Tlir lù)lk-Tnlci^ of tlie Kiu'ai Pupiiiiiiii. 341 



luck everj' time." The mat was put among thc other discarded things, and once more Mariinogére 

 tried his luck, this time using a bündle of firewood beautifuUy ornamenied. But again the people 

 were defeated, and the resuit was also the same when Mariinogére used a basket of crabs and 

 shellfish for the dance (abbrev.). 



Beaten on every occasion Marûnogére thought over the matter all night. In the morning 

 he sent the women to make sage and cook some nf it for him, and when the sago was brought 

 to him he swallovved the whole lump („like a cassowary") withouf breaking it up or chevving it 

 In the morning Mariinogére picked up the husk of a coconut and went and sat down on a wà- 

 rakiira-Uee foi- a natural v\ant. He was relieved of the lump of sago which was still intact, but 

 when Mariinogére looked at it he exclaimed, ,.0h. that no ne (excrément), that's pig he fall down," 

 for the sago had turned into a little pig. The animal grew very quickly,' but had no tail and 

 no hair and could not grunt. Mariinogére threw the crooked fruit-stalk of a coconut at the pig, 

 and it fastened to the animal and became its tail, and in the same way he made the hair out 

 of the fibres of the coconut-husk. The long tusks as well as the smaller teeth were made of 

 the white kernel of the coconut, and after breaking the coconut shell in two Mariinogére trans- 

 formed the two halves into the ears of the pig. The hole in a coconut-shell became the mouth 

 of the pig, and the two marks close by, its eyes. When the pig was thcre complète, Mariinogére 

 patted its cheek with his hand and said, „Oh, good fellow pig, that my boy that," and the pig 

 grunted its pleasure. Mariinogére named it böromo which is the „big (general) name" of a pig, 

 and also called it onéanogâre. savâdi. unhuii, ablri. si'sehoi and btibu. and he gave it his own name 

 too, Mariinogére. 



On leax'ing the pig Mariinogére said to it, „You sleep here. I send all people come take 

 you where I stop. You no kaikai (bite) him (them), that (they are) all brother belong you." He 

 returned home and sent his people to fetch all his dogs. The two principal dogs were named 

 Bi'gama and Wäuri. and in order tu make them fierce in fighting pigs Mariinogére gave them 

 some „medicine" consisting of parts of mosquitoes and ants as well as bones of the ôriogoniho 

 (which the people find in the bush, ef. no. 135), for these are „fighting thing". "The names of 

 the other dogs were Éamäbu, Woiworo, and Wâpasi'osi'o. 



Mariinogére sent the people in quest of the pig which he had just made, but he did not 

 teil them what kind of an animal it was, only said, „You fello\\' take that dog, you go there 

 where dog he bark. You no kill that thing, you bring him." But the people did not find the 

 right thing at first. The dogs started an éme (small iguana), which was brought to Mariinogére 

 with the question, „This one?" „No this one," he replied, „you fellow leave him same place 

 where bündle arrow (and the other things previousl\- used for the ceremonyi he stop. You fellow 

 go back, he got one thing there. by-and-by you find him." Next the people caught a large iguana 

 which they brought to Mariinogére asking him, „This one?" „No, you leave him where all thing 

 he stop. You go, another thing he stop, by-and-by you find him." In the same way the people 

 brought him a rat, wallaby, kangaroo, cassowary and éterari (monstrous wild iguana, ef. no. 2), 

 but none of these animais was the right one, so they were left with the other discarded things, 

 and Mariinogére told the hunters to try again (abbrev.). 



At last Bigama and Wäuri, the two dogs, found the pig and started barking furiously. 

 The pig grunted and moved a little, and the terrified people called Mariinogére. „No. I no can 

 N:o 1. 



