254 Gunnar Landtman. 



The ne.^t day Nädere vvent again to his garden, and the same man, waiting close to the 

 hill, sprang on to his back as he was passing by. „Uh," Nàdere called ont, ,.I been carry _\'ou 

 ycsterda_\-, \'ou been take all kaikai lielong me." He tried to push him down but could not, and 

 bad to carry him to the garden. Nädere worked in his banana plantation, and preparator\' to 

 going home eut two bunches of bananas, collected firewood, and drevv water. He tied bis load 

 together with a string made of a dry banana leaf. -The other man remained the whole time on 

 his Shoulders. 



The third man, who bad been watching the two lellows, seized bis bovv ani.1 arrovvs and 

 stood by, close to the hill wbere the wicked man lived. „All same yesterday," he thought to 

 himself, „that man all time he stop on top, no corne down." Nàdere came carrying his bürden, 

 and just as the evil being was jumping down, the man who had heen watching, shot him with 

 an arrow. Then Nàdere hit him with a pièce of fîrewood, and he died. „Good thing," Nàdere 

 said to his helpmate, „you been shoot him, he humbug me too much." They eut off the head 

 of the dead man and carried it to Nàdere's place, where they held a dance called f^pi, which 

 is performed when people bring home captured heads. (Menégi, Maw.ita). 



THE MAN WHO WAS ROBBED BY A MALEVOLENT BEING. 



170. A man named Naderéburo lived in a house in Dàru, and underneath a hill on the 

 same Island lived anotber man named Kepoköburo. One day Naderéburo returned from bis gar- 

 den and prepared sonie food. He called out, „Ai-ario. nio gdiiioda emegedio! — Some man he 

 come, make my gdmodal"- '^ Kepok(')buro heard him and jumped up from beneath the ground. 

 „Who you?" said Naderéburo. „My name belong Kepoköburo. Who you.'" „Me Naderéburo. 

 ^'ou come inside house, you friend belong me. You come make gdnioda.'' They sat down in 

 the house, and as there was no water for making the gdiiioda, Kepok(')buro asked bis host for 

 .some. While Naderéhuio vvent to draw water KepokiJburo got up, seized the gånioda roots and 

 some food and disappeared underneath his hill. Naderéburo returned after a while and found his 

 guest gone and the gdiiioda and food with him, he was \'Qvy angry, but Kepok()bui'o had put 

 himself out of harm's way. (Samàri, Mawâta). 



A TREACHEROUS BEING IS HIMSELF PAID OUT. 



171. Inside a hill in Dàru there lived a bad man who was akin to ths orioguriUio (ef. 

 no. 135). 



One of the Dàru men spent all his time working in his garden. At last he grew tired 

 and thought to himself, „I make garden all time, my mouth he too dry, 1 no been kaikai fish or 

 meat." The next day he called his dögs and went to hunt in the bush. When he came close to 

 the hill, the bad man who lived there came up. „Eh, who you," the Dàru man called out. „That's 

 me, you no been see me before? Plenty time I see you make garden, I make garden too," but 

 that was not true, for the bad man bad no garden. 



Tora. XLVII. 



