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Onéa came in the flesh and did the same thing. Kävee got up in surprise. „My God, what 

 name (what) that first time he come take bow-arrow?" she vvondered. „Same man again he come, 

 take ttiat thing." 



Onéa went to the bush and found a pig at a place called Bisusüri. The bush was very 

 dense there so he did not get a chance to shoot, but when he came to a clear place he let (ly. 

 The pig attacked him, bit his legs, and knocked him över, and Onéa's hands slid down along 

 the trunk of the tree without finding a hold. The large tusks bored a hole through his temples 

 and his side killing him. 



Onéa's dögs came and ate a part of his body, and then they returned home. There they 

 vomited up the flesh, and the people looked at it thinking, „Oh, that no meat belong kangaroo, 

 that all same skin belong man." When all the dögs had returned without their master the people 

 thought that something was wrong with Onéa. They went to look for him and finally found 

 him: „Oh, pig he been fight him now!" and they carried him home crying. The dögs had torn 

 away part of his cheek and arm, but not because they wanted to eat him, their object was to 

 bring the people a proof that their master was dead, and therefore they vomited up the flesh on 

 their arrivai home as if to say, „Father he dead now, you fellow see him." Onéa was carried 

 home and buried. 



According to another version he had been killed in revenge by some Mâsingâra men 

 uhile hunting (cf, no. 333; Nåmai, Mavvàta). 



314. Once at Mâbudavdne two dogs called Wâela and Sagâremegâmu which belonged 

 to a Mawâta man named Màpa hunted a pig in the bush of their own accord. A man named 

 Kesàve heard the barking and ran unarmed to the place where the dogs were attacking the pig. 

 The latter had taken refuge under the root of a tallen tree. Kesâve got up on the tree, jumped 

 on to the pig and landed right on its back^ holding on to it with both hands. The pig rushed 

 up and ran avvay carrying Kesâve on its back, and the man lay down passing his arms round 

 the ehest of the animal. The terrified beast forced its way through the dense shrubbery, and 

 Kesâve had to bend down not to be knocked off by the ov'erhanging branches. Trying to prevent 

 the pig from breathing he pressed in its ehest with his arms. The pig foamed at the corners of 

 its mouth and gradually reduced its pace, for it „got short wind" (shortness of breath). Kesâve 

 was afraid to let go his hold lest the pig should bite him. Finally the beast was forced to walk, 

 and then the man caught hold of its two hind legs and let himself glide down to the ground. 

 He put his knee on the pig's back, lifted up the two legs sideways and dislocated the joints by 

 breaking them upwards. The hind legs were now useless, and the pig dragged itself along on 

 the fore-legs. After resting a little Kesâve broke'the pig's head with a pièce of wood and called 

 some people to come and carry the beast home. (Kesâve, Mawâta). 



315. Once the Ki'wai people went to Sagéru to make sago. After working ail day in 

 the bush a certain great man and his wife went home to the camp in the evening. The next 

 da}' they returned to the same place to continue their work. In the meantime a large pig had 

 taken refuge under a tallen sago tree close by. It was early in the morning, and the woman 

 asked her husband to kindle a fire while she stepped up on the sago tree to defecate. The pig 

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