The Folk-Tales of ihr Kiivnt FapmuiA. 395 



and recejved his reward for the captured heads. the Kiwais presenting him with a canoe and a 

 great quantity of sago (abbrev.). Again Öma treacherous!}' killed some bushmen, but then a number 

 of Dfrimo, Göwo, and trimisi men paid him o\x\. He was visiting Aripara village, and there his 

 his wife and little son were shot, and the rest of his companions ran away. (')ma had brought 

 only five arrows with him, and when they were finished, he too was killed. 



The old people at Mawàta often refer to this story and warn their children saying, „You 

 no go walk about too much along other place, b\-and-by \'ou finish, hushman kill you. You 

 look out (after) kaikai, feed pickaninny belong you, no walk about." (Saibu, Mawäta). 



A. (Continued from no. 307 A). In order to take revenge upon the Mawåta people for the 

 dealh of his son, Oma gave the Aripara people a beheading knife and asked them to kill any Mawäta 

 man or woman who came to their village. He gave the same order to the Giiruru, G6wo, Kunini, 

 Pàrâma, Davàre, and Paàra peoples, and they all did as they had been told e.xcept the Paåra (Sümai) 

 people who were friends of Mawäta. After a time another Mawäia man went to the Gowo people and 

 instructed them to kill Oma. At that time Oma was an old man, not strong enough to draw his 

 bow properly, and he was killed with his companions e.xcepiing a few who escaped. The Mawäta 

 people killed some Päräma, Kunini, and Daväre men in revenge of the friends they had lost. 

 (Gaméa, Mawäta). 



B. {Continued from no. 307). Seeking revenge for their children who had been abandoned 

 while shipwrecked Mfpi, Audo, and Oma went and induced certain neighbouring tribes to kil) any 

 Mawäta people they came across. The three men also ruined the Mawäta gardens by means of sorcery. 

 The SiJmai and läsa peoples alone remained friends with the Mawäta people who used to provide them 

 with stone axes. 



At lenglh the three men stopped the Hghting, removed the bane from the gardens, and used 

 good „medicine" in order to make them grow. At the same time the village of Mawäta was shifted 

 from the bush to a place near Gänarai creek, and some piles of the old buildings can still be seen on 

 the former site. (Nämai, Mawäta). 



336. Saisu of Manävete and his wife were once making sago in the bush. He left his 

 wife alone for a little, and in his absence another man came and „humbugged" her. There was 

 a fîght, and afterwards Såisu went to some bushmen living at Matåru and gave them a beheading 

 knife wrapped up in a grass petticoat belonging to his wife. He asked them to kill any man, 

 woman, or child of the other fellow's kinsfolk when they came to Matdru. Then Saisu induced 

 the offender and his friends to go to Matåru, and there they were killed. (Nåtai, Ipisîa). 



THE FIGHTS OF THE MAWÄTA, DJIBARU, SAIBAI, KUNINI, GOWO, TURITURI, AND 



OTHER PEOPLE (no. 337—338). 



337. At one time there was a great drought at Mawäta, and the people were verj' härd 



up for food. Some of them who were staying at Màbudavàne had nothing to eat except the 



fruit of a certain trea called bio, for the coconuts had all dried up. The children were crying for 



food, and one of the woinen named Atåia said to her husband Dfdi, „What name (vvhy) you sit 

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