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that an dn'gortiso lived underneath the mound where thèse laid. Suddenly the beast's head 

 emerged from the mound, and one of the girls was caught. The other ran away, calling out, 

 „You fellovv corne, one origoniso been catch that giri!" The people ail went to see: „Oh," they 

 cried, „him he stop there, morning I kill him." As it was veiy late, they returned to the camp, 

 vvailing över the girl. 



The next morning they went to the place, armed with bows and arrows and wooden 

 spears, and when the origoniso reared up its grim head from the mound, some men ran away 

 but the others shot their arrows at the beast and at last killed it, and the head was eut off. 



The parents of the girl, who had been taken by the drigortiso, had remained at Ipisia, 

 and some people were sent in a canoe to inform them of their loss. The mother and father 

 began to wail över their daughter and launching a canoe sailed över to Abaüra. „What's the 

 matter," they asked the people, „you no been look out (after) good my girl?" „Me fellow, been 

 look out (were occupied with) gdmoda, „the people explained," me no been see that time he go." 

 When the father and mother had finished vvailing, the former seized his weapons and challenged 

 the man in whose care the girl had been to come and fight. „Father," the other man ansvvered, 

 „I no want give row, I sorry along that girl." And the people all said, „Oh, father, more better 

 you come sit down. I been kill that origoniso finish." So they all wailed again, and the father 

 was given the skull of the origoniso. They all collected a large amount of food and the next 

 day returned to Ipisfa. 



The dead girl's father gave her name to her triend, who had escaped from the origoniso. 

 „No good," he said, „you go along proper father, more better you go along me." Her father 

 acquiesced, „He good, I no want talk," he said, and the girl was adopted by the other man and 

 after a time she was married to his son. The girl's own father said to her and her husband, 

 „Another (some) time you help that man he been give name, another time you help me." 

 (Bfri, Ipisia). 



139. A man once sent his wife back to her parents, because she was good for nothing 

 and could not make sago. He wanted to find another woman. One day he was seen by the 

 daughter of an origoniso, who wondered, „What name (how) he come here, this my place?" 

 She told the origoniso what she had seen, and he asked his two daughters, „You want take him 

 that man? You want marry?" „Yes," the girls ansvvered, „we want take him." The origoniso 

 went and captured the man and brought him home. „You stop here, house belong me," he told 

 him, „you man belong my girl" (ef. no. 161). The man stayed there and married the elder girl, 

 and the younger, who gave him up to her sister, said to him, „^'ou my father." A boy was 

 bom to the man and his wife. 



The origoniso, who used to eat people, after some time took a fancy to that man too. 

 In order that he should not run away, he one day suddenly rolled him up in the mat on which 

 he was sleeping and hoisted him up into a large tree, where he fastened him to a branch. The 

 man's wife wept and asked her father, „What for you put him along tree?" and the origoniso 

 answered, „I want kaikai." He put the two women in charge of the man, vvhile he went to 

 make sago for the forthcoming meal. The man's wife said to her father, „You go eut sago long 

 way, no close to," and the origoniso did as he was told. In his absence the two girls climbed 



Tom. XL VII. 



