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tied two coconut-bovvls on to his ehest and covered them vvith banana-leaves, so that they looked 

 like a woman's breasts. Then he put on a vvoman's grass petticoat, a new belt, and some fine 

 ornaments which are vvorn by women, and when Walking abroad he carried himself like a vvoman. 

 He was seen by the Pedéa boy who thought to himself, „Oh, very fine girl, more better I take 

 that girl." One day the Gebåro boy sent a friend of his to tell the Pedéa boy, „To-night vou 

 come sleep along me." „Oh, my word, fine girl!" the latter exclaimed, „I go sleep along him!" 

 In the middle of the night he went into the house of the Gebäre boy. The latter awaited him 

 and said to him in a low voice, speaking like a girl, „AU right, you come, I hère." The Pedéa 

 boy wanted to take off the grass petticoat ot the supposed girl, but the latter said, „No, no, you 

 no take that grass, you no kobJri (cohabit with) me. You me (we) sleep, you wait that time 

 you take me house belong you." The same night the Pedéa boy took him to his house, and 

 there he woke up his mother and said, „You keep my woman belong me, I bring him from 

 Gebâro." The mother spread out a new mat for them and cooked food, and after eating the 

 two slept on the same bed. hi the morning the Pedéa people brought the supposed woman ail 

 kinds of presents. The boy in disguise assumed a vvoman's ways and cooked food for the 

 people, and the father of the Pedéa boy said, „Oh, that good woman, boy belong me 

 been catch him." 



Once when the Gebâro hoy went to catch fish with the Pedéa women, there was a certain 

 very beautiful girl among them. He went aside with her, took off his disguise without her 

 seeing it, painted himself so that she should not recognize him and had connection with her. 

 Afterwards he again dressed up as a woman. The Pedéa boy brought food to his supposed wife 

 who cooked it. They went together to the bush, and there the former wanted to hâve connection 

 with the supposed woman. .'\s the latter lay down nude the boy shrunk back and exclaimed, 

 „Oh, oh, oh, what name (what is that? I been think you woman — you man!" „Oh. never 

 mind," said the other boy, „you kabôri me along nebâre (anus). I like you, thafs why 1 been 

 make fool along you." *„No, no, I no want, I Iright. More better you chuck away thing belong 

 woman. You make fool me, you make fool people belong me; you man, you got drumo (pénis)." 

 Then the other boy threw away his disguise, bathed, and went home saying, „My friend, I make 

 fool along you, I like you, that's .why I been make him." 



On his return home the Pedéa boy was asked by his mother, „You come; where woman 

 belong you.'" „Oh, mother, that's no vvoman, that's peina (friend) belong me he make fool along 

 me." The Pedéa and Gebâro people laughed for a long time at this story. (Gaméa, Mavvâta). 



A. A certain Gâima boy liked a Pagâna boy. Once the latter disguised himself in a woman's 

 gear, and the Gâima boy brought him to his home as his wife, and they were received vvith great joy. 

 The Pagâna boy joined in the women's vvork and only made his sex known when his supposed husband 

 wanted to hâve connection with him. He went back to Pagâna, and the truth came out. After a time 

 the disappointed lover married a real girl. (Biri, Ipisi'a). 



B. Once at lâsa a boy put on a woman's things and e.xcited thereby the love of a certain 

 man who used to visit him at night. He brought the supposed girl to his parent's house. Her 

 sex was discovered one day when they were together in the bush. (Tâmetâme, Ipisia). 



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