77?^ Folk-Tales af the Kiivai Papuans. 159 



Having climbed to the top of Davàne he looked out over New Guinea and saw the smoke from the 

 bushmen's villages. He went from place to place in New Guinea and the Islands and killed people 

 everywhere. Before that there had been no fighting, and Küiamo was the first man to teach the 

 people to make war. Returning to Mdbuiag he arranged the heads in rings round a coconut tree. 

 Küiamo went to live on top of a hill in Mäbuiag and died there. He was sorry for the death of 

 his mother; that is the reason why he fought everyone. Médi, Mawäta). 



G. In Re/>. Cambr. Anthrop. E\p. vol. v. pp. 67 sqq., The Sa^a of Kwoiam. Kwoiam sent 

 his maternai uncles, Koang and Togal, with a crew to get him some turtle shell. The crew stole the 

 water and were later on killed by Koang and Togal who transformed them into certain stars. One day 

 Togal picked the fruit of a knpar tree some of which he ate, throwing away the seeds. A woman 

 came to gather fruit from the tree and seeing the tooth-marks on some of them wondered who had 

 eaten them. On seeing Togai, she ran away, and he made a thunder-storm which killed her. ') The 

 two men brought some turtle Shells to Kwoiam who made two crescent-shaped ornaments which he 

 hung on his ehest .and upper lip. 



One day Kwoiam annoyed his mother who was working at a mat and she cursed him. He 

 killed her and afterwards cried over her. Then lie went away with his nephew Tomagani in order to 

 „pay for the death of his mother", and he attacked many people and secured a great number of heads. 

 Finally the two rerurned to Mabuiag. Kwoiam got into war with the Badu people who time alter time 

 came to fight him, but he repelled their attacks. At length the Moa people killed Tomagani and after 

 Kwoiam's throwing-stick had been broken, he retired to a hill and died. 



SESERE OF MABUIAG, THE FIRST HARPOONER OF DUGONG. 



61. There was once a boy named Sésere who lived alone at one end of Mabuiag calied 

 Ddbangäni, while his two married sisters and all the other people lived at the other end calied 

 Gömu. Sesere's parents who were dead, had left him a sweet potato garden, and he worked 

 there in the morning and then went to spear fish. On his return he cooked some of the fish 

 with a few potatoes and after his meal went to sleep. The next morning he again plànted sv\-eet 

 potatoes, and when the tide was running out went to spear fish. The other Mabuiag people 

 were also spearing fish, and his two sisters saw him from a distance and pitied him because he 

 lived by himself. Both Sésere and the other people returned home at the same time and prepared 

 their food, after which they ate and slept. The same happened again the next day. 



Sésere's two brothers-in-law only managed to catch a few small fish, and seeing from a 

 distance that the boy speared plenty of fish they thought to theniselves, „Oh, to-morrow you me 

 (we) go take him that fish." On the morrovv the boy again speared a long string of fish, but 

 the men did not get any. So they stole away from the other people and went to Sésere's place, 

 where they attacked him with sticks and carried off all his large fish, only leaving the small ones 

 behind. Returning to their wives they alleged that they had caught the fish themselves, but the women 

 did not believe them. „Before," they said, „you no been bring him big fish, all fime you bring 

 small fish. All time me see that boy he catch him big fish, me look big fish he jump along 

 spear, kick him f)ut water on top boy. I think you been take him fish from that boy." Sésere 



') These épisodes properly beloug to Tagai's storj-, cf. Tales of the Stars, no. 451. 

 N:o 1. 



