300 Gunnar Landtman. 



After a time Übia wanted to marry again, but at first nobody telt inclined to give him his 

 daughter, as he had killed his first vvife. Übia was a great man, and he compelled the people 

 to build him a house, make his gardens, and fetch him fish, while he himself did nothing, and 

 the people obeyed him. (N(')rima, Mavväta). 



241. A Wàboda man was once cutting down a large tree, and his wife stood close to 

 it. „You no stop close to," the man called out, but she did not go away, and when the tree 

 feil, it hit her on the head, and she was killed. He brought the news to the people, and the 

 woman was carried home and buried. Her father and mother said to him, „You pay me; you 

 pay good, he (she) good woman." (Gabiro, Ipisi'a). 



CONJUGAL INFIDELITY (no. 242-246; cf. Index, The Family). 



242. Pi'tae and Janu were two Tiiritiiri men, and the former once stole the wife of the 

 latter, Bâina by name. He saw her go to fetch water and thought to himself, „Halloo, he go fiU 

 up water; more better I go too." Whereupon he went and caught hold of her, and she called 

 out, „What name (why) you catch me?" „I want you," said he, and then he stole her. 



One day Bâina told her husband what Pi'tae had done. Janu seized his stone club, went 

 to Pi'tae's house and called out, „You come out, suppose you strong man! You steal wife be- 

 long me!" And Pi'tae hastened out with his bow and arrows and shot an iéna (bone-headed ar- 

 row) at Janu, hitting him in the thigh. Janu got hold of a sügu (bamboo-headed arrow), and as 

 he was too near to shoot, he held the arrow in his hand, using it as a spear, and ran Pi'tae 

 through with it. Pitae's belly was ripped open, his intestines ran out, and he died. Janu was 

 taken home badly wounded. His family paid for Pi'tae's death with four harpoon-handles, three 

 arm-shells, stone axes, strings of dog's teeth, shells, bundles of arrows, bows, bird's-of-paradise 

 feathers, and many other things, and in addition a girl was handed over to Pi'tae's people. For 

 Pi'tae had been a great man and required an adéquate payment. (Gamea, Mawåta). 



243. Sivägu, a certain Måsingära man, once went out in search for pigs, but he did not 

 kill a single one, for at the same time his wife was being stolen by another man. The next night 

 Sivagu again went hunting and shot a kangaroo but no pig. He brought the kangaroo home, 

 and his ■ wife prepared a meal. Sivagu invited the people to drink gdmoda, and a boy chewed 

 the gàmoda-rooi for them, and after drinking they ate. In the night Sivagu asked his wife, 

 „Another man no been steal you? I no been find him pig." „No, I no steal." „What for I no 

 get no pig?" said he and she repeated, „I no steal." He believed her. 



On another occasion Sivâgu again failed to shoot a pig for the same reason as before, 

 but his wife assured him, „I no steal." Then Sivagu thought to himself, „I want find out pro- 

 per." He called his dogs, and on seeing this, the other man thought, „Oh, Sivagu go look out 

 pig. I go house belong him, find him vvife." He went to Sivâgu's house. 



Sivagu, however, did not go hunting but returned home and saw the other fellow go into 

 his house. He went after him and found his wife and the other man sleeping together. „What 



Tom. XLVII. 



