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I cook him?" and jumped into the water. Afterwards he went to Ivôgu's place and picking up 

 the bones Ivögu had thrown away, tied them on to his rope. 



The younger brother, too, wanted to go and fetch some coconuts, but Ivögu said, „No, 

 no, you no go, by and by that woman he kill you. I been find him other road (the rope); what's 

 way you go?" The younger brother, nevertheless, set out in his canoe. He shot the same kind 

 of game as Ivögu. Pamöa again appeared, Ooating on the surface, and wanted to come into the 

 canoe, and he fought him vvith his paddle, but the river-man forced himself in, although his hands 

 vvere bleeding from the blows. Pamöa paddled the canoe at the bow and the other man aft. 

 They reached the coconut-tree, and the young man, tying a string round his ankles, climbed the 

 tree and knocked down some nuts into the water. The tree again wailed, 



„Mdit ino sepàte daliike datüke måu!^^ 

 The wild woman, who was working in her garden, at the same moment gave a start: „Oh, I 

 no all same before!" she cried. „What name (why) people come humbug me all time?" and she 

 set up a roar in her anger. Pamöa shouted to the man in the tree, „Look out, that woman he 

 come!" The man called out, „Pamöa, what road I go?" and Pamöa answered, „I no can give 

 you that ladder, that belong you (your) brother, long one. That helong you, too short one, two 

 three bone, he can't get him along (reach) coconut — fault belong you, no been give me bone." 

 The hiwai-abére came running and shot the man, hitting him at the back of his head, and he feil 

 down. „That fault belong you," Pamöa said, „you no look out (after) me. That brother belong 

 you he good, I good for him ; you been no good, I no good for you. You look — he too short 

 ladder belong you; I chuck him, can't get on top, he short." The hiivai-abcre killed the man 

 and devoured all his flesh. Pamöa went back with the tide. On reaching his own place he jumped 

 into the water, and Ivögu found the canoe floating down the river, but his brother was not there. 

 „Oh," he cried, „something been catch him now." 



Once more Ivögu went up the river in his canoe, and Pamöa floating on the surface joined 

 him as usual. Ivögu did not shoot anything this time, he only wanted to find the hiwai-abére. 

 In order to make her come he climbed the coconut-tree and knocked down some nuts, and the 

 tree wailed as before. The hiwai-abére came running with her bow and arrows, and Ivögu quickly 

 climbing down was ready for her.*i He shot her twice through the body from right to left and 

 from left to right and killed her. Opening her belly with his bamboo knife hc took out the body 

 of his brother, which he put in a bäru, (basin of bark). After cutting off the head of the hiivai- 

 abérc he burnt her body and her house as well. He also .shook down all the coconuts into the 

 water, and this is w hy ever since coconuts are floating down the Oriömu river. Pamöa went back 

 into the water, and Ivögu returning home buried the body of his brother and hung the head of 

 the hiwai-abére on the grave. Since then the Kiwai, Türitüri, Dåru, and Päråma people go up 

 the Oriömu river to kill bushmen, and bring home their heads. They follow Ivögus e.xample. 

 (Nämai, Mawäta). 



A. The name of the river-being was Ivögu, and the two brothers lived at Piboove near the 

 mouth of the Oriömu. When they knocked down the coconuts the tree wailed, 



„Män mo kiinikiini sejidle datiike da/ icke ! — Oh, mother, he knock him down now my ear!" 

 The river-being did not want any meat, only the bones of the animais and birds they had killed, which 



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