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other side on his way to Adiri, and thenceforward he remained a spirit. Wie, who could not 

 get across the river, returned to their last camp, and there she still remains in the bush. 



It is not knovvn why Gämei came to fetch Wie away from her home, but the reason 

 may hava been that he did not vvant any other man to take her. (Adâgi, Mawâta). 



A. Very similar to the previous version, Ihough Gâmei is said to hâve been a Dibiri man, 

 who was killed at Maipdni. Wie ai first took the spirit to be Gâmei in the llesh. He made her drink 

 his blood in orJer to make her „crankj-", and she thought that it was water. The places where they 

 stopped are partly différent from those in the first version. Wie began to think that the man was not 

 Gâmei but his ghost, and her suspicions were confirmed when he decked himself with leaves after the 

 fashion of spirits. Finally he danced away along the beach in the direction of Adiri, and Wie with 

 her chiidren could follow him no further but remained in the bush, where she can still be seen at 

 times. (Gaméa, Mawâta). 



A REAPPEARING SPIRIT WHO BROUGHT DUGONG TO HARPOONERS. 



89. Once while some Mawâta men were out to spear dugong, a woman named Kariisu 

 was bitten by a snake in the bush. Half-way home she began to vomit, and the people carried 

 her to her house and l^led her. Her skin became as white as that of a pig, which has been singed 

 and scraped, and in a short time she died. 



The harpooners returned home to\\ards sunset and landed near Ttrrittiri. One of them, 

 Gaméa who told this story, saw the ghost of the woman, which walked along the beach crying 

 bitterly. He said to the others, „That cry he no belong man he stop (anyone alive), that (is) 

 devil-(ghost)-cry. Look, that man (person) he white all over. He man.' he woman? No, he got 

 ânio (breast), he carry basket — that woman." When they shouted after her, she disappeared 

 like a bird flying away. And Gaméa said, „I think somebody dead along place (at home), by an 

 by you me (we) hear." On arriving at Mawâta they heard the waii of the people, and a man 

 told them, „Oh, Kartiru, that time he go garden, snake he bite him, he dead." „Oh, oh, yes, 

 uri'o (spirit) belong him me fellow been look." 



One evening a few days later Gaméa and some other men went to a sandbank off 

 Mawâta. The moon was shining, and they saw the ghost of a inan wading in the water up to 

 his waist carrying a harpoon line. Gaméa said, „That ghost belong man, I can't make out who 

 man. I think by and by you rne (we) go reef, some man go foul along rope (will be entangied 

 and drowned)." When they approached, the apparition disappeared. The men all thought, „More 

 better no go along reef, inore better wait." vSome one said, „That nrio belong Ttirittîri man," 

 but the others thought difterently, „No, m-.-o belong Ttiritüri man no come this place." The 

 same ghost could be seen another night. 



After a certain time some men decided to go to the reefs in spite of all this. So they 

 set out and built the harpooning platforms on the reef. In the evening Gaméa speared one dugong 

 and Tom another. A third man named Mâiva became entangied in the harpoon-line and was 

 dragged into the water before he had time to cry out, and there he was drowned. AI that tiine 

 the people used not to secure the end of the line to the platform, and Mâiva was never found 

 again. His friends were looking for him all night and the greater part of the foUowing day, but 



Tom. XLVII. 



