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echo when people stamp upon it. The coconut-shell then floated them from Päho över the 

 western arm of the river. 



Püipui's foot sank into the mud when he jumped on shore, and he said, „What name 

 (what is it) fast along my leg?" „That daiim (mud)," Nimo answered, and they called the place 

 Dåmu-rukävi. They found a creek with brackish water, which in .Säibai is called giigi, and named 

 the creek Gùgi-kàsa. There was an Island not far away, which on account of its situation they 

 called Mâru-kâva, the meaning of màru being given as „outside". 



They went on to Àugaro-mûba (no explanation), and from there to Möigi-pagariipa, so 

 called by them from the sea-weed, pagdru, which had floated about and cnllected there. The same 

 place was also called Möigi-Kagarüpa for the reason, it is said, that from there one can see Ka- 

 garu, a point in Säibai. The next place was Bùru-pâgadjina, so called because there one of the 

 points came off the men's fish-spear {bilru means „empty" or „wanting"). A tree was floating in 

 an inlet near by, and as the younger brother hurt his hand on a twig (ktira) of the tree, they 

 called the creek Küra-kasa. At Bi'natüri the bone point (kimiisu) of an arrow feil off, and the two 

 Säibai men called the creek Imüsu-käsa, the right name would have been Kimüsü-käsa, but the 

 two men „he miss". 



Passing over the creek in the coconut-shell they proceeded to Äbere-müba, „the large 

 point" (dbére = large). On the other side was the Öriömu river and Dâru Island, which the „out- 

 side" people call Yäru. 



Ahi'na, the brother-in-law of the two men was on the hank of the Ôriômu fishing, when 

 they came across the river in their coconut-shell. Éreu, their sister, called out, „Oh, my two 

 brother you corne! What name (in vvhat kind of a) canoë you corne?" „Oh," they answered, 

 not wanting to tell her about their coconut-shell, „me walk along shore." The woman went to 

 fetch Ahi'na, and in the meantime a man named Damâbe entertained the two visitors. He pre- 

 pared gdmoda and invited Pûipui to drink, but he did not know vvhat it was, and asked, „What 

 name (kind of a) drink? me no savy." „You drink," Damâbe explained, „that good thing, belong 

 sleep proper." Damâbe drank first and after him Pûipui and Ni'mo, saying, „That good thing." 



When Ahi'na arrived, he asked the Säibai men, „Where canoë?" „Me got niikn (coconut- 

 shell) hère," they answered, „me come along this one." Ahi'na felt sorry for them and said to 

 his wife, „Two canoë hère, you give him along two fellow, another one one, another one one." 

 He thought to himself, „That two man he cniapora (brother-in-law) belong me, 1 no can talk, let 

 sister belong him talk." PZreu gave them each a canoë, and according to custom provided the 

 canoës with food. Her husband was thinking to himself, „No good one man pull one canoë, 

 one man pull one canoë, big sea he come; more better two fellow stop together." So he said 

 to his wife, „You tell him two brother, he take out outrigger belong one canoë, make fast two 

 canoë close to, two fellow pull along one place." Each canoë had one outrigger, but they re- 

 moved one of thèse and secured the canoës to each other by means of a cross-piece at each end. 



The two brothers left Old Mawäta and returned homewards. Their sister wailed over 

 them and they over her. They summoned a fair wind to carry them along. On their way they 

 landed at Mäbudaväne to procure sage. 



Meréva had been waiting for them all the v\hile, wondering, „What time my two pdna 

 (friend) he come?" At last they arrived and everybody was glad, for they belonged, as It were, 



Tom. XLVn. 



