Tlic Folk-Tales of tlie Kiwai Papuans. 301 



for y ou corne inside my house?" he cried to the other fellow. „What for you steal my woman? 

 I go look round pig, no find nothing, you tvvo fellow steal all time. What for you no kobori (co- 

 habit with) woman? you got one woman self." He shot the other man through his temples and 

 yet another arrovv in the centre of his ehest, his wife he shot also in the same places. Then he 

 eut off their heads, put them on two head-carriers, and hung them up outside his house. 



In the morning the people got up and on seeing the tvvo heads a.sked Sivdgu, „From 

 what you kill them tuo, wife and man.'" and he told them What they had done. The people 

 said, „You right; what for that man no kohort proper wife belong him'" 



The next night Sivägu took the two heads and went on his way to another place. He felt 

 ashamed and did not want the people to see his face. After a while he came to a creek, but 

 there was no eanoe to take him över. A large crocodile was Ooating in the water. Sivâgu sent 

 one of his dogs to swim across, and it was taken by the crocodile. Then he sent one dog after 

 another and at length the whole pack on the same errand, and they were ail caught by the cro- 

 codile. When his last dog was killed Sivâgu, standing at the water's edge, speared his head from 

 above with an arrow, jumped into the water, and was caught b\' the crocodile. (Jaûpi, Mawâta). 



244. Gubiiru was a cripple living at Paàra, and he had two wives, Kéama and Sema. 

 .Some Paâra men used to steal the two women vvhenever they wanted them, night and day. Gu- 

 bûru himself could not walk about and had to stay indoors ail the time. Once a great man 

 came and told Gubiiru's father Segéra what the people were doing with his daughters-in4aw. 

 Segéra who was a great sorcerer got very angry and said, „By andby; I make you no kaikai. 

 He was an old man with no hair on his head. In order take revenge upon the people he went 

 and destroyed their gardens all över Kiwai Island. He also ruined the coconut trees, so that they 

 only bore quite small fruit without a kernel. Many people died from starvation. From Paåra, 

 Wiörubi, läsa, and other places the people went över to Sagéro on the mainland and stayed 

 there two months making sago. Then they returned, but when their supply uas exhausted, they 

 had to go back and make more. Some people went as far as Dibiri to get food. 



Segéra alone had food in his gardens. One day he said to the Paâra people, „Fault 

 belong you people. Boy belong me no can walk about — all time you humbug two wife belong 

 him. That's why I make you no good." Then he removed the bane, and the gardens again 

 began to grow, and the people started to work, eager to get food. They did not do Segéra any 

 harm, for he was a great man. (Kâku, Ipisia). 



245. Formerly there was a certain handsome boy in Kiwai who was a great favorite 

 with the girls. He liked two girls in particular and used to sleep with them every night. After a 

 time they were separately married to two other men. „Me fellow no want marry," they lamented, 

 „me like that boy; me no like that two man." 



After their marriage the two girls one day went with the other Kiwai women to catch 

 erabs. The boy went in pursuit and found one of them. He asked her to take off her grass- 

 petticoat and had connection with her. But her husband had followed the boy with his bow 

 and arrows, and catching the two in the act, he shot the boy in the back of his neck, and the 

 arrovv penetrated through his mouth. The man broke off the shaft of the arrow and went away. 

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