The Folk-Tales of the Kiwai Papuans. 151 



to the same family. They sat dov\-n together, and talked and talked, and the food which Ninio 

 and Püipui had brought with them was carried on shore, and the tvvo canoës were unfastened from 

 each other. 



Shortly afterwards tvvo Mäbuiag men, Kupädo and Moiwüsa arrived in Säibai. They had 

 found some thatching floating towards their island, and noticing that the leaves had been slit by 

 some people unknovvn to them they set out to look for them. >-) Their canoe was a solid trunk 

 with two outriggers. They were received by the Säibai people who asked them, „What road (in 

 what way) you come?" „Wood there," they said, pointing at their craft, „me sit down on top, 

 sea he take me." 



Seeing the two canoës which Nfmo and Pdipui had brought from Mawäta, the Mäbuiag 

 men thought, „More hetter you me (we) take him one canoe." Nimo said to the others, „That 

 one canoe, Kupddo, Moiwösa I give him; one canoe me three man keep him along Säibai." The 

 two Mäbuiag men were very pleased and said in their language, „IVdkai mina si. — Thatgood," 

 and the others said, JVäkai mina si." 



Kupädo and Moiwösa returned to Mäbuiag in their new canoe, and there they reconstructed 

 the craft, providing it with a wash-strake on both sides, two outriggers, and a proper bow and 

 Stern; they also ornamented the whole canoe beautifuUy, and their wives made mat-sails for it. 

 When it was ready, the two men sailed in it to Bädu. The people there were very anxious to 

 have a similar canoe and asked the two men to get them one, putting down many things by 

 way of payment, arm-shells, stone axes, harpoon handles, and trumpet-shells. From Badu the 

 ■two Mäbuiag men vvent to Miia, and there too the people gave them many things in order that 

 they should procure them a canoe. Kupädo and Moiwösa returned to Mäbuiag, and another day 

 they sailed to Daväne and thence to Säibai. 



They taught the Säibai people to make ropes of coconut-fibre and to lit out their canoës 

 like their own. They also paid över the things given them by the Bädu and Möa people for 

 another canoe; and this new canoe henceforth belonged to Mäbuig, Bädu, and iMöa in common 

 and was kept at each place in turn. 



Ever since then canoës are traded from Mawäta to Säibai, and thence to Mäbuiag, Bädu, 

 and Möa, and e\en farther still to Ita (Green island) and Mùrilâgo (Thursday island). The payment 

 for the canoës travels in the opposite direction, from Säibai to Mawäta and thence to Katatai 

 (Giidjira), Pärrima, Kiwai, and lastly to Wäboda which is noted for making canoës. 



Nimo and Püipui did not go back to Åita in the bush but remained with Meréva on the 

 coast. Their sister Sagäru was left in the bush and together with some other people founded a 

 village there. (Nämai, Mawäta). 



A. Miréva. Nimo, and Piiipui met exactly as in the previous version. The latter two went 

 to Mawäta to buy a canoe and used a coconut-shell to pass över the reaches of water which they 

 met with. The names of some of the places differ somewhat from those in the first version. A point 

 (gifiju) where the men saw a pig (ö//at) was called by them Biiai-gfdju. The island Sapuro-kdva is 

 said to be named after certain white birds. The name Augaro-gidju or Augaro-muba refers to the rocks 

 there. A Mawåta man, Börombüro, gave Nimo and Püipui his canoe in exchange for a zväpo (harpoon 

 handle). The people were taught by the Säibai men the right kind of îvàpo to use, previously they 

 had only had an ordinary pole with a hole at one end for the harpoon-head. Nimo and Püipui return- 

 N:o 1. 



