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boo down the creek singing, „VVäwui Sasa, ohäh, Wäwui Säsa." He was vvashed on to the 

 beach and sang, „Oh îdamâri Sâsa, oh, Idamåri Sàsa." 



idamàri heard the voice and thought, „What name (what is) that thing he sing out my 

 name? I think that pigeon (bird) he sing out. I think that pigeon he see nie, I no see that 

 pigeon. What bad pigeon he find him this place?" He ran to see vvhere the voice came from 

 and stepped över the bamboo. „Nobody here," he thought, „no wood he float, no wood he lie 

 along beach, that's all that bamboo. I don't know, somebody stop along that bamboo?" Instead 

 of going to swim, as he had intended, he remained by the bamboo. „I split him that bamboo," 

 he Said, „I think some man he stop inside." i" Whereupon he broke the bamboo open, and 

 Wäwui came out. „Eh, vvho you? where you come from?" said îdamâri. „My place there, 

 Noöradåmera. Where place belong you?" „My place here, I stop along bush. You been call 

 my name, that's why I come outside." Idamâri asked Wäwui to come to his place, but the 

 latter wanted them to go to his first, and both said, „Place belong you he no good, my place he 

 good." At length Idamâri said, „You me (we) go take kaikai along my place, by-and-bj- you 

 me go place belong you." And the two fetched food from îdamâri's garden and ate, and then 

 they went to VV'âwui's place. They found the country there so beautiful that Idamdri too decided 

 to come and live there. 



There is still a bamboo grove in the same place where long ago Wawui found his bam- 

 boo tree in which he floated down the river. (.Amura, Mawata). 



A. Damäri (also called Idamâri, Dabâri, and Idabâri) vvho lived at Nooradamera on the Bina- 

 U'iri travelled in a large bamboo wiih the tide to Wâwui's place at Iddrowdrogàbo and sang on ihe 

 vvay, „Wà-<c!ii sasa, Damåii såsa." Wäwui noticed the bamboo and heard the voice bul could not 

 make out where it came from. Damåri was floated back to his place and sang, „Dawdri iigiide röndme 

 såsa." On his ne.xt journey Damåri again saw Wdwui and inside the bamboo he bit his fingers not to 

 burst -out laughing. Wdwui kicked al the bamboo, it broke, and he found Damåri. They made 

 friends and had an argument as to who should visit the other first. They went to Damari's place at 

 Noöradåmera, and after visiting Wâwui's home at Dårowårogåbo they settled down together in the for- 

 mer place with their wives and remaincd there. They can sometimes be seen in the shape of snakes. 

 The large bamboo grows there still. (Abai, Mawåta). 



B. ANCIENT COMMUNICATION BETWEEN NEW GUINEA AND THE TORRES 

 STRAITS ISLANDS (no. 294-296; ef. Index). 



THE CANOE WHICH DRIFTED FROM DARU TO YAM. 



294. In oiden times no trees grew in Dâru only brushwood, and the tv\'o screens 

 (hôrioiiiu) of the tdera shrine which the people had erected there could be seen at a great 

 distance. The Hiamu or ancient Dâru people prepared to celebrate the ttiera ceremony, and as 

 an introduction they held a race with small toy canoës. The men were all standing in a line 

 by the vvater holding their canoës in their hands, and at a signal given with a trumpet-shell 

 they let go. Everybody ran along the beach after the racing canoës, and some pursued them in 

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