364 Gunnar Landtman. 



one of them. While they were staying in Däm it happened that Iwo men from Obiri in Diidi went 

 in a diig-out canoe to catch pigs at a place close to Old Mawåta opposite Dâru. On landing there 

 they did not fasten their canoe properly, so it floated away and drifted över to Dåru. Ébogiibu seized 

 the canoe, and as it had only one outrigger he provided it with anothtr. He and his companions 

 returned to Yam in the canoe. There he procured a number of arm-shells and said to the people, 

 „That thing belong buy him canoe, mabiio (arm-shell), big thing. I come, I take him go now what 

 place that canoe he come from." 



He and his friends sailed ovcr to Dâru, and there he took Daguri on board and went on to 

 Kàtatai in search of the owner of the canoe. He asked the Kâtatai people, „That canoe he beeii float, 

 where he belong?" They could not teil, so he proceeded to Süi, and thence passing by Kiwai which 

 was uninhabited at that time, to Waboda. There the voyagers found the maker of the canoe and gave 

 him an arm-shell in payaient for it. Then foUows the épisode telling how the Wäboda man thought 

 that the arm-shell had been stolen back and killed one of the visiters, (ef. no. 295). (Säle and Sâibu, 

 Mawåta). 



B. Long ago no trees grew in Dâru, and the people fetched their firewood from another place: 

 Once a small toy canoe which belongi.'d to a certain man named Daguri and carriod a wind-rose made 

 of a coconut leaf drifted över to Yam. A Yam islander named Kenora found it and built a log-canoe 

 in order to go and see where it came from. The wind-rose directed his course as in the previous 

 versions. The first white men who came to the country, said the narrator, also used a wind-rose to 

 show them ihe right way. Kenöra and his companions saw the horiomii screens in Dâru and were 

 received by Dagiiri. A canoe floated över from the mainland to Dâru as in the previous version and 

 Kenöra took it, provided it with a wash-strake and two outriggers and sailed back in it to Yam. After 

 that a regulär communication began between the New Guinea people and the islanders in the Torres 

 straits, the former selling canoës and garden produce to the latter and receiving arm-shells, stone-a.xes, 

 harpoon handles, and dugong and turtle meat in payment. (Amiira, Mawåta). 



C. While Nâga was living in Tudu (ef. no. 53) a canoe once floated away from Sui in Düdi 

 and drifted to Tüdo. Nâga was delighted in finding a dug-out canoe and with twelve companions de 

 cided to go and see where it came from. He was the first man to use a sail made of a plaited mat 

 In Dâru he met Ébogiibu and asked him where the canoe had come from. The latter did not know 

 and then Nâga went on and met Mâiru at Kâtatai, and subsequently Hamâna at Geâvi, and Maråva at 

 Döridori, asking them the same question and receiving the same answer. At length he came to Sfnai 

 in Süi who was the owner of the canoe. Nâga gave him si.x arm-shells in payment for the canoe 

 He bought twelve canoës in Sui, and the people there summoned the east wind to carry him and his 

 companions home. (Gaméa, Mawåta). 



D. In Rep. Cambr. Anthrop. E.xped., vol. v. 48 sqq. Naga, Ihe Instriiclor of the Death- Dances. 

 Naga and Waiat performed a death-dance in Daru. They floated a small toy canoe in the sea, and it 

 sailed över to Tutu all by itself. It was found by two men named Kebra and Waier who determined 

 to go and see where it came from. They made fast two logs of wood side by side and paddled away, 

 at length arriving in Daru. There they returned the toy canoe to Naga, and he gave them a large 

 proper canoe with mat sails. The two visitors saw the death-dance and then returned to Tutu. After 

 that Naga went to Stephen Island and showed the people there how to perform the death-dance. 



Tom. XLVlI. 



