194 . Gunnar Landtman. 



full. Wåwa feil asleep and snored, and Djåbi looked at him: „Oh, he sleep novv."^^ He pushed 

 him a little: „Pdnn, pana! Oh, he no get up, catch him proper sleep now."^- Djåbi left the 

 bowl close to Wåwa, and taking the meat of the female turtle put it into a basket, and ran 

 away to his wife and children. He thought to himself, „No fault belong me, fault belong you, 

 all time you humbug me." Djåbis wife asked him, „Where you come?" „O, you no talk, that 

 man he humbug me, I steal turtle belong him." He told his wife, „You (and) me no go stop 

 along ground, more better you me make house along long post, go make him long way (far 

 away). By and by that man come fight you me." 



Djåbi and his wife and children went far away into the bush and there erected a house 

 on very tall posts. ^^ They took a dog, a cassowary, a pig, a kangaroo, and a cuscus with them 

 into the house and closed the door. 



By and by Wåwa v\oke up and said, „Pana, where you go, pana?" He saw the coco- 

 nut-bowl: „Oh, louse belong me." On looking round he discovered what had happened: „Oh, 

 that man he been steal him good turtle belong me, leave him bad turtle." He seized the bowl, 

 and threw away all the lice on to the beach, where they began to walk about in the shape of 

 crabs. That is why crabs are so plentiful at Måbudavåne. Wåwa ate a little of the turtle which 

 had no fat, and left the rest. 



Wåwa planned vengeance on Djåbi. He summoned all the hushmen, sending word all 

 över the country to call upon all the Dåbu, Güia, Tabatåta, and Wûibu men tu help him fight 

 Djåbi. They all came and slept one night at Wawa's house. Wåwa said, „Pana belong me 

 steal my good turtle, leave him bad turtle, you (and) me go fight." And the bushmen replied, 

 „All right, you me go." 



In the morning they started, Wåwa leading the way. Presently Djåbi saw them: „Oh, 

 Wåwa he come!" He said to his wife, „All he come now; Wåwa he come along head." The 

 people formed a dense crowd underneath and round the house, each aiming a bone-pointed arrow 

 at it. Wåwa called out. „You chuck him out pickaninny first." Djåbi thinking, „I no chuck 

 him out pickaninny," threw out the cuscus. Wåwa turned aside his arrow, not wanting to spear 

 the cuscus but waiting for the child, and the cuscus feil on the arrows of the bushmen and was 

 eut to pièces. Wåwa cried again, „No good you chuck him out pårivia (cuscus), I want picka- 

 ninny belong you." But Djåbi thought, „I no chuck him out pickaninny," and threw the kangaroo. 

 Wåwa, who did not want to spear the kangaroo, again turned away his arrow, and the animal 

 was speared bj' those of the bushmen. Wåwa said, „You chuck him pickaninn}' now." Djåbi, 

 as before, did not throw out his child, but the cassowary. Wåwa moved his arrow, and the 

 cassowary was killed by the bushmen. Wåwa shouted to him, „You chuck him out pickaninny 

 quick, chuck him out that girl," and Djåbi threw out the pig, which was spared by Wåwa but 

 feil a victim to the bushmen. 



Djåbi protested, „Oh, påna, what name (why) you want him? I think enough. No fault 

 belong me, fault belong you, you humbug me, that's why I steal woman-turtle." He took the 

 girl, decked her in a new grass skirt and beautiful tlowers, and the mother and father wept toge- 

 ther („make him one cry"). They made her stand up at the door and said, „Oh, fine, nice girl, 

 more better you take him, påna, that wife belong you," but Wåwa replied, „I no want no wife." 

 Then the father and mother threw down the girl, and Wawa's arrow hit her under the chin, penetrat- 



Tom, XLVII. 



