142 Gunnar Landtman. 



Ddpe and his wife, occupied with each other on shore, did not come lo Ihe rescue in time. While 

 bailing out the water the people were singing, 



„Demavio ttimo Viboro mére hähigo. — Bail out water, catch him boy belong me, Viboro 

 people." 



Onéa, the hunter, tried to pierce the dam with several tishes in turn and at last succeeded with one of 

 them. The people wailed after the catastrophe, 



„Nimo Vihoro gdnia ncmotoidumo Viboro mere båbigo. — Me fellow stand up wait drum belong 

 Viboro, wait boy belong Viboro." 

 The Iwo songs belong to the niogiini ceremony. (Nàmai, Mawdta). 



E. Mérave was „head man belong drum", and his drum when beaten called out his name, 

 „Mérave, Mérave, Mérave!"^^ A flood carried ofï the drum from Mcrave's place (Dàpe is not mentioned), 

 and it can still be heard in the Dibiri-örömo crying out, „Mérave, Mérave, Mérave!" (Nåtai, Ipisia). 



F. The people dammed the Bamu-oromo to catch fish, and the water flooded the bush. A 

 man who was out hunting had to save his dögs from being drowned by hanging them up in a tree 

 by means of strings round their bodies. He bored through the dam with a fish. A man, Begéredubu 

 (ef. no. 109), was carried by the torrent to V^äboda where he romained. He taught the people there 

 to build houses on piles, to plant gardens (before Ihey had ealen earth), and to dance. (Obüro, läsa). 



G. A man named Begerédubu was asked to help the people in bailing out the water, and just 

 as he was about to catch the drum a large female crab caught hold of his penis with its pincers. The 

 rush of the water carried him to Wäboda Island. The crab was still hanging on to his penis, which 

 had become very sore and swollen, and Begerédubu freed himself from the animal and threw it away. 

 It is after this adventure of Begerédubu that the Wäboda men who descend from him have a very 

 large penis. Begerédubu at flrst stayed inside a gàgoio tree, but after it feil down he built a house. 

 (Japia, Ipisia). 



NABEAMURO (ef Index), THE GREAT FIGHTER, AND HIS MARRIAGE WITH ANOTHER 

 MAN'S WIFE; MORIGIRO AND KEABURO (ef. Index). 



57. Siväre, a Mdubo man, had nine vvives. He was neglecting his first wife, and she 

 felt very hurt and angry. Once when she went to the bush Siväre followed her, but she said, 

 „What name you come look round me? You no sorry me at all. You got plenty woman. \o\x 

 no vvant come here, more better you go back." Siväre went back, and the woman set to work 

 alone; in the evening she returned with a bürden of bananas, sago, water, firewood, and thatching 

 leaves. 



Brooding revenge the first wife made a model crocodile and placing it in the Mäubo-tiiri 

 river said to it, „Siväre coine here, you catch him. That's no other man fast here, thats Siväre, 

 you catch him." She returned home and sat down on the gable verandah to watch. Sivnre donned 

 his war ornaments and seizing his weapons went on his way to another village. In the act of 

 wading across the river he was caught by the crocodile who pulled him under the water and took 

 him into a hole in the bottom. All the people yelled, „Siväre, alligator he catch him!" They 

 ran and told Gumäru, Sivâre's father, „Gumàru, you (your) boy, alligator catch him, Gumäru!" 

 and the people all wailed, Gumäru, Sivâre's vvives, and everybody eise. 



Tom. XLVII. 



