312 Gunnar Landtman. 



sister-in-law nude, and one day when the elder man went to work^ his brother and the woman 

 remained at home and the former compelled her to have connection with him. On the return 

 of her husband the woman told him what his brother had done to her. He asked her not to speak 

 to anybody and brooded revenge. ^» One day he bade his brother come and eut off the top of 

 a sago-palm as the people do some time before they feil such a tree for making sago. The 

 younger brother was sent to climb the palm by means of a long bamboo propped up against 

 the trunk of the tree. When he had reached the top, the elder brother took away the bamboo 

 and left him there saying, „That's no my fault, that's fault belong you, you do bad thing along 

 my woman." The man in the tree had stuck a shell vvithin his belt and used it for scraping a 

 passage inside the tree right to the ground. ^' He wailed to himself, 



„Dibiri tûmuato Ganâde sûrasiira sûrardro döu niarémo. — Along Di'biri bush brother 

 belong me he take away bamboo from sago tree. Ganâde come help me." 



One day a woman named Ganâde and her daughter named Sirura heard the wailing 

 and guided by the sound came to the tree. „You man?" they called out, and the man ceased 

 wailing. They went round the tree and said again, „You man?" ,Yes, I man," he replied. 

 „What name (how) you come inside that sago tree?" „I been make bad thing along brother, 

 wife belong him. I go along sago tree, brother he knock him down that bamboo. I got no 

 road come back. I take Ipa (shell), scrub .sago tree inside. I want come out. You two take 

 emda (stone axe), come eut him tree." The woman and girl fetched a stone a.xe and asked him 

 to knock at the tree so as to let them know on which side he was, and he did so. „Look out, 

 me eut him now." When they had eut the tree on the one side they said, „You come other 

 side again, me eut him other side." This done they bade him, „You look out, me split him 

 sago tree now." They split the tree, and the man came out.** „Sirura, that's my man," said 

 the rnother, but the girl protested, „No, mother, that's my man." They washed away the sago 

 which had fastened to his body and rubbed him with sweet-smelling herbs. The two women 

 took him to their house, and after the mother had resigned him to her daughter the two married. 



The man made a bow, and drawing it said, „I shoot my brother to-morrow." He went 

 and lay in wait beside the path, and when his brother came he shot two arrows through him 

 just under both the arm pits and killed him, whereupon he shot his sister-in-law in the same places, ""i 

 He eut off the two heads and brought them home. Thei'e he sat down and thought to himself, 

 „My poor brother, that's no my fault — fault belong you. You want kill me first tmie, that's 

 why I kill you." (Sâubi'ri, Ipisia). 



SONARE AND HIS SIX BLIND BROTHERS. 



260. In Kiwai there lived a man named Sonäre who had six blind brothers. One day 

 he started to buikl a house and wanted his brothers to help him, and said to them, „What's way 

 (how is it that) you fellow no can help me, no look nothing?" „That time me horn, me no see 

 nothing, no got eye for look," replied they. „We no can go up along house, by-and-by me fall 

 down." Therefore Sonàre had to build the house alone. 



Another day Sonäre said to his brothers, „Come on, you me (we) go make garden." 

 That kind work me want him," they answered, „eut him tree, work him garden; all we fright 



Tom. XLVII. 



