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down like that? What name (what) pickaninny belong you he kaikai? What for you no go 

 along bushman find kaikai from them feilow?" Tiien Didi got up and.decided to go and find 

 soine food. The people constructed a raft and ferried tiiemselves över to the otiier side of the 

 river; tiiey intended to go and steal in the bushmen's gardens. Some went to the gardens of the 

 Togo people and others to those of the Buturåigo and Âriki peoples. Didi determined to go and 

 try the Djibåru gardens, and he was joined by his son and another man named Gådudu as well 

 as the son of the latter named Gåige. 



Didi and his party were seen by some Màsingâra men vvho said to the Djibåru people, 

 „Me feilow see people he come from outside, I think he come steal garden." Then the Djibåru 

 and Måsingåra men went and lay in ambush in the gardens. Didi intended to go to a garden 

 belonging to a certain Djibåru friend of his named Idu, but in the darkness he missed the right 

 way and came to a garden belonging to another elan. If he had not made that mistake he would 

 have escaped the disaster which awaited him, said the narrator. When thi Mawåta men were 

 about to go back, Gåige said to Gådudu, „Father, mj- rope belong basket he no proper fastyet," 

 and Gådudu stopped and tied it up. Dîdi and his son went on meanvvhile and passed över the 

 Dûedji creek. It was there that the bushmen lay in wait, and on seeing the man and boy they 

 let fly their arrows. „Oh, father, me die now !" the boy called out and feil down dead. Di'di 

 went down also. On hearing the noise Gådudu and Gåige dropped their baskets and hid in the 

 creek up to their necks in water, and keeping thus out of sight they slowly made their vvay in 

 the same direction as the. current. After cutting off the two heads the bushmen went back 

 towards their village singing their war song and shouting with joy, „U-ti u! Oit-öu-öii /■'■ They 

 found Gâdudu's and Gage's baskets but knew that the rest of the thieves would be far away 

 after hearing all the noise. Gådudu and Gåige listened to the voices and thought, „Oh, he finish 

 now, he go back." So they came out of the water and went on towards the coast. 



On their way they found a glowing lirestick which Didi had left close to the path in 

 readiness, and they started to wail at the thought of their dead friends. After a while the spirits 

 of the two dead men put in an appearance, harassing the two Wanderers from behind and in 

 front. Now they would disappear for a moment and now try to frighten the men with their 

 hands lifted up as if ready to catch them. Gådudu said to the spirits, „I no small boy, I no 

 fright. You no man, you no come kill me, that's all you ga-mmon come." .'\t last the two 

 spirits went away for good. 



When it grew light Gådudu and Gåige recognized Di'di's footprints of the day before and 

 resumed their wail, „Oh, track belong him no more come back. He lose altogether. Pickaninny 

 too no more come," and they smeared their faces with mud. 



Gâdudu's brother Tåe was waiting at Måbudavåne and perceived Gådudu and Gåige alone 

 on the opposite bank of the river. The two signalled to him to fetch them över and showed by 

 gestures that their two companions had been shot dead. There was great lamentation when the 

 news came, and many of the people who were sitting on the ground rocked their bodies to and 

 fro in their sorrow or even rolled themselves about on the ground. 



Igu, Di'di's friend at Djibåru, guessed who had come to steal food, and on seeing the 

 body he recognized Didi at once. „Oh, my friend," he wailed, „what for you no come straight 

 along me? That fault belong you, you been go other garden steal," He broke off the shafts of 



Tom. XLVII. 



