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their return the people called out, „Oh. that vvoman he all right, nice now. He heen eut him 

 now, that's why me fellow send you two go there." And the two were married. 



Another day Kakinåbo went to svvim in the creek. While she was in the vvater the 

 same large ball which was floating about there followed her closely wherever she went. She 

 thought that it was a fish and called to Barikäbo^ „More better you corne close along water, 

 ever\' time one good fellow fish come swim." Barikåbo fetched his gonéa (conical fish-trap) and 

 tried to catch the supposed fish, for neither of them knew what it really was. Barikåbo tipped 

 the gonéa över the fish, but the ball broke its way through the basket-work of the trap and 

 escaped. The woman scolded him for his clumsiness, and he tried to think of a better device 

 for catching the fish. 



The foUowing day Barikåbo provided himself with a bow and three-pronged arrow, and 

 he and his wite went together to the creek. When the ball came fioating along Barikåbo shot 

 his arrow at it, and one of the points which was made of härd pdruu (the surface wood of a 

 palm) penetrated the shell, while the two others which were made of /levdgore-wood broke off. *' 

 Barikåbo picked up the thing and looked at it: „What name (what is) this one?" he exclaimed, 

 „he no fish. More better I chuck him away." And he threw it away into the brushwood near 

 by. The man and woman did not know that they had „made" that thing. 



One night the ball came to Barikåbo in a dream and said, „Father, you been chuck me 

 away, you been forget. You go look what place you been chuck me. That tree he stop that 

 place, that me." Barikåbo woke up and thought, „Oh, that thing I chuck away, he come along 

 dream." When daylight came and the birds began to cry, he called his dögs and went out. 

 But instead of looking for pigs he went straight to the place indicated in the dream. There stood 

 a large coconut tree. Plenty of nuts were hanging on the tree, and manj' dry ones were lying 

 on the ground. Barikåbo thought, „I been chuck away that thing, I think he no fish, he no good. 

 That (is) good fellow thing, I been forget all about that good thing." 



He husked one of the nuts, broke it open, and by way of triai gave a pièce of the kernel 

 to one dog which he did not care about, not one of the good dogs. But the good dogs ail 

 sprang up, bit the other, and snatched away the coconut which they devoured. They licked 

 their lips and whined for more. The man waited a little, but as nothing happened, he thought, 

 „Oh, that good kaikai," and he broke off a small pièce and tasted it himself, and it was nice. 



Barikåbo picked up one dry and one green coconut and brought them home in a tem- 

 porary basked (kamiisu). He did not speak to anybod}' but hung up the basket over his sleeping 

 place, thinking, „More better I sleep first, I wait what time that dog he die, what time I lose him 

 life. Suppose to-morrow I life, I learn (teach) him people." In the night he dreamt that the 

 coconut came and said, „Father, you no fright. I been come before, you find me again. That's 

 my name coconut, that's mj' name ôi, that's my name gâgama (cf. no. 4)," and it went through 

 ail its names, seven in number. Then it continued' „Me fellow half belong kaikai, half belong 

 drink water. You go learn (teach) him people. Me no belong bad thing, me belong make life; 

 man he hungry he kaikai me, make everybody grow." 



Barikåbo got up and felt very glad. He produced the coconuts and showed them to the 

 people, saying, „You fellow see him hère, name belong coconut, oi. He good kaikai, you take 

 out skin, everybody kaikai. Tomorrow you me (we) go take plenty coconut." 



Tom. XLVII. 



