372 ' GuNNAi; Landtman. 



two nigths on the open sea, and on the foUowing day they managed to reach Umudo Island. 

 They vvere received by a Wâboda party who gave them food. At length they came back to Ipisi'a. 

 After that it was six montiis before tiie Ipisi'a people dared to sail over to Abaüra. (Bi'ri, Ipisia). 



304. Some Mavvàta people were once returning home from Mâbudavâne Walking along 

 the coast. Among them was a pregnant woman named Sowa, and when they arrived at Wâda- 

 pebéna her delivery was fast approaching. „Oh, he no got no kaikai hère, what's way (how) 

 he born him that pickaninny hère?" lamented the people. In the evening Sôwa gave birth to 

 twins, and the people determined to rest there the following day. Some of them caught fish and 

 crabs and others went to Djibâru to procure vegetable food. One of the women made a basket 

 of coconut leaves, and when the people resumed their journey Sôwa carried her two babies in 

 the basket. She did not notice that after a while one of them feil out and was left behind on 

 the beach. „Where other pickaninny he go?" she exclaimed at length on looking into the basket. 

 „Oh, you run, go look!" she called to her husband Sin'iwi. He ran back, found the baby, and 

 brought it to the mother. They put a mat underneath the two babies in the basket so as to 

 prevent them from falling out. But next day on their arrivai at Mawäta the little baby who had 

 dropped from the basket died. The parents wailed over it, and after the burial a mourning feast 

 was held. Siröwi said to his wife, „You look out (after) good that pickaninny he (who) stop." 

 (Säibu, Mawäta). 



305. The iVIawåta people once went to Kura to catch fish, and when they returned a 

 man named Adågi found that his dog had remained behind. He was sent by his mother to fetch 

 it and went back alone. At Kura he saw his dog together with five others. When he tried to 

 catch it all the dögs ran some distance away, but when he stopped and came back they followed 

 him. Then Adägi shöt an arrow at a certain large dog called Müiere, and the dog ran out on 

 the beach with the arrow dangling from its back. Müiere started to swim across the Kura creek, 

 but the current carried it a long way out of its course. Adägi swam after the dog in order to 

 recover his arrow, but he too was swept away by the current. After a while the dog reached 

 the beach on the other side, but Adägi was carried right out to the open sea. He held on to 

 his bow and bündle of arrows and tried to swim towards the beach, but the tide was too strong, 

 and he nearly got dro\vned. He tloated on the bow and arrows and swam with one hand till 

 he became tired, and then he changed hands. The sun had passed a long way on its course 

 when at last he reached the shore and lay dovvn exhausted with his face on his arms. 



Adâgi's wife, after waiting some time for her husband, came to look for him. „I no see 

 nothing there along sandbeach," she thought. „What's that come up there along water? I think 

 somebody been capsize canoe, lose him, he come swim along outside? I no savy, some pig, 

 come cassowary he swim along water?" Lastly she saw that it was a man and thought, „I go 

 back, by-and-by that man he kill me." But then Adägi called out, „You come, thafs me." She 

 came back and said, „What's way (how) you go along water, swim? Me think about you there 

 along Kura." And Adägi told her what had happened (abbrev.). His wife wailed and they 

 returned home. (Adägi, Mawäta). 



Tom. XLVII. 



