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answered fmu. He and his people started on the way to Gido taking with them a great quantity 

 of garden produce. The two messengers returned first and said to Kaiåsi, „All he come now," 

 and the greater number of the Sdibai people hid in the bush waiting for them. 



When Imu and his people arrived, Kdiäsi and some Säibai men went to meet them and 

 the Mavvata people were there too. Kâiâsi asked the new-comers to put their weapons dovvn 

 at the camp of the Måwäta people, vvhich they did, and then they all went to Kâiâsi's canoe. 

 In the meantime the Säibai warriors came out from the bush and seized the weapons of the 

 Djibaru men. Their unexpected appearance caused such a terror among the Mawata people that 

 the latter invoiuntarily relieved themselves and rushed away thinking that they would be killed. 

 The Säibai men tried in vain to stop them calling after them in a whisper, „Sh ! sh ! youno run 

 away, me no want kill you!'' Kâiâsi turned round and seeing the crowd thought, „Ob, all he 

 run away, Djibäru man he make out now!" He told a man named Bâira to catch hold of Imu, 

 and two other bushmen were captured in the same way. When the rest of the Djibäru people 

 saw the enemy, they threw down the food they were carrying and in a terror equal to that of 

 the Mawäta people relieved themselves also unawares. There were no means of escape. and 

 men, women. and children were killed. 



Täe ran up to fmu and såld, „You been kill my brother. You man, me man too, I do 

 all same along you." Imu answered, „Masingåra man been learn (teach) me fellow go kill you 

 (your) brother." Täe Struck him down, and his head was given to Bäira who had captured him. 

 Käwa wanted to run away, but Käiäsi said, „You no go, no more belong Djibäru. Man belong 

 you he dead, you me (we) go back Säibai now." But another man who had not captured any 

 head killed Käwa, although Käiäsi tried to stop him, and her head was eut off too. Someone 

 removed her grass petticoat, and on seeing her naked body a number of men, one after another 

 had connection with it, but they took care that the semen should not pass into her and decay 

 with her body, for that would cause some disaster to befall them, and therefore they emptied the 

 semen on the ground. Some of the people were angry with the man who had killed Käwa, for 

 she was a beautiful woman. (Nämai, Mawäta). 



338. (Continued from the preceding tale). The Mawäta people fled from Gido on their 

 way home. One man named Nänu was in advance of the others and came to Bamio where 

 three men, Hamäna, Kémésu and Kéri as well as Hamâna's wife Måiai were encamped. Ndnu 

 spent the night with them, and waking up in the darkness Mdiai saw a stränge light radiating 

 from his body. He seemed to be covered with blood which shone like fire, and the same light 

 emanated from his mouth and anus. This phenomenon forebodes the death of its bearer. It is 

 explained as the blood from his death-wound which appears as a light beforehand or, according 

 to a parallel explanatinn, it is his soul which before his actual death passed out of his body in a 

 sort of presentiment and shines in the dark. 



During the night some Mawäta people passed Bamio on their v\ ay home from Gfdo, and 

 on seeing their torches Nänu joined them. Not before morning did Måiai teil her husband of the 

 apparition she had seen, but then Nänu had gone, and Hamäna scolded his wife for not 

 having warned him. 



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