The Folk-Tales of tlie Kiwai Papuatts. 207 



the good brother threw after him into the water; and he tied them on to a rope. The bad brother 

 used lo smear his hair with earth mixed with the sap of a tree, but the other brother smeared his 

 with oil from the coconuts of the hkcai-abcre. The reason why the water-being wanted to go with the 

 men was that it wished to protect them from the hhvai-ab&e. The younger brother, too, wanted some 

 coconuts for preparing oil for his hair, and was killed as in the previous version. (Amiira, Mawdta). 



B. The river-man, Ivögu, was one of the oboiihi (ef. Introduction to no. 102) who eat every- 

 thing raw. The two brothers lived at a place called Dorogori on the Oriömu. Ivogu made a Iddder of 

 the bones and hair of the animais and birds killed by the good brother. The younger brother wanted 

 coconuts for making oil and was killed by the hiwai-abére as in the previous versions, and Ivogu told 

 elder brother of his death. The man summoned people from many places as far as Kfwai, and they 

 the went to find the hiwai-abere. She was so heavy after having devoured the man that she could not 

 move, and they killed her. The surviving brother opened her belly and took out his brother's bones 

 for burial at home, and the people sang on their way back, 



„Diibidinho dibi dâbidiroro âibiro kojve'a âibie âibi ddbidiroro. — Pull him canoë along paddle, 

 move him paddle fore, pull again." 



Ivogu still lives in the river and the elder ot the two brothers at Dorogori. In another version by 

 the same narrator the owner of the coconut-tree is called an oriogoniko (cf. no. 135; Moki'me, Mavvâta). 



A MEETING WITH BEINGS WHO IMPART USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. 



121. A Kubira man named Kercma while hunting in the bush killed tive pigs. He had 

 with him a fine dog named Bigama, which with the other dogs was chasing a large pig, when 

 ail of a sudden the animais jumped into a pond or water-hole. In it tiiere lived a huge éterari 

 (monstrous lizard, cf. no. 2), many, many fathoms long, with a back like the roof of a house. 

 The pond contained sait water and was full of fish. The éterari was the master of the pig, and 

 when it came running, the monster opened its jaws, and the pig foUowed by the dogs ran right 

 into its stomach, after which the eterari's head vanished beneath the surface. Keréma came to 

 the pond, and not seeing any of the dogs waded out in the water, and he too was swallowed 

 up by the éterari. The inside of its body was like a house, and Keréma found his dogs there. 

 He considered himself lost and vvailed to himself at the thought of his wife and children. There 

 were many people in the eterari's stomach, and they said to Keréma, „Me belong éterari, what 

 name (why) you come?" „I been kill five pig, all dog he jump along water, I go too, éterari he 

 catch me." The people said to Keréma, „Éterari been make this Island (country), he ne (defecate) 

 all time, ne all time, make this Island big one, mangrove (bush) he come up.^ Kasâvo (semen) 

 belong éterari come out, make him man, éterari father belong me fellow." „What for you no 

 make him house on top?" „No, éterari — that house belong me fellow. Me fellow go on top, 

 go what place you (your) garden; one thing, you no look me fellow. Me got dog, kill pig, bring 

 him pig here, go inside again. Me got garden, too, you fellow think that belong (is a) bush." 



Meanvvhile Kerémas wife was wailing for him. She found tiie five pigs killed by her 

 husband and foUowed his tracks to the water-hole where they ended, and she thought that he 

 had been taken by a crocodile. The people carried the five pigs home and prepared a mourning 

 feast, and Keréma's wife laj' down on the fioor crying. 



N:o 1. 



