392 Gunnar Landtman. 



Arüsa who had mounted the third platform speared a dugong but got entangled in the harpoon- 

 line and was drowned. He could not be found anywhere, and the people sailed home vvailing 

 (abbrev.). (Cf. the story of Arusa's death, no. 328). 



When the people at home heard the lament they understood that someone was dead and 

 ceased playing. On learning the news everybody began to wail, and Mipi, Arûsa's father, set 

 fire to the dårinio (men's house) and wantei to burn himself to death inside. He was a great 

 man, and therefore nobody dared say anything, although their things were burning in the 

 house. All of a sudden somebody said, „Where Mipi?" and as he could not be seen anywhere 

 they concluded that he was in the burning house, so they opened the floor from beneath and 

 managed to drag him out. „You no go lose self," said they; „you no miss that way, by-and-by 

 you die (you will die anyhow), everybody same way." The people kept on talking of the incident, 

 and taught the young men how to avoid being caught in the harpoon-line. 



Some men were afraid of Mipi and wondered what he was going to do. The leaders 

 said, „Me fellow been (try to) stop him Arüsa. From bush he come, no answer nothing. Me no 

 savy, something wrong along bush." Mfpi's wite related what had happened in the garden, and 

 then the others said, „No fault belong people; mother belong him been talk härd along garden, 

 spoil him Arüsa." 



Mipi was angry with Magübi and thought that he had prepared the steering board with 

 some „poison". „I no been make poison," Magübi protested, „what's way (how) I been make 

 poison? From my sister that boy (.Arüsa) been born." But Mipi went to Türitüri, at that time 

 situated in the bush not far from the Binatüri river, and asked the people there to kiil Magübi. 

 When the latter in his ignorance went there he was killed. 



After that Mipi went to Aripara asking the people there to kill a certain man named Oma 

 together with his wife and children. He thought that Oma had put „poison" in the harpoon-line 

 in which Arüra had been entangled. Mipi was all the time trying to trace how the „poison" 

 had reached Arüsa; „leave him Magübi now, catch him Öma," said the narrator Shortly after- 

 wards the Aripara people killed Oma, his wife, and two of his children. 



A little låter Mipi went to Togo and told the people there, „When people belong Mawäta 

 he come, you kill him altogether, man, woman, pickaninny." Mipi did not know for certain who 

 was guilty of his son's death, and therefore wanted to kill as many as possible of the people. 

 Everybody was in great terror of him. 



The Togo men asked the Djibåru men to come and kill a Mawata party at Augaromüba, 

 but a certain Djibâru man imparted this plan to a Mawdta friend of his named Hamâna, the 

 narrator's father. He hastened to warn his friends at Augaromüba, but another man named Ésue 

 laughed him out of countenance. „You look, I think to-morrow somebody cook you," Hamâna 

 replied, „I give you life, you no want. I go, to-morrow I hear another yarn." He took a certain 

 little girl named Tàbaiâni by the hand and said to her, „You belong life; you me (we) go," and 

 they returned to Mawata. 



The Mawâta people at Augaromüba were ail killed by the Togo men, and Hamâna and 

 his people were clearing away the grass in their garden when they heard the tumult of the fight. 

 „What thing I been speak yesterday he come now," said Hamâna. „People he cry, ail same wind 

 cry he come. Man he call me liar — he find him now." 



Tom. XLVIl. 



