Tlic Folk-Tales of lite Kiivai PapiiaiiÄ. 255 



The two men went together and found two iguanas in a tree. The man badc the orio- 

 goriilto, „Vou go on top that tree, catch that iguana." „No,- the bad man said, „I no go, alto- 

 gether dog he belong you, you master belong dog. ^'ou go on top tree, catch that iguana." Put- 

 ting dovvn iiis bow and arrows the man climbed the tree, and the two iguanas took refuge on 

 one ot" the branches. The man called out tn the öriogoriiho, ,.\'ou catcli him good that two 

 iguana, I go shake him now." He shook the branch, and both reptiles feil. The öriogon'dio 

 caught one in each hand, and ran avvay with them to his home beneath the ground. The man 

 cried out after him, „You no take two, you take one, leave me one." The poor fellovv had been 

 working härd and was deprived of all share in the spoil. He cried again. „Suppose }'ou no uant 

 leave me one, you eut him, leave me half." 



The man climbed down from. the tree and picked up his bow and arrows, furious with 

 the wicked fellovv who had decei\'ed him. When he came home, he saw smoke rising from the 

 ground and thought, „That öriogoriiho he kaikai my iguana now." He took his basket and went 

 to the garden to get some food. 



In the morning he again called his dögs and went to the bush. The oriogoråho joined 

 him in the same place as before. The sly rascal had eut his hair short in the night, so that the 

 man did not recognize him. „Who you?" the man asked him, and the öriogoriiho answered, 

 „Me." „Vesterday," the man said, „one man been humbug me." „What kind man been hum- 

 bug you?" „That man he got hair." „That man he humbug you he got hair, me no got 

 no hair." 



The two men went together, and after a while the dögs started two enormous, wild 

 iguana of the kind called clerari (ef. no. 2) v\'hich ha\e teeth like crocodiles. The two eterari 

 ran up a tree, and the dögs were barking underneath. The man said, „You go on top, take him 

 dovvn." „No, I no go, you master belong dog." „^'esterday I been go on top, one man been 

 humbug me. You no make all same, suppose you make all same, you look out." „All right," 

 the bad man said, „you go on top, I catch him one belong you, one belong me." The man 

 climbed the tree, and the eyes of the two élerari turned red as the beasts showed fight. ^ They 

 went out on a branch of the tree, and the man called out, „You catch him good, I knock him 

 dovvn." He shook the bianch, and the two eterari feil. The öriogoriiho tried to seize them, but 

 the one eterari scratched out his eyes, while the other ripped his stomach open. The öriogoriiho 

 called out, „Oh, I been humbug you yesterday!" The two eterari killed him, and the man 

 climbed down and eut off his head. The two heasts escaped into the bush. (Amüra. Mawâta). 



THE WOMAN WHO WAS LEFT BY HER HUSBAND IN THE BUSH WHERE A 

 MALIGNANT BEING ATTACKED HER. 



172. Manüba, a certain Geàvi man who had two wives, neglected his first wife and always 

 slept with the younger woman. „My God, he no make him along me," complained the fii'st wife, 

 „He been take me first time, he no kohori (cohabit with) me." „I no want you, I want la.st 

 woman," said Manüba, „my nn/iiio (pénis) he fast along last woman." 

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