286 Gunnar Landtman. 



no my time yet," replied the man. The whole house was soon ablaze, and the two were burnt 

 to death. (Amüra, Mawâta). 



A. The name of the man was Guöni, and that of the woman Båma; she lived at Mtiogido on 

 the Oriomu. He saw her nude and wanted to swim across the river, but was stopped bj' her as in 

 the first version. Then he dug up the skulls of his parents and threatened them vvith the stick if they 

 did not come to him, and the spirits told him that there were no crocodiles in the river. The nexl 

 day the man swam across the river and seized the woman. They lirst had connection outside the 

 house and then indoors, the house took flre through their carelessness, and they perished in the fiâmes. 

 (Gibùma, Mawâta). 



220. A certain unmarried man named Naderéburo lived alone in the bush on Dâru island. 

 He used to beat the posts of his house with a stick, as if they were his wives,' and called out, 

 „Oh, go on, ail woman, get up, make kaikai! Get up, I want go garden!" Then alternately he 

 would cry like a woman, „Oh, man belong me, leg he too sore, I can't go!" (cf. no. 214). 



He was overheard by a man named Oran'o who lived in the neighbourhood. „What 

 name (what) that.' Pigeon (bird) he make noise?" Oran'o wondered. One day he and his wife 

 went to fînd out what it was and saw how Naderéburo beat the posts and called out as before. 

 Oran'o and his wife returned home. There he said to his girls. „Come on, I been look one man 

 he no got no woman, that's ail he make him along gammon." He asked his girls, if they wanted 

 to marry, and the two younger ones said that they did not, but the eldest said, „Yes." Then 

 the parents dressed her in a new grass-petticoat and many ornaments and took her to Naderébu- 

 ro's abode. Naderéburo got up and said, „Who that you?" „You want I bring you one wife?" 

 Orario asked him. „Oh, you bring me that woman, I look him." Naderéburo had never seen a 

 woman before, and after looking at her he asked Oran'o to take her back.. He went nearer to 

 her and pointing at her breasts asked, „What name (what is) that thing?" „Oh, that dmo (breast), 

 belong pickaninny drink all time." „Oh, I no want him, you take him back," said Naderéburo. 

 „Belong you, I sorry you, you keep him," said Orario. Then Naderéburo went up to her, took 

 one of her breasts in his niouth, bit it, and nearly swallowed it up. „Oh, mother, father!'' the girl 

 cried, „you tell him I wife belong him, he take out teeth." But Naderéburo did not let her go. 

 Then Oran'o called out, „Oh, Dâru people, you come! Naderéburo he kaikai ànto belong my 

 girl !" The people came and Struck Naderéburo in his face, but could not compel him to open 

 his jaws. Oran'o's wife put out his ej'es, but still he held on. Then Orario called the btisdre- 

 buscre (mythical female beings, cf. no. 133) to come and help them, and they too beat Nade- 

 réburo but to no purpose. Two men named Dörodöro and DiJre put on their arm-guards, seized 

 their bows and arrows and shot Naderéburo from both sides,''' and he feil down dead. The girl 

 too was dead, and they buried her. Naderéburo they did not bury, but threw away his body. 

 (Kâiku, Mawâta). 



221. One evening, when the narrator was a boy, a certain girl at lâsa who had her 

 monthly course went to bathe, and her mother accompanied her carrying a torch. There was a 

 large crocodile in the water which knocked the girl down with its tail and then bit her in the 



Tom. XLVII. 



