush, Gadiva, when playing on the bank oi 

 the creek, was taken by a crocodile which dragged him into the water. Abére, in the act of 

 pounding sago, hit her food with the pounding stick, causing blood to flow. „Ei!" she exclaimed 

 „what name that, I no been make like that before. 1 think something wrong outslde (on the 

 beach), alligator catch him Gadiva — something." She ran home, and Sene, Abéma, Scme, Èél, 

 and the other girls ran with her, all crying, „Uö. alligator been catch him Gadivd-a!" They went 

 to the ri\er hut coukl not see the boy as the water was very turbid. 

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