TItc Folk-Tales of thc Knvai Papiuuis. 309 



The next morning the people discovered that the boy was gone and started to look for him. 

 As none of the canoës vvere missing they concluded that he had gone away on foot, but they 

 could not find any trace of him. 



One day while maidng a garden in the bush the boy met the ateraro and thought to 

 himself, „I don't i<now, I finish now to-day, aléraro kaii<ai me!" But the monster beat the ground 

 with its tail to express its friendly disposition, and said, „You me (vve) stop, you my boy. What's 

 the matter you come here?" „Oh, wife belong brother he light me here along head, that's vvhy 

 I come," said he, „I come altogether, no more go back." And the tvvo lived together, and the 

 boy made a large garden in which he planted sugar-cane, bananas, yams, sweet potatoes, and 

 many other things. 



One day the boy thought, „Oh, I been plant him plenty kaikai; who kaikai? I want 

 make him dance." The aléraro knew a great many songs and dances, madia, niådo, gànu, bâidûo, 

 and others, and taught them to the boy. Then it caused a large dårimo (men's house) to build 

 itself; the posts and rafters eut themselves and raised themselves up, and in a short time the 

 house was ready. The human figures which were carved on the posts decorated themselves (ef. 

 p. 13), and the boy and aléraro too, decked themselves with ornaments for the dance. A number 

 of flres lighted themselves in the house, and a great quantity of food heaped itself up there of 

 its own accord. The two companions danced and beat their drums, and the carved posts sang 

 and took part in the merriment. 



The wife of the elder brother got up in the night and wondered what the noise was 

 which came trom the bush. The next day she said to her husband, „Middle night I hear plenty 

 drum he come along bush, plenty sing he come. Next night you no go sleep along dårimo, 

 you come sleep along me." Accordingly the man came and slept in the woman's house, and 

 they heard the noise. „Before I no hear that thing," thought he. „My brother he been go, I 

 no savy he been go water, he been go bush. I think that my brother he make that sing." The 

 following day he told the people what he had heard, and they decided to go and find out the 

 next night. They took with them their weapons and a supply of food. It was dark, and they 

 were guided by the sound of the dance. When they came near, the elder brother went alone to 

 look. „Oh, one man he make dance!" he said, „Oh, plenty post he make sing, hit him drum!" 

 After a while the man went up to his brother and embraced him. They sat down and talked 

 together, and the younger brother related why he had gone away. 



After that the younger brother and the aléraro continued to live in thc bush, and the 

 former was given a beautiful girl in marriage. He taught the people the dances and songs which he 

 had learnt from the aléraro. The elder brother lived with the people in the willage, but the two 

 brothers frequently visited each other. (Kåku, Ipisfa.) 



A. The younger brother did not help his elder brother to work in the garden. When the 

 yams were ripe, he went and stoie in his brother's garden. He was found out, and his sister-in-Iaw 

 Struck him with a large yam. In the night he went far away into the bush and built a house there. 

 Inside a large iree at the same place lived an ateraro who reaily was a man, and the two made friends 

 and lived together in the house. They used to beat their drums and sing every night. The elder 

 brother felt sorry for the boy. One night on hearing the drums, he went In the direction of the sound 

 thinking that it was caused by his brother. Afier penetrating a long distance into the bush he made 



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