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ed to Säibai where they remained with Meréva on the coast, and instead of the trumpet-shell, in 

 which Meréva used to sleep, they dug a hole in the ground to live in, covering it with a turtle-shell. 

 They altered and decorated the canoe they had brought from Mawåta. Meréva was taught to make sails 

 by a spirit who appeared to him in a dream. After that many canoës were brought from Mawåta to 

 Säibai, and to Mawåta they came from Kiwai. (Gaméa, Mawåta). 



B. Three brotliers living in Såibai, Budia, Piiipui, and Meréva, vvent to OId Mawåta to pro- 

 cure a canoe, using a coconut-shell to pass över the creeks. The explanation of the names of places 

 mentioned is the same as in either one of the above versions except Abere-miiba, which is said 

 to refer to the mythical woman Abére. The men were received at OId Mawåta by their sister, Ereu, 

 and returned to Såibai witli two canoës. (Vasårigi, Mawåta). 



C. Meréva, Nimo, and Piiipui are mentioned in rather an incohérent story about the fetching 

 of the first canoe. (Nörima, Mawåta). 



D. In Rep. Cambr. Anlliiop. E.\p. vol. v. 27, The First Man of Säibai. Miloal, the first man 

 on Säibai, slept every night in a hole in the ground, and at daytime he got inside a shell. One day 

 two men named Paipai and Nima came to him from the bush. They were on their way to Mawåta, 

 Miloal gave them a coconut, half the shell of which they used for passing över the Stretches of water 

 between the two places. 



KUIAMO OF MABUIAG (ef. Index). 



60. The Mäbuiag boys and girls used to play every day on the beach. Kiiiamo was 

 a small boy at that time, and his body was covered with bad sores. He had two names, Kiiiamo 

 and Âdikiiiamo. He used to make the other children cry, whipping both boys and girls, so that they 

 ran to their parents to complain. At sundown all went home to sleep, and in the morning they 

 again began to play, and Kiiiamo whipped them as before. The children's parents scolded him, 

 „What's the matter that boy all time good boy girl he whip him? All över he got boil, what 

 for mother father no chuck him avvay?" Kiiiamo's parents said, „Every time me learn (teach) 

 him, he no can listen good, every morning, every daytime, every afternoon me learn him, 

 he no hear." 



The boys were playing one day in small „half canoës" (cf. p. 9), and some of them 

 were standing in the bow looking out for fish. Küiamo wanted to be in the bow, and when the 

 others did not wish him to come there he capsized the canoe so that they all feil into the water. 

 Leaving the others to cry and bail out the water Kiiiamo went to anothcr canoe, and when he 

 was not allowed to stand in the bow, he capsized that too, and the boys and girls had to swim, 

 and all the fish were lost. The other children wept and cried out, „What name (why) you no 

 make canoe self all same me fellow, all time you humbug me fellow." Kiiiamo constantly 

 treated the other children in the same way. 



He jumped on shore and ran with his muddy feet right into the midst of the grown up 

 men who sat eating, and they shouted, „What name that boy he no can look out, too much 

 sand he fall down trom leg belong him, go all över kaikai. He no savy nothing, cranky alto- 



Tom. XLVII. 



