240 Gunnar Landtman. 



he corne, him he send wind first time, him he come along that wind." The old woman came 

 and called out to Jesånga, „You give me that giri, I no want cook him, that girl been teil you 

 lie." „You climb him up that tree^ you come," Jesanga said. The old woman began to climb 

 the tree, Coming nearer and nearer, but just as she was about to reach the girl she slipped and 

 feil. She was horribly crushed and died on the spot. The tree lowered itself, and the two \vo- 

 men came down. They prepared a meal, and when they had eaten took up their things and 

 went away to Düe. 



Jesänga said to Due, „My word, behind woman (Düe's second wife) he too much talk. 

 That's vvhy I carry him girl go other place. Close up one old woman kaikai that girl. You take 

 that girl." Diie's second wife, Mugi'ma, said, „No, you two no come here, you clear out from 

 here." „No," Jesänga said, „you two take girl, I go other place, that's all I want give girl." In 

 the night Jesänga and Wiawi'a slept outside the house, while Due and Mugi'ma slept inside. In 

 the morning Jesänga said to Wi'awia, „You me go take kaikai along what place me been come 

 yesterday." They went and brought home a quantity of yams, sweet potatoes, coconuts and 

 sugar-cane, which they baked and ate. When they had ended their meal they went to Due, and 

 Jesänga asked him, „True you no want take that girl?" Diie said, „Me all right, I like take that 

 girl, one thing, Mugi'ma too much talk, he no want take that girl." Jesänga said, „All right." 

 She plucked a part of a red sugar-cane and a shoot of a tree called hindcmu, and then went away, 

 carrying Wi'awia on her Shoulders. She sang as she walked, 



„Eh, ùliambo nâire oh, bàdeamambo nâire eh, icta ivi'iidjO iseta whidj'6. — One old woman 

 fall down from that tree, he altogether dead." 



The girl said, „More better you put me along ground, I go walk myself." „No," the 

 mother said, „I carry J'ou." After a while they sat down to rest and prepared some food. When 

 they had eaten, Jesânga dug a hole in the ground. „I say, mother," the girl asked her, „what 

 for you dig him that hole?" „No, I dig him nothing," the mother answered. When the hole 

 was completed, the mother asked the girl, „You finish kaikai?" „Yes I finish." Then the mother 

 said, „AU right, you me (we) go now." She placed the girl close to the hole, seized her sharp 

 digging stick and speared the girl with it right through the ehest, and killed her. Then Jesdnga 

 put her in the grave and covered her wàth earth. In a basket she carried the stones with which 

 she used to heat food, thèse she put on the grave where she also planted the red sugar-cane 

 and the hrndemti-sprig. When she had finished her task she took the rest of her things and went 

 away weeping bitterly. She kept on Walking, until she came to Dumäre in Dùdi. There she 

 remained, saying to herself, „Ail right, I stop here, that's my place." 



One night while Due was dreaming, Wiawia's spirit came to him and said, „Oh, my 

 father, he (her mother) been bury me there along road, he been stick me along dàpae (digging 

 stick). You come to-morrow morning, you come look burying ground." In the morning Due 

 woke up. He wept and thought to himself, „I think him he true." At daybreak he took his 

 bow and arrow and went to see the place where Wi'awia had been buried. He dug up her body, 

 took it in his arms („put it on top belong him"), and wept. When the sun rose he put it back 

 in the grave and buried it. Due returned home and brought with him two taro-roots from his 

 garden. He pretended to be ill and told Mugi'ma, „Oh, me sick, I can't go garden, you go one 

 man (alone). Suppose to-morrow I better, you vm go." Mugi'ma went alone to the garden. 



Tom. XLVIT. 



