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man, „Oh, öboro belong you I been see him; you dead to-morrovv." „What's the matter I dead, 

 I no proper sick?" said the man, but the next morning he died. 



On another occasion Sâvi saw his own spirit, and he summoned the spirits and asked 

 them, „What's the matter I see my oboro?" „Oh, you dead to-morrow," they answered, and 

 Såvi went home and waiied and said to his wife that he was going to die. Early the next day 

 he died without even having been ill. (Gibüma, Mawata). 



THE SPIRIT WHO OWNED THE FISH IN A SWAMP. 



92. Once the Kubi'ra people went fishing in a swamp. There lived a mânakai (spirit ot 

 a dead person) who was very angry because the people came and caught fish in his swamp. 

 One day he killed a man who came to the swamp, and threw away his body. The people who 

 were looking for him never found the body nor the being whom they suspected of having com- 

 mitted the deed. The wife of the man lamented her loss, and the people held a mourning 

 feast. (Epére, Ipisîa). 



MEETINGS WITH DEAD PEOPLE IN DREAMS (no. 93 10!> 



93. It happened long ago at Oid Mawata that a man named Gabia was badly gored by 

 a pig and died; „he proper dead," the narrator said, „one thing (but) he life again." While he 

 was dead he met a man named Wäidübu, who had died before. Wäidiibu asked Gabi'a, „What's 

 way you fellow make him pig run away from garden?" „Me fellow no savy," Gabia answered. 

 „All right, I show you fellow." Wåidiibu gave him two „medicines", one of which was the 

 Shell of a pamöa, a certain animal which lives in swamps, and the other a brown plant called 

 •pia. When making a fence the people were to put these two „medicines" underneath, and the 

 Shell should be painted red. The pia was originally the liver of a pig and will grow up where- 

 soever this is buried in the ground. The pigs will be scared away on seeing their liver underneath 

 the fencing, and the pamöa, being a swamp animal, will send them to the swamps. (Gaméa, 

 Mawata). 



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94. (By Gaméa, Mawata). He found himself at Gänalai, on the beach near Mawata, 

 where there were many spirits of dead people, men and women. Two men with very large heads 

 were beating their drums, and the rest were dancing, two women in front of the others and two 

 behind, with the men in the centre. Gaméa descrihed the dance in detail. 



After a while Gaméa saw two old-fashioned canoës nearing the shore, the one provided 

 with three and the other with four mat sails, and the people on board wearing the dress and 

 ornaments of old times. The canoës were beached and attached to poles in the ground, and the 

 new-comers were kindly received by the Mawata people, who prepared a meal for them. Gaméa 

 recognized the visitors as some Tüdu people who had died before. They said, „We fellow come 

 learn (teach) you fellow spear dugong, turtle," and they taught the Maväta men various methods 

 of doing this (abbrev.). The Tüdu men built harpooning platforms off the Gesovamüba point, al- 

 though that is no place for spearing dugong and turtle, and from all the platforms the Mawata 



Tom. XLVII. 



