190 Gunnar Landtman. 



98. (By Köbo, Ipisia). A large canoe was nearing the coast, paddled by the men who 

 were on board, while the women attended to the fire and prepared food. The canoe looked like 

 a large house, and those who came in it were people who had died before, Köbo's departed 

 father being among them. The canoe was beached, and Köbo went up and asked the people, 

 „Where he been come that canoe?" They said, „You no talk," and after this reprimand he 

 remained silent. Two men jumped on shore and took Köbo's hand without saying anything. 

 Kôbo"s father was seen in the canoe and greeted his son. He did not come on shore but wept 

 in the canoe, for he had not seen his son for a long time, and Köbo wept on the shore. „Oh, 

 father, what place you been come?" Köbo asked him. „I been come outside, no got no water, 

 no got no firewood, that's why I come, I take firewood, fill up water." None of the other spi- 

 rits said a word. The old man showed Köbo a small box and said, „You come, more better you 

 take that box." „No, more better you come, I no want come along that canoe." The father called 

 the two men who had gone on shore, and asked them to give Köbo the box, and they did so. 

 The old man said, „He got plenty thing along that box, belong you," and Köbo kept on holding 

 the box without putting it down. He begged his father to come on shore, but the old man would 

 not come. „Where house belong you?" he asked Köbo. „That big house, you look small door, 

 belong me, bed belong me inside." The father put all sorts of food on a large shell and sent a 

 boy with it to Köbo, and the latter put down his box and ate. When he had finished he said, 

 „Wedére (shell) here." „You leave him along sand-beach," the fathgr answered, „by and by he 

 come self, j'ou fellow watch." And sure enough the shell returned to the canoe of its own 

 accord. 



The people who were sleeping in the same house as Köbo heard when he spöke to his 

 father. One man roused him and said, „Oh, what name (what) you talk about?" Köbo woke up 

 and was very angry, „Oh, no good you wake me up," he said, „I been dream along my father, 

 no good you wake me up, by and by I wake up self." „What thing you been dream?" they 

 asked him, and Köbo told them. He was almost beside himself with disappointment when he 

 could not find the box which the spirit had given him. „What name (what is it) you look round?" 

 the people said. „Father been give me one box, I put him here. No good you been wake me 

 up, you fellow fool." And there was a regulär quarrel. „Who been teil you wake up me?" he 

 grumbled at them, and a man said, „Wife belong you been sing out (summon) me that time 

 you make noise (talked while asleep), that's why I come." K(')bo was furiously angry with his 

 wife and nearly heat her. 



99. (By Gaméa, Mawåta). He found himself at Måbudavane, and the place had been 

 cleared, so there were no trees, only houses. Gaméa and another man named Mäuo were there 

 together, and the former said, „I never before been look all same this place, he light altogether." 

 The men's house was close to the water, and there were many people about. Gaméa asked M.iuo, 

 „Where he come from that plenty man, before no much man?" „Altogether that man he dead 

 before," Mäuo said, „he come from Pärama, from Türitüri, from Mawäta, from Mâsingâra, he 

 stop this house." But Gaméa was a little frightened and said, „No good, de vil (spirit) he stop, 

 this house no belong devil, more better you send him go other place." 



Tom. XLVII. 



