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vvhere he vvoke up (ef. no. 64). All his clansmen weie crj'ing round him but ceased their wail- 

 ing when Åsåi came to himself. „What name (vvhat is it) you make him?" he asked, and they 

 answered, „You been die yesterday." And Åsåi said, „You no ask me about devil-place, that 

 lime I come all right I teil you." (Gaméa, Mavvåta). 



64. There was a Mavväta woman called Amära vvho had been to Adi'ri and subsequently 

 returned to life. Her husband Däua had died before her. When she came to Adiri she savv two 

 heavy posts like iron, one on each side of the vvay, and they were constantly clashing together 

 thus preventing anybody from going in (ef. no. 63). But when Amära came near, the posts 

 lifted themselves up, enabling her to pass, and when she was through, they began banging together 

 again. She saw a great crowd of spirits at Adi'ri, and her husband Baua was there among the 

 others. Some boys playing on the beach called out to the leaders, „You fellovv come, one woman 

 here, you come make out who belong that woman." The leaders came: „Oh, that Amära." 

 Bâua said, „Oh, that my wife he come," and he bade her, „You no come close to where 

 devil (spirits) he stop, you stand up long way, I go ask big man belong this place." („I think 

 Sido (ef. no. 43) that," the narrator interpolated). Amära waited, and Bâua went to ask the 

 leader, „What you say.? I take him woman belong me? I send him back?" The leader came 

 to see her and said, „One day you keep him, night-time he go back." 



Bâua said to the people, „I think more better you dress up, make dance belong that 

 woman." The people decked themselves with ornaments and held a dance, and the row of 

 dancers, two and two together, was long enough to reach from Mawâta to the Gesovamiiba point 

 (about a mile). Bâua stood beside his wife while the people were dancing. Just before sunset 

 he said to her, „I make you go back. You no time (your time is not) finish yet, you life yet. 

 You look out (after) place belong dead man (the burying ground) good. You teil him all Mawâta 

 man he look out good too." 



At Adi'ri there were all kinds of wonderful food, some red, some blue, and some white, 

 there were coconuts, sugar-cane, bananas, taro, and other garden produce, like those of ordinary 

 people. Bäua said, „I no give you kaikai, suppose I give, you dead right up, you no go back. 

 More better I no give you kaikai." When her time was up he told her, „You turn that way," 

 making her face her home. He hit her on the back,and at the same moment the two bars sepa- 

 rated, and she flew right between them to her own place (cf. no. 63). Her spirit entered her 

 bod}', and the woman woke up. The people said to her, „Oh, you been dead long time, me 

 fellow cry." „Good thing you no been dig me along burying ground," she said. „\'üu fellow 

 give me water, give me kaikai, that time I finish kaikai, I yarn along j'ou." Then she told the 

 people vvhat she had seen at the place of the dead. „That place you me (we) stop," she said, 

 „that bad place, you me take firewood, water, catch fish, make garden. Devil (spirit) place no 

 ail same. People he stop, no look round, everything come self, kaikai come self, garden make 

 himself, plenty coconut plant himself, water, fish he come self. That's ail people kaikai." And 

 she kept on teliing the people about Adfri, „Sweet potato he light, taro he light, everything he 

 light. Banana he three fathom long, every banana three fathom — oh!" The woman recovered 

 and spent her fime in teliing the people of Adiri. (Gaméa, Mawâta). 



Tom. XLVII. 



