Tlie Folk Tales oj thc Kivjai Popuans. 227 



swallovved them, thereby becoming pregnant. After a fevv days she was delivered, but instead o{ 

 a child she brought forth a ivario (hawk). When the bird grew big, it caught fish for its mother, 

 and she eut them up and cooked them on the fire. She gave some to the hawk, but it only 

 wanted a small pièce and signed to her to keep the rest herself. Bokäri said, „What for you go 

 catch him fish, give me? Father no been make you along me, I make you self." The monster 

 hawk even caught turtle and dugong in its clavvs and brought them to Bokarl, and she eut them 

 up, cooked the meat, and gave it to the bird, whieh, however, only ate a small pièce, pushing the 

 rest with its beak towards the woman (abbrev.). 



Once the hawk when playing about, hopped up on Bokâri's lap, and she eut off three 

 Strips of her skirt and tied them round its neck and legs. And she said, „I put you my name, 

 you no ivario, you (your) name belong bokarl. You go along Daväne, find him one big man, 

 that Koudäbo, father beloug you, you make him out. Suppose people want shoot you, you go 

 catch him Koudäbo quick." So the hawk fiew awaj^, crying out, „Ua, tid, ud!-^ It came to 

 Daväne and eireled about looking for Koudäbo. The Da\'äne women ealled out to him, „You 

 take bow and arrow, go shoot him big zvnrio." Koudäbo, however, did not want to shoot the 

 bird but kept on watching it: „He got something there," he thought. He hade the people, „You 

 stop quiet." The hawk remained for a while stationary in mid-air trying to find the right man, 

 and the next moment it darted straight for Koudäbo, alighting on his knee. Koudäbo recognized 

 his wife's strips and exclaimed, ,,0h, that belong Bokäri." He asked the people, „You no been 

 see what's vvay he been come.'" „He been come along that small hill." „I think," Koudäbo 

 said, „he stop along some Island other side that hill." 



The hawk, spreading out its wings, flapped one in the direction of Koudäbo's canoe and 

 cried out, „Ud, uå, «rf." — he wanted Koudäbo to launch the canoe. Koudäbo said, „I think 

 that ivario been come take me," and he bade the people, „You go hoist him up sail along canoe." 

 When they were ready to sail, he said to those remaining behind, „\'ou no speak along that 

 woman I go look that Island." They departed, and the hawk perched on the mast, showing the 

 waj'. At first they sailed to .Sàibai, and when they arrived there, the hawk fiapped its wings 

 crying, .Ud, ud, ud,"- and tumed its head towards the New Guinea mainland, and they sailed in 

 that direction. When they reached Büru, the bird signed to them, „No, no, I no want that place," 

 and turned its head straight towards Kusäro. A fair wind soon took the canoe there. 



Bokäri was crying in the tree, thinking to herseif, „What time canoe he come?" At last 

 she saw the canoe. The hawk flapped its wings as if to say, „Bokäri there on top." Koudäbo 

 looked that way and saw her: „Oh, that Bokäri! I don't know what name (how) that vvoman 

 he humbug me along house!" He climbed the tree, took Bokäri in his arms, and both wept. 

 Koudäbo asked her, „What thing j-ou been do that time vou been catch him this Island?" „Oh, 

 hnval-abc'rc ail time been look me from stone," Bokäri related. „That time I go spear him fish, 

 hlwai-abcre go inside along siigu, I spear him, blood be burst out, take me go this place." Bokäri 

 had stored up a great quantity of the meat from the many dugong and turtle which the hawk 

 had caught for her, and they put it ail in the canoe. .Ail embarked and they set sail, the hawk 

 resuming its perch on the mast. .At last they landed in Davâne. Koudäbo carried his bow and 

 two bamboo-headed arrows, Bokäri had a wooden spear, and the hawk hovered in the air over 

 them. When they found the htwal-abcre, Koudäbo shot her with one arrow underneath one of her 



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