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from a large tree and said to him, „Jawana, j'ou give me pigeon, I carry him." „Héi!" Jawana 

 exciaimed, „what name (why) you come?" „I come, I woman helong you." Jawana did not 

 knovv that she was a hiwai-abcre and tool< her home with him, and she carried his birds. Ja- 

 nudo at sight of them said, „Héi, Jawana, what name you take that woman along hare?" „Eh, 

 I no want you," the hiivai-abcre interrupted, „I come along my man, I leave him plenty people," 



— this u'as not the truth, for she had no kinsmen and had been living alone in the tree. 



Jawana said to Janüdo, „Come on, you me (we) go along garden." So they went, and 

 the hnvai-abcre joined them. They did not do any work there but only brought home bananas 

 and taro. Janüdo baked the taro, and the hiwai-abcre did the same with the birds which Jawana 

 had killed before. The food prepared by Janüdo was well cooked, but that of the hiwai abére 

 was raw. The bad woman used to break wind all the time, ^^ and Janüdo said to her brother 

 „What kind woman you take, that's devil-woman." In the night they slept. 



When they got up in the morning the hiwai-abcre said to Jawana, „You take sister be- 

 long you, go give my people, I got plenty people." According to custom anyone who wants to 

 marry gives his sister in exchange for his bride. AU three of them again went to the garden 

 and brought home a quantity of food. Jawana smeared his face with mud in token of his sorrow, 

 for he was going to give his sister in exchange for the hiivai-abcrc. He said to Janüdo, „Sister, 

 what place I been take that woman he come, you go that place." The hiivai-abcre took three 

 baskets of taro and Janüdo two, and the latter said to her brother, „Jawana, I leave you now. 

 I been think that no proper woman. I think he no got people, that's all one (she is alone)." The 

 two women set off, and Jawana picking up his bow and arrows wanted to go with his sister, 

 but the hiwai-abcre stopped him, saying, „Jawana, you no come, I got plenty people, by and by 

 he fight you, kill you." When the two women reached the large tree, the hiivai abére spöke to 

 the tree, „You open door." The tree opened, and the girl went in. There were no people in- 

 side and she began to weep bitterly, thinking of her brother, „Jawana, he got no people that wood, 

 that devil-woman he been gammon, .say he got plenty people." Then at the word of the hiumi- 

 abcre the tree closed. 



The hiwai-abcre, who remained outside, ate all the taro which she and the girl had brought 

 with them, and when she had finished, she climbed up the tree. At the top was a hole through 

 which she defecated on the girl. After that she went back towards the house, and when she 

 came near, she began to run calling out, Jawdna, you take bow and arrow, you come, my 

 people he run behind me, he want kill me," but no one was there. Jawana seized his weapons, 

 and when he came up, the deceitful woman said, „You look, that's last brother belong me he go 

 back now, close up he been catch me." Jawana wanted to run after the enemy, but the woman 

 said, „No, you no go, you stop here." When it was dark they slept, and Janüdo slept alone in 

 the tree. 



Jawana feit very sorry at the thought of his sister and could not eat. One day he said 

 to the hiwai-abcre, „You go along garden I go shoot pigeon, by and by I come behind (after you)," 



— but he wanted to go and look for his sister. Janüdo was wailing inside the tree. 



„Jawdna, nio nàti ibodoro ndmu årbipuai btirn diriomöro öta liru wàtonômi. — Jawana, 

 you follow my track, brother. I stop along empty country, no people here, I stop along 

 big tree." 



Tom. XLVIT. 



