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nearly dead with exhaustion. The two bathed, and she sent him home first, but instead of 

 following him she went to another village, thinking to herself, „No good Umurüburo make that 

 fashion along me, I wife belong him." She went to a certain man at Doröpo and said to him, 

 „I come along you, my man he make bad fashion." 



As Éei did not return her husband went to seaich for her. At length he found her 

 with the Doröpo man and wanted to take her back, but she said, „No, I finish along you. You 

 wild along that sagdna (menses), you shoot him moom. You kobåri me all night. I speak, 'I 

 you (your) wife;' you no believe (listen to) me. I finish along you." Umurübtiro had to return 

 empty-handed. (Gaméa, Mawàta). 



226. A certain unmarried woman named Obomåe lived alone at a creek called Piidemütre. 

 Once when occupied with flshing she put one of the fish into her vulva, thinking to herself, „I 

 no got no man. I want make him man this fish." Then she started to look round for a 

 husband. She found a snake in a hoUow tree and said, „I no look you, I want man. You 

 man?" The snake grinned at her with its tongue in one corner of its mouth, and the woman 

 went on and found a rat in another tree and said, „You man?" and the rat squeaked. „He no 

 got no man here," said the woman, „I good fellow woman. \'ou fellow look, I naked now, I 

 been chuck away grass (petticoat)." At length she saw a man from a tree vvhich she had 

 climbed, and his name was Dj(')ba. In his absence she went into his house and looked round. 

 „Oh, he no got no thing belong woman here," she thought, „he stop one man (alone)." Then 

 she went up to him, and he turned round and said, „You come?" „You got woman ?" she asked 

 him. „[ no got no woman." .,Anything I been try härd," she said, „I come look man. I want 

 make pickaninny now." They went into the house, and she iay down and said, „You make 

 him now," but he said, „No — by and by." After they had eaten they slept together, and the 

 woman said, „Plenty thing I been look round, I find him good thing now." They cohabited 

 every day. 



After a time the woman bore a chikl, and a dance was held tn celebrate the occasion. 

 Djôba and (Jbomàe went and settled down in aniHher place, building there a new house and 

 making new gardens, .'\fter the woman had given birth to another child her husband said, 

 „That's enough you me pickaninny." „I no oid yet, I young," she replied, „no good you speak, 

 'That's enough'; I want make him ten pickaninny." 



One day Djôba went away thinking to himself, „No good I make him ten pickaninny." 

 He decided to kil! himself, and seeing a large snake he closed his eyes and went straight on and 

 trod on it. The snake cöiled itself round him and putting its tail in at the man's mouth passed 

 it right Ihrough his body till it penetrated through the anus, and the man died, 



After a long search (Jbomàe found him at the point of death and he said, „You humbug 

 me too much, that's why I look round something kill me self. I speak, 'That's enough pickaninny'; 

 you no listen."" On her return home the woman set fire to the house and burnt herself and her 

 children to death. (Säibu, Mawäta). 



227. Såisu, a Wåboda man, v\as once occupied with splitting the trunk of a tree in 

 order to get at a certain kind of edible worms within the tree. Presently a certain Maipåni man 



Tom. XLVII. 



