334 Gunnar Landtman. 



„Oit, kéke kéke ke kdibar ke ngdi mttmulu kåua. — Smoke there, man he burn him bush, 

 I swim along water, go take tire." 



At last he reached Büdji. A woman lived there who was burning the bush in order to 

 make a garden. Between the thumb and index of her right hand a fire was constantly burning. ä» 

 On noticing Hawia she put out all the fiâmes in the bush, so that the stranger should not know 

 that she had any Are. „Where you come from?" she asked Hawfa on his landing. „Oh, I come 

 from Bddu." „What name (what thing) you come look?" „Oh, I come look some fire. I kill fish, 

 I no Cook him along fire." „All light," said the woman, „you sleep, to-morrow I give you some 

 Are." 



The next day the woman again began to burn the bush. Hawia said, „Come on, you me 

 (we) shake hand, I want go away." She flrst gave him her left hand, but he asked for the right 

 one and suddenly tore away the fire from her hand. Off he went and jumped into the water. 

 He swam over to Böigu singing the same song as before. On reaching Boigu he lighted a fire, 

 and as the smoke rose into the air, his mother over in Bädu said, „Oh, smoke there, my picka- 

 ninny he come back now, he got fire." Next he came to Måbuiag and lighted a similar signal, 

 and the mother taid, „Oh, he been catcii Måbuiag, smoke he come close to." Lastly he landed 

 on Bädu and told his mother, „I got fire, me two fellow kiil him fish, cook him along fire." 



The crocodile, who saw that Hawia and his mother were in possession of fire, vvent and 

 offered to give them some, pretending to show theni a kindness, but Hawia said, „No, I no want 

 take you (your) fire, I been take from other place." And he added, „You no stop shore, you 

 crocodile, you go stop water. You no man all same me (we who) stop shore." The humiliated 

 crocodile went into the water, saying, „My name alligator, all over country I go catch him man." 

 (Gibùma, Mawäta). 



A. A man named Iku lived in Måbuiag wiih his mother at a time when the people did not 

 knovv the use of hre. There was a crocodile who could speak like a man, and he had a fire but 

 would not give the people any, telling them to get it for themselves. One day Iku went to a place 

 called Skåbadara near Daväne, where lived a woman who had a fire in her hand, which he meant to 

 steal. He told his sister to keep the matter secret and promised to light a fire in Daväne for a signal, 

 if he were successful. Iku went in a canoe to Skädabara, and the woman offered him fire from the 

 bush which she was burning, but he wanted the fire which she kept in her hand and stole it e.xactly 

 as in the first version. He lighted a signal-fire in Daväne for his sister. On arriving home he gave 

 fire to all the Måbuiag people, and after a time they became used to eating cooked food. The croco- 

 dile offered them fire, but it was too late, and filled with rage the animal, who had lived on land till 

 then, took to the water. (Iku, Mawdta). 



HOW A GURURU MAN WAS TAUCHT BY A SPIRIT TO MAKE FIRE. 



275. Formerly all the people used to eat their food raw. A Giiruru (or Gliilu) man 

 once dreamt that a spirit came to him and said, „You (your) bow he got fire inside." The man 

 woke up and thought, „Fire — what name (what is) that?" He feil asleep ag;iin, and the spirit 

 returned and said, „To-morrow you try bow, rub him along vvood, eut that wood." In the 

 morning the man fetched a pièce of wood which he began to saw with his bow, using the bow- 



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