358 GuNNAK Landtman. 



The wild fowl said, „I no want stop, more better I run avvay along tree. Sundown, 

 middle night, morning time, I sing out from tree. Altogether rubbish I go kaikai, I fly on top 

 tree, ne (dung) he fall down from on top." 



The wallaby said, „I go run alongside where small bushes, I got an\' kaikai (1 can eat 

 anything). No got no house, any place I go sleep." 



The rat said, „I go alongside house, inside any kind Ihing I sleep, inside where roll up 

 banana (inside the leaves in vvhich ihe people wrap up the ripening banana bunches), inside any 

 hole I sleep. Some bone, people he chuck away, I go kaikai." 



The Wàsi people who had held the gåera festival remained in the same place, but the 

 Dabo, Büdji, Påbo, Ârakâra, Pâgara, Sânani, and other peoples withdrew after the fight to their 

 present villages. 



The gliera tree remained in the creek at Wâsi and can sometimes be seen there at low 

 water. When holding the gàera ceremony the people still place the first articles of food on the 

 gdera tree by means of the claws of a wild fowl vvhich they hold in their hands. And if a man 

 wants to deprive an enemy of his good luck in gardening he goes and steals some food from 

 the other's garden, snatching it away with the foot of a wild lovvl, and replants the stolen things 

 in his own garden. (Nâmai, Mawâta). 



A. Once while the Budji people were holding the i,w;v? ceremony, the men all went away 

 one day to hunt in ihe bush, leaving the decorated gàera tree in the village with a cripple to look 

 after it. ^ The tree thought, „What for you fellow leave me? What lor you no take out ail kaikai 

 first? Me too heavy." And it began to wriggle to and fro, till ail the wood-work broke and tell into 

 the water, and too late the guardian sounded a trumpet-shell to call the people back. Just when the 

 tree was falling the wild fowl caught a few yams in its claws crying out, „Kepoko, krr!" When the 

 people nowadays present someone with food, they place ail the things before him and then take back 

 one yam or something eise with tho foot of a wild fowl so as to avoid giving away their own good 

 luck. (Gaméa, Mawâta). 



Tom. XLVII. 



