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continued their voyage, and between Saibai and Mäbuiag threw out some more heads which 

 became reefs. Kiiiamo said, „By and by man he come, catch him fish, dugong along reef." At 

 first he made the Numäru reef and then, throwing avvay more heads, said, „That reef he come 

 up, name belong Béka," and again, „That reef name belong Mârkai-mâdja." 



Finally Kdiamo arrived at Mäbuiag, still accompauied by the boy, His wrath had now 

 subsided; every Mäbuiag man slain by him was matched by a bushman killed in the same way 

 („no more sorry rnother"). He put all the remaining heads of the bushmen round the skulls of 

 the Mäbuiag people. A few Mäbuiag men still lived in the holes they had dug in the ground, 

 and Küiamo called out to them, „Finish now, you fellow come, no more fight now. You come 

 stop along beach, I go stop on top hill. I sorry people, no good I go sit down alongside you 

 people, I bad man. I been killed plenty Mäbuiag man, no can make friend, more better no stop 

 one place. You stop one end, I go stop on top, place name Gômu, I go stop one man (alone)." 



Küiamo went to live on top of the hill and took all the skulls with him, that of his 

 mother too. The skulls remained there a long time („me fellow been see head, tiitiire (trumpet 

 Shell) belong Küiamo"), and they looked like stones. »2 Küiamo is not dead, but dwells under- 

 neath the ground. Sometimes in the night he walks about on top of the hill, and the Mäbuiag 

 people can see him. He is not a ghost but Küiamo in person, for he went of himself into the 

 ground while alive. VVhen the people see the apparition, they know vvhat it forebodes: „Oh, 

 fight he come now, somebody come fight you me." 



The Mäbuiag people, following Küiamo's example, treat their dead in the same way as 

 he did his mother. They leave the body to decay till only the bones remain, and th*en take the 

 skull, decorating it as Küiamo did. The skulls are then kept in the houses close to where they sleep 

 („all same white man picture he keep him that head"). „Me fellow (the Mawata people) dig him 

 (the dead) ground, forget all about, that's all name belong dead man me keep him inside." 

 (Nämai, Mawäta). 



A. The beginning of the following version contains an épisode which seems rather loosely 

 added to the story o'' Küiamo. 



When Küiamo was a small boy, he used to spear flsh för his mother Tamagåni who cooked 

 them, and the two also collected fruit for food. One day Küiamo went away to see some other people 

 and was received by a man named Gandia in Bädu. The Bädu people did not know of the use of fire, 

 but roasted their food in the sun. At the end of Küiamo's right inde.x there was an ever burning 

 fire, 3" and when the people gave him ravv food to eat he taught them how to cook it. He put his 

 finger to a pièce of wood and it began to burn, which at first greatly frightened the people. 

 Being unused to cooked food they fainted when they first tasted it, but soon got to like it. " The 

 same épisode was repeated in Möa and other places where Küiamo went to teach the people the 

 use of fire. 



Tamagåni was making a mat, and every time Küiamo came home he carelessy trod on it, making 

 it dirty, and the woman scolded him and beat him with a stick. Küiamo became furious and purposely 

 went to soil the mat with his feet, for which he was heaten by his mother. One day he went to the 

 bush, dressed himself up in leaves as in the previous version, and running back to the village speared 

 his mother. He went and killed many people in the islands and New Guinea, fighting with a spear, 

 not with bow and arrows. At last he returned to Mäbuiag bringing with him the captured heads. 

 He sang, 



N:o 1. 



