154 Gunnar Landtman. 



At the thought of his mother Küiamo said, „Poor mother, I sorry now. I been kill you 

 first time, I pay you now. Every place I go clear him now, I go kill all place." In the morning 

 he went to the other side of Måbuiag, where the surviving people had taken refuge, some hiding 

 themselves among the rocks, others digging holes in the ground. Küiamo killed everyone he came 

 across, beating about the whole Island. The people fled before him in terror, „no sleep, no kaikai, 

 pigeon he make noise, wind he make noise, some bushes he make noise along leaf — 

 people he fright, he run away for nothing." Kiiiamo carried all the captured heads to the place 

 where he had left the others. He slept and dränk water but did not wash the blood from 

 his hands. 



Next morning he started the chase again. He did not eat, „he cranky inside". The few 

 survivors tried to soften his wrath, shouting to him from a distance, „Küiamo, finish now; no 

 more people!" He would not listen, but mercilessly killed those who had called out to him. 

 He searched for more victims everywhere, „stone-hoie-people he kiU him, small bushes he look 

 rourtd — kill him." Only those who had dug holes to hide in remained undetected, they had 

 covered their tracks with dry leaves, and Küiamo walked right över these without noticing anything. 



He thought that he had killed all the Måbuiag people and lighted a fire-signal to summon 

 the Bådu people. The Bddu men thought, „Måbuiag man sing out," and some of them went över to 

 Måbuiag and vvere killed by Küiamo. Next he lighted two fires, and the Bådu people thought, 

 „He sing out me fellow again, one fire belong them fellow yesterday, one fire belong me fellow." 

 Many Bädu men and women started for Måbuiag telling the rest, „Me fellow make three fire, 

 that sing out you people you come. Me no make fire, that to-morrow me come back." A fair 

 wind brought the canoës to Måbuiag. Seeing them coming Küiamo donned his war accoutrements 

 and concealed himself at the place where all the heads were, swarms of flies covering him. ** 

 The Bådu people approached and looked round: „Where altogether people he stop, me no look no 

 man?" When they landed Küiamo got up and killed all the people of each canoe in turn. He 

 eut off the heads and placed them in a ring round the others, himself sleeping alongside. The 

 next time he lighted three fires, and the Bådu men said, „Oh, he want me go, he got three fire 

 now, he sing out you me now. To-morrow you me go again." In the morning they set sail, 

 men, women, and children. One canoe was delayed and came on behind the others — „all same 

 pigeon he fly first time." This last canoe drifted with the tide to another point and was over- 

 looked by Küiamo when he began to fight. The people in this canoe looked: „What's the matter 

 that man on top canoe, all people he fight him (he fights all the people), all people along water. 

 He go other canoe, people there jump along water, that man he on top canoe. Man there he 

 fall down, man there he fall down, that man he fight him, jump along other canoe. I think that him, 

 same man, Küiamo, every time he fight people, man he yarn about, I think him." Küiamo at 

 last caught sight of the canoe: „Oh, I miss that canoe, people he find me out now," and he 

 shrugged his Shoulders. He came, running towards the canoe, but the people set sail, caught 

 the wind, and escaped back to Bådu. They were received by some men who eagerly came right- 

 out into the water and by others on the shore, and the fugitives said, „Oh, Küiamo been kill him 

 all canoe, he make fire, make fool you me. Tide take him canoe go other end, me run away." 

 All the Bådu men and women wailed, „My good husband, brother, he dead now." 



Küiamo made a ring of young coconut leaves round the heads, from some of which 



Tom. XLVII. 



