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which was right under her got up and bit her. „You fellovv come!" the woman screemed out 

 to her husband, „pig he been catch me !" The man came but the pig looked so fierce that he 

 was frightened and called the other people to come to the rescue. They came running with 

 their weapons and started to shoot at the pig, hut no arrow penetrated its skin which was as 

 härd as stone. The pig crushed all the bones of the woman. The people had to take refuge 

 in some trees, and afler a while the pig v\ent away and they came down. They all wailed o\'er 

 the woman and carried her home where she was buried, after which a great mourning feast was 

 prepared. (Biri, Ipisfa). 



A. An Ipisi'a woman was once killed by a pig at Sagéru under the same circumstances as in 

 the first version. The pig was killed by the people and carried lo the camp where it was eut up and 

 eaten. The dead woman was placed on a burial platform, and when only the bones remained the 

 people brought them back to Ipisia and buried them there. (Dudba, Oromosapua). 



316. At Purutu a hunter once killed a pig which was carried home hanging under a 

 pole to which its legs were attached. The meat was distributed among the people, but one man 

 was neglected and received no share. He felt hurt, and in the middle of the night went out on 

 his own account to kill a pig. He wounded a pig with a bow-shot but was himself killed by 

 the enraged animal. His friends found him after a long search, and he was carried home and bu- 

 ried. There was a fight in the village, for his friends who knew why he had gone to the bush 

 accused the other people of being the cause of his death. When the fight was över, the first 

 hunter who had neglected the man when distributing his game came and gave a necklace of dog's 

 teeth in compensation for his death. (Käku, Ipisfa). 



B. VARIOUS HUNTING ADVENTURES (no. 317-321). 



317. The Kubira people used to catch birds which they distributed among their friends, 

 but a certain man was never given a bird. Once he went out to catch some on his own account. 

 He provided himself with a bio which is a long pole with a hook at the end, and- climbed up a 

 tree in which there were many nests of the suéremére bird. He hooked in the branches of the 

 tree with the bio and threw down the nests with their contents of young birds. Some of the 

 people asked him to share the birds with them, and although they had showed him little kindness 

 before, he let them have some. 



Another day he again climbed a tree wfth his bio and hooked in the branches on which 

 the birds were nesting. Once he pulled at a large branch, but it did not bend, and he lost his 

 footing and feil. He remained hanging by the bio and called out to the people, „Yoy sorry me, 

 you come up, catch hold me!" But the people who had some grudge against him did not care 

 to help him.. The man kept on calling till he was tired, and then he let go his hold and feil to 

 the ground where he was crushed to death. His friends were informed and carried him home. 

 He was buried, the people held a great kaikai, and his widow was married to another man. 

 (Bi'ri, Ipisia). 



Tom. XLVIl. 



