394 GuNNAi; Lanuiman. 



and had coconut trees at Yömusa or Bi'nadodo. Some Mavvåta men went and stole coconuts 

 there, and the Tiiritüri owners guessed from which village the thieves came and started a flght- 

 Yånga, Gäribu, and some other men vvho belonged to Mogübi's family were continually thinking 

 of revenge, and they were the first to use the opportunity of resuming hostilities. (Continued in 

 no. 339; Ndmai, Mawäta). 



A. Addition to tlie épisode of tlie flgtit beiweeii the Mawåta and Päråma people: Once a 

 Mawåta canoe went to Pârâma, and the people on board were killed. The Pârâma people eut off their 

 heads and the forefingers of their right hands. Then they went to Gerävi close to Kåtatai where some 

 more Mawåta people were, and producing the severed forefingers asked the Gerävi people to kill their 

 Mawåta visiters, but the Gerävi men refused to do so. On another occasion the Mawåta people took 

 revenge and killed ihree Pârâma men and women in Dâru. Once a great number of Pârâma people 

 came to Tiiritiiri, and a certain man there named Bâinamu came and informed the Mawåta people of 

 their visit. The Mawåta men all went to Tiiritiiri, and their great leader Mâinou said to the Pârâma 

 people, „You been kill four Mawåta man along Pârâma. I (we) no all same dugong, I no all same 

 turtle, what's the good you kill me? I man all same you. You, Pârâma man, you my kangaroo, I 

 shoot you now, you no go back along Pârâma." There was a great flght, and all the Pârâma people 

 at Türitüri were killed. (Gaméa, Mawåta). 



335. (Continued from no. 307 B. Some Mawåta people, the son of Öma included, 

 were shipwrecked and abandoned by the other Mawåta canoës, and afterwards they were killed 

 by the Dâru people). 



After finding out the truth Öma went to his friend Gäbeu at Måsingara and planned with 

 him to kill a certain Päråma boy named Kftuåre who was living at Mawåta. Once when the 

 Mawäta people were fishing in a swamp Öma and Gäbeou shot Kituäre without the rest of the 

 people knowing of it. The body was carried home attached to a large bamboo pole and buried. 

 The Mawåta people were argry, and Mipi who was Kîtuâre's guardian went and shot Öma's 

 wife Miirue. 



Öma, however, had not yet satisfied his désire for revenge upon his son's murderers, so 

 he went and summoned the Kiwais to fight the Däru people. Early one morning the Däru village 

 was surrounded. Alarm was given by a man who happened to come out from one of the houses 

 to defecate,!* but his people did not believe him, so he ran away by himself and was almost the 

 only one who escaped. Öma was the first to rush into one of the houses. He caught the wrists 

 of one Däru man and vvoman in a powerful grip with his one hand and brained them both with 

 his stqne club. There was a great bloodshed, and not only the people were killed but the dögs 

 and pigs as well, and the houses were burnt down and the canoës destroyed. The Kiwais returned 

 home with a rieh booty, and Öma who had not taken any of the heads of the people he had 

 killed promised to come to them in a month's time to receive payment for the heads. 



One day a bushman came to see Öma, and the latter said to him, „You go see triend 

 belong you inside house. You go sit down, by-and-hy I come behind." The bushman went into 

 the house, and a Mawäta man handed him a bamboo pipe to smoke. Presently Öma entered, 

 carrying his stone club and hit the bushman on the back of his neck, andthe man „he no smoke, 

 head he fall down, he dead," and Öma eut off his head. Shortly afterwards Öma went to Kiwai 



T.im. XLVU. 



