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fetch bananas from the garden. The man brought him good, ripe bananas, but the öriogoni/io 

 did not like these and sent him after young, green bananas, which he and bis comrade ate. 



The man's ears began to grow as large as those of the öriogoruho.^* „You all right now," 

 the monster said, „I been learn (teach) you. I very glad now — you got bed, 1 got bed, you 

 got mat, I got mat." 



One day when the oriogorûJio went fishing, the man ran away home. AU his friends 

 had thought him dead, there had been a death-feast, and his wife had made a „gammon-grave" 

 for him. He was received with great joy, and the people asked him, „^'ou all right?" „You no 

 talk," the man replied hurriedly, for he knew that the åriogoriUio would follow him in pursuit, 

 „You take down altogether house, make him new house on top post, no man make him house 

 along ground." They obeyed him and ej-ected new houses on \'ery tall posts, so that they could 

 not be reached from the ground, and some built their houses in trees. -^ The dögs and pigs, too, 

 were brought from the ground into the houses. 



The öriogorålio summoned all his friends to come and light the people, and many orio- 

 gorålio, l'tlitiiiii, ûcre-bàro (the ghosts of people whose heads have been eut off), and other spirits 

 arrived at the place, and the people could hear the noise („all same wind he come"). The man 

 threw out a dog for the öriogornho, who, however, did not care for it. He then threvv his eldest 

 child to the öriogonUio, but the monster said, „No, I no want him pickaninny." Then all the 

 people caught hold of the man and hurled him out, and the àriogorûho caught him, for he wanted 

 him alone. ^* The evil créature killed the man and divided his body among his companions, one 

 receiving the head and the others the arms, legs, intestines, and other parts. When the man was 

 devoured the evil beings left the place, and the people came down and built houses on the ground 

 as before. (Nämai, Mawåta). 



136. At Gdima a certain unmarried boy named Nåeka used to run after the wonien 

 everywhere, harassing them even at their place of retirement. One day he was severely punished 

 by the husband of one of the offended women, and in a state of rage he went away to another 

 place, saying to himself, „That good, I no got no rnother, no got no father, no got no brother, I 

 stop one man (alone)." 



At length he came to a large tree which was inhabited by a man who properly speaking 

 was an ôrigorûso, and his wife. The two were away, and the boy hid in the tree awaiting their 

 return. After a while the ôrigorûso put in an appearance carrying a pig, and on scenting the 

 boy he thought to himself, „Who that man along my house?" The two met, and the ôrigorûso 

 who was quite friendly disposed kept the boy with him. One day the ôrigorûso carried off a 

 woman who was working in her garden, and he and the boy killed and ate her. Another time 

 the boy asked him to bring home a woman alive, which he did, threatening to kill her if she 

 tried to run away. She and the boy were married. Once Walking together in the bush the boy 

 and ôrigorûso saw from a .distance the former's parents who were crying in their garden, and 

 the boy understood that they were crying for his sake. He felt sorry for them and in their 

 absence went and worked in their garden in order to help them. The next day the old folks won- 

 dered, who their unknown helpmate could be, and believing that it was their son they wept. The 

 following night four men were set to watch the garden, and when the boy came back they 



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