304 Gunnar Landtman. 



The next day the woman and boy went together to make sago, and after cooking a little 

 of the sago she handed it to him and said, „You like me?" „No, you got man, me no want j'ou," 

 said he. „Oh, long time me no been sleep along man, me sleep along bed belong me," she 

 complained, and then she derided him saying, „You woman, you no man!" The boy thought to 

 himself, „All right, I man," and he took the woman with him to Wiöruhi. On their way they 

 met a man, and the. boy said to him, „I take that woman go along Wiörubi place. He wild, 

 that woman. He like me, that's why I take him. You teil him proper man." 



The right husband waited and waited, but neither of the two returned. At length he 

 was told by the messenger that they had gone to Wiörubi, and he said, „To-morrow I go." 

 The next morning he seized his weapons and went to Wiörubi. There he entered the house and 

 shot the boy through the armpits, *i and finished him with his stone club. He killed his wife in 

 the same way and went home. There he told the people what he had done, and a great fight 

 ensued. After two days the fight ceased, and the man gave payment for the woman and boy 

 killed by him. (Kåku, Ipisia). 



250. At Kubfra a man once caught a large pig in a trap, and the people carried it home 

 for him. He had two wives but only gave one of them some meat. The other woman thought, 

 „What for he no give me pig? I wife belong that man." She was angry and wondered, „What 

 way me go? I go another place?" She put on a new grass petticoat, rolled up some food in a 

 small mat, took her digging stick, and went away in the night to Auti. In the morning she 

 arrived there. 



A certain man at Auti was busy digging a ditch in his garden and said to her, „Where 

 you come?" „I come along Kubira." „Where man belong you?" „Me fellow no got no man, me 

 single woman," she lied. You leave him that thing, j'ou come make small gövo (ditch)," said he. 

 The woman joined in his work, and afterwards he had connection with her. He brought her home, 

 and the Auti people wondered at the sight of her. „No good you take that woman," said they, 

 „he no single woman, that married woman." „No good you talk," said he, „you fright? I man. 

 People belong woman no give him kaikai, no give him pig. He woman belong me." 



The Kubira man searched for his wife everywhere. In the end he found her at Auti, 

 and there was a great fight. When the fray was över, he said to the Auti man, „No more fight; 

 you fellow catch that woman," (Biri Ipisfa), 



251. A certain Doröpo man .slept only with his second wife and neglected his first wife. 

 The iatter used to catch crabs and fish, cooking them for her husband, but whenever she asked 

 him to come and eat with her, he declined and had his meals with his second wife. Once when 

 he was working in the bush, she came to him and asked him, „You want me?" and he replied, 

 „No, no, I no want you." „What fur? What for you no want me?" „I no want you, I got wife. 

 Plenty man there, more better you marry other man." Then she asked him, „True, you want 

 me marry other man?" „True that, plenty single man he stop." Then she opened her petticoat' 

 and said, „You want äe (vulva) belong me, he good àe, he no stink." But the man said, „Eh, 

 clear out! I no want, I teil you finish." „Oh, you come! You think about that time me married; 



Tom. XL VII. 



