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After a while Davôto sent somebody to fetch him back, saying, „Me been fight that man 

 finish." Bfri went in and stayed the vvhole time close to Davôto lest someone should attack him. 

 He noticed that there were numbers of fovvls in the house. In the morning Davöto gave him 

 beautiful presents and showed him the road home: „You no go that big road, you go small road 

 there. You look — house belong you there." Bfri went along the narrow path, and just as he 

 reached his house he woke up. He looked for the fine presents he had received, feeling round 

 himself on the floor. „I say," he exclaimed, „where that thing I been see last night?" „What 

 name (what is it) you look round?" his wife asked him, and he answered angrily, „Oh, you no 

 talk, I been see good thing." Hut the presents had all gone back to Adiri. Låter on Biri told 

 the people of the wonderful village he had been to in Adiri. (Biri, Ipisia). 



66. This is the dream of a man named Gibiima. „Ghost (spirit) belong me," he said, 

 „hc go place belong devil (the dead)." He went into the men's house vvhich was very large and 

 met there an old Mawäta man named Miria who liad died long before. Miria touched Gibiima 

 with his fingers and said, „Oh, you no dead, you (your) body too strong (härd). What's the 

 matter you come?" „I come see this country. Where father belong me?" „No, father belong 

 you he stop along other village, you can't go there, that place he too far." Miria began beating 

 a drum, and Gibùma sat beside him. After a while two women came from the bush dressed in 

 fine grass skirts and gay leaves and began to dance, and when they had finished they returned 

 to the bush. Suddenly Mi'ria began to shake and Gibùma as well. Two armed men came out 

 from the bush aud attacked Gibùma, trying to spear him. „I get up — I cant get up, I want 

 run — I cant run, I don't know what thing keep me back." Just as the men were about to 

 spear him, he managed to roll över and över on the ground so as to dodge the spears, and at 

 last he got into the water. He tried to swim, but „hand belong me he no strong for svvim", 

 and at the very moment when his pursuers were upon him he opened his eyes, got up and tore 

 shrieking through the house, running över the people who were sleeping there. A man named 

 Mäpa caught him by the hand and said, „What's the matter you?" „Oh, I been dead, I go place 

 belong devil (the dead), two man catch me, that's why I make noise." (Gibùma, Mawäta). 



67. It once happened long ago at Mawäta that a pot with boiling dugong fat was up- 

 set över the legs of a man named Duöbe who was badly burnt. In the night his spirit went to 

 a place where he saw many dead people who were making a garden. They asked him, „What 

 name (why) you come here? you no devil (ghost), that no you (your) place." „Oh, I come look 

 you fellow." „You no stand up that time me work," they said, „you go sit down, by and by me 

 yarn." Duöbe did not sit down in the right place but on a heap of human bones which were 

 there. When the spirits had finished their work they prepared food and handed some to Duöbe, 

 but he did not want to eat. At last the spirits said, „You no want good kaikai, you sit down on 

 top bone, you kaikai bone." A man came up whose legs and nose were like a pig, and he said 

 to Duöbe, „You look me, you want that kind nose." „No, I no want." The spirit took off the 

 nose, and underneath there was a skull, and then he could not speak any more as his head was 

 all bone. The other spirits sent Duöbe home, saying that otherwise he would be killed by the 

 man with the skull. They showed him a small canoë and said, „You look that small canoë, he 



Tom. XLVII. 



