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arms and, as she turned round, with the other arrow underneath the other arm, " Bokåri speared 

 her, and the hawk swooped down and smashed her head with its clavvs. The dead body was 

 theo eut into pièces and burnt. 



Koudàbo and Bokâri said to the bird, „You (your) name bokåri, you stop on top, fly all 

 över every place. I send you go on top, you catch him fish, kaikai belong you." Hence the 

 bird has two names, bokåri, used of a large species, and ivario used of a smaller one. (Gaméa, 

 Ma w åta). 



A. In Rep. CiJtnbr. Atillirop. Exp. vol. v. pp. 33 sqq. The Birth ef Kiisa Kap, ihe Mvthical 

 Bird. Maiwasa of Dauan whcn Walking along the reef with his vvife Bukar!, was seen by a liogai (Tor- 

 res straits name for hiwai-nhcre) who feil in love with him. The dogai turned herself into a stuyu (octo- 

 pus) and caught Bukari when the latter tried to spear her, and she sent the woman adrift in a drum. 

 Then the dogai simulated the wife and lived with Maiwasa, but she had very bad manners and used 

 to break wind when she moved. ^^ At length he concluded that she was a dogai. Bukari stranded 

 on a sandbank and ate some seeds of her ear ornament, and thereby she became pregnant. She laid 

 an egg, and a bird was hatched, whom his mother named Kusa Kap. The bird-son grew to a gigantic 

 size and caught fish and dugong for his mother. He also brought her water and fire. Låter on she 

 sent him to Maiwasa who rescued her, and she killed the dogai. 



ANOTHER TALE OF A HIWAI-ABERE WHO SUPPLANTS A WIFE. 



149. At Büdji there lived a man named Madära and his vvife Sine. They spent their 

 time working in their garden, planting many kinds of vegetables, taro, yams, sweet potatoes, and 

 sugar-cane, and the man also used to shoot pig and kangaroo. Not far from them there lived a 

 huge snake named Måigidiibu (ef. no. 414|. He was really a man who in the day concealed 

 himself in the skin of a snake but at night appeared in his human form. He, too, had a garden 

 in which he used to work. There was also a htwai-abére, who like the others worked in a gar- 

 den belonging to her. 



Madâra and Si'ne led an uneventful life (abbrev.) After a time the woman became preg- 

 nant. One day she went fishing in a swamp with a net (brisa-bdsa). The hnvai-abcrc was fîshing 

 in another part of the same swamp, but the two women were unaware of each other's présence, 

 and Sine thought to herself, „I one man (alone), no man hère catch fish along this swamp." hi 

 the evening both returned home, and at the same time Madâra came back from the chase, and 

 Mâigidiibu, too, betook himself to his place. 



The next morning Sine went fishing in the same swamp. The hiwai-abcrc was there again, 

 and this time the two women happened to meef. On seeing Sine the hiwai-abcrc thought to 

 herself, „Oh, very fine woman;" and she called out to her, „Oh, my girl, you come." Sine came 

 near and asked her, „What you want?" „You come, I been see one good tree, he got fruit on 

 top, you break him, I want kaikai." „I come," Sine said, „you look out (after) my basket." 

 While she was climbing up the tree, the hiwai-abére chewed a pièce of a fish called hirimàe, 

 which she kept for a „medicine". She spät the juice of it at the tree and said, „You go long," 

 and the tree stretched high up into the air lifting up Sine. ^^ „Eh," the woman cried, „what's 

 the good you tell lie along me? I leave my man, close up I bear pickaninny." 



ïom. XLVII. 



