VI. SEXUAL LIFE 



(no. 217—232; cf. Index). 



A. MISCELLANEOUS INSTANCES 



(no. 217—227). 



217. A certain unmarried Ki'wai boy greatly desired a woman. „You no go give me 

 woman belong you.?" he asked all the married men, and they replied, „No, what for I go give 

 you? That my thing, I no go give you." To the girls he would say, „You no vvant me?" and 

 received the answer, „No, I no want you." „My God, what's the matter you no want me? 

 Thing belong you very good, I want him." Thus he pursued ail the girls. 



One evening the girls came together and asked each other, „That boy, he no been tell 

 you he want kobôri (cohabit with) you?" And they ail said, „Yes, he been tell me." The mar- 

 ried women, too, related that he had molested them in the same wa)'. Then the women arranged 

 with the girls that the latter should go out fishing the next day and take the boy with them. 



In the morning the girls made themselves ready and called out from their canoë, „Who 

 single boy he come pull canoë belong me fellovv?" The same boy offered to go with them and 

 was accepted. They landed at Gibu, and the boy was set to guard the canoë, while the girls 

 caught fish and crabs. On returning to the canoë the eldest girl took off her grass-petticoat and 

 swam in the water. The boy was asleep and did not see her, so she woke him, and he called 

 out, „Oh, where grass (petticoat) belong that girl? My God, I hungry for that thing, my God, 

 good thing!" He tried to embrace her there and then in a standing position, and she called the 

 other girls to come. They ran up to them and had ail taken off their petticoats. They threw 

 the boy down, and while the eldest sister held him in her arms, the rest took hold of a finger or 

 toe of his and put them into their vulva. „Enougii, I finish, I spell," cried the boy, but they 

 said, „Ail time you hungry tor åe (vulva), you no tired, I no give you spell." At length the 

 boy was half dead, and the girls left him, washed themselves, and put on their petticoats. Then 

 they returned home with the fish they had caught. 



Another time the boy said to some friends of his, „By and by you me go everybody, 

 suppose girl he go catch him fish. I never find thing all same before." On the appointed day 

 the boys secretly went to the place where the girls used to fish and lay in wait there, but the 

 first boy went with the girls in their canoe. The same thing happened as on the first occasion 

 (abbrev.). As the girls laid hold of the boy, putting his fingers, toes, and even nose. into their 



Tom. XLVII. 



