366 Gunnar Landtman. 



2. „Någi måutatia nagåwa Manûguntâti Någa ngåpa giiiga kubia Kiåsa påpeupa iitåi 

 sipåewa måtuisipa ntåisipäe jiilaisipa. — Någi, man belong Yam Island, Manügu, another man. 

 My father been go this way. Fair wind along läsa. More better you me (\ve) go find him good 

 canoë there, this canoë too heavj'. You me tai<e him." 



3. „0-wa, Geréa, oh, Gere'a, târqdâiba. — Oh, Geréa, me leave you now, no more see 

 you (your) face." 



4. ,„P:amasâra piamatâiba sâra jdvarkiniâ p:amaiålba jävar gaina, eh, kimae piamasâra 

 piamatâiba. — Take that canoë from Ki'wai, canoë take you me (us) go ail same pigeon (bird)." 



5. „Nâigaingâpa wârawidda wûigiatéidja kådabadingåpa Tåbiapasia Mtiria Mûria taiâna 

 Maria wâramiâda. — Come inside passage, sandbank there outside come up, wind he corne 

 straight along aft now." 



6. „Ai inupûia in inptii ngåpa djângapûia djângapiiia in ngâpa inupiiia. — Crew he look 

 that wood, he think, 'That man? that wood? No, that no man, that wood.'" 



7. „Nâgatâta iiiwzca nâgaiâla iinâwa sarâwa gini/'a hi'iibiii jabdwa. — I look Dàru back- 

 side now, turn round, look other side." (Sale and Sâibu, Mavvâta). 



A. The Dàru people headed hy their leaders Ébogûbu, Gerâmu, and Dagùri once went to 

 VVdboda where they bought a canoë and gave an arm-shcU in payaient. While Gerâmu and one of 

 the Wâboda men were in the bush the arm-shell was buried in the ground as in ihe previous ver- 

 sion, and Gerâmu accused of having stolen il was killed. The murderer eut off his finger and 

 secretly pushed his friends wiih it in order to incite them to kill the rest of the visitors. But they 

 did net obey him, and after a rain the shell was found. The Wâboda people gave a large canoë and 

 tvvo giris in compensation of Gerâmu's death, and the Dâru men chose for themselves the best canoë 

 in Wâboda after trying which was the lightest by lifting them up. The east wind was summoned, and 

 the visitors sailed away. They sang, 



„Gere täraddibo ebära. — I sail now, go home — I leave you, I sorry." 



When they came to Kâtatai and saw Dâru ahead one of the men said, „What name (what is) 



that tree stand up along Dâru?" „Oh, that djångdpu,^'- answered another. Then they made this song, 

 „Djdngapin iiii'ipi'ii iigâpa. — That djàiigapni tree me been look every time me come." 

 The Dåru people were informed of the incident in Wâboda, and they all wailed and afterwards 



hcld a mourning feast. (Gaméa, Mawâta). 



B. Some Dâru men once went to Kiwai, and one of them, t^bogdbu by name, gave an arm- 

 shell to one of the Kiwais. The ornament was buried as in the previous versions, and the Kiwai man 

 killed Ebogûbu, eut off his finger and wanted his fellow-villagers to kill all the Dâru people. Rut they 

 refused to do so, and the Dâru party returned home wailing on the way. (fku, Mawâta). 



THE HIAMU PEOPLE EMIGRATE FROM DARU TO THE TORRES STRAITS. 



296. The Gémeidai and Ågidai people time after time used to come and attack the 

 Hiamu of Dâru. Once when some Dåru people were away in Bobo Island fishing, the enemy 

 again put in an appearance and killed those who had remained at home. After cutting off the 

 heads of their victims they sounded Iheir trumpet-sheils, which awoke alarm among the Däru 



Tom. XLVII. 



