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bündle of arrows, his basket and bovv, puts the bushes again on his head, and thus attired goes 

 back home. There he lays dovvn his things and head-bushes while pieparing to cook the taro. 

 When ready he picks up his bow and a long bone-pointed arrow, replaces the bushes on his head, 

 and puts on an ad/go (arni-guard or bracer) and a long kôima (ornament stuck into the adigo). 



In this apparel he goes out on the sandbeach and stands close to the water vvhere he 

 remains motionless. He carries the bündle of arrows under his right arm and holds the big arrow 

 pointing upwards in his right hand, and the bovv horizontallj" in his left. -' He can see Säibai 

 and Mavvata and the open sea as he stands there imniovable. The tide comes up higher and 

 higher, but only when he is up to his waist in water does he turn round and go home. Again 

 he puts down his things, and taking out the taro from the öven eats. He blovvs at the block of 

 stone, vvhich opens, and he goes in, blows again, and the stone closes. 



One morning he put on his things and stood in his usual position on the beach. He looked 

 at Saibai and Mawdta and the open sea. Turning slowly to the right and left he savv tvvo turtles 

 close to the beach, a female turtle underneath and a male on top. Wävva could not himself take 

 the turtles home because he was too fat, so he called out for somebody who might hear him, „He got 

 man he stop bush? More better he come haul turtle along shore!"^* A Togo bushman, Djäbi 

 by name, heard his voice and thought, „What nanie (what is that).' W;iwa he sing out (summons) 

 man come haul him turtle." Djdbi told his wife, „More better you stop look out pickaninny, I go 

 look my pdna (friend)." Djäbi went and asked Wåvva, ,,Pritia, what name you look?" and Wawa 

 replied, „I hnd him tvvo turtle, more better you come haul him along my house," adding, „More 

 better you take man-turtle, vvoman-turtle that's my turtle, ^'ûu haul man-turtle belong you first 

 time, behind you come haul vvoman-turtle belong me." (The female turtles are considered the 

 best). „No," Djäbi protested, „more better you haul him turtle belong you, I haul him turtle 

 belong me fellow," but Wäwa did not approve of this. „No," he said, „I no can haul him turtle, I big 

 man, me too heavy, I got tcre påtu (bündle of arrows), plenty thing." Djäbi suggested, „More 

 better you leave him all them thing," but Wâwa persisted, „No, I no ean leave him, haul him 

 turtle along my house!" 



Djäbi got a rope and hauled first one and then the other turtle ashore. He took Wâwa's 

 turtle to his house, and Wäwa followed carrying his bow and arrows and other things. Djäbi 

 left the turtles close to Wävva's house; he was quite exhausted („he got hot wind"), and said, 

 „1 got big vvork, all time you humbug me." But Wäwa only said, „Oh, pdna^ that nothing," 

 and put dovvn all his things by the house. He stood up with folded arms and ordered Djäbi about, 

 „First time you eut him my turtle, by and by you eut him turtle belong you behind (afterwards)." 

 „No," Djäbi protested, „I eut him turtle belong me," but Wäwa insisted, „No, no, you eut him 

 turtle belong me first." 



So Djäbi obeyed and first eut up the female turtle belonging to Wäwa and afterwards 

 his own turtle. Wäwa said, „Fäna, you cook first my turtle." „No, you cook self you (your) 

 turtle, 1 cook my turtle, 1 finish eut him." Bût Wäwa again insi.sted, „No, I want you cook my 

 turtle now first time," and Djäbi yielded. 



Wäwa said, „You finish cook turtle, v'ou come look my louse," to which Djäbi agreed, 

 „All right, you sleep (lie down), I come look." Wäwa lay down, and Djäbi took a coconut-bowl 

 which he put close to him and began to collect the lice in the bowl which after a while became 

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