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Gunnar Landtman. 



ïwo (/();•/ head-dresses made of white feathers. 



make the enemy „cranky" beforehand. 

 By turning his head round he caused a 

 strong wind with his döri, thereby break- 

 ing the masts of the canoës, ** and the 

 people in confusion hit each other every 

 time they threw their spears. ^" Thus the 

 crews of all the canoës perished. Then 

 the next column came out, and the men 

 incited each other to fight by shouting, 

 „Eh, eh, come on, you me (we) kill him!" 

 But Sésere moved his head and Struck 

 out with his hands and feet, and all the 

 men feil down dead of themselves. The 

 same happened with the last contin- 

 gent. Sésere eut off the heads, arrang- 

 ing them in circles like coconuts. 

 The kukûra man, ^ who had kept behind the others, ran away and told the rest, „All 

 man he dead, nobody come back, me one man (alone) he come." He went to Bddu, summoning 

 the people there to come and fight Sésere. „How mach man?" the Bädu people asked him, and 

 he said, „He one man." „Oh, what name you fright?" the Bädu men said, „to-morrow I come 

 kill him." ** The Bådu warriors made themselves ready and the next day they sailed över to Mabuiag, 

 where the women gave them food. „Oh, that gammon," the Bädu people said, „to-morrow I go 

 kill that man." Having slept during the night they proceeded to Sésere's place, some in their 

 canoës and the others forming three columns on shore. Sésere, as before, lay in wait among the 

 bones of his refuse heap. When thej' came near, he stood up and moved his head and limbs, 

 and the canoës were wrecked and the people feil down dead; all three columns were annihi- 

 lated in this way, and Sésere eut off the heads of the Bädu men. 



The kukûra man, who had kept in the rear and escaped, went to fetch the M6a people 

 to fight. When they heard that their enemy was one man single-handed, they said, „Oh, he no 

 can kill people, he no big man. To-morrow I go put him stone club along head, smash him 

 altogether." They came to Badu and thence to Mäbuiag. The enerpy advanced in six Unes to- 

 wards Sésere, who hid himself in his refuse heap with flies and worms covering his body. The 

 people all kept on throwing their spears at him, and at last he got up and destroj'ed them all in 

 the same way as before, fighting with his head and limbs. On his throwing a single spear a 

 whole column of the enemy would fall. Of all the people the kuki'ira man alone returned. 



He did not give in but brought the Ita people over to fight Sésere. They advanced in 

 seven lines. After Sésere had killed the people in the canoës, the others closed with him. When 

 he had finished all his spears he ran away into the bush, and in the shape of a small bird called 

 kekesio (in Måbuiag sésere) took refuge in a trumpet-shell. All the people were looking for him, 

 and the kukûra man saw that the bird had gone into the shell. They started to break the shell, 

 and one man exclaimed, „Oh, he got feather here come out, I kill iiim." But the bird escaped 

 and alighted on the head of a man. Another man calling out to him, „You no mo\'e, you stand 



Tom. XLVII. 



