400 Gunnar Landtman. 



them. „Cut him new rope belong bow. You fellovv been forget?" „No me no been forget, me 

 wild yet." It was then arrangea tiiat Båenamo should bring the Türitüri people to a certain place 

 in the biish where they should be attacked by the Mawåta men. 



The next day Bâenâmo called upon the Türitüri, G(nvo, and Kunini people to go and fight 

 the Mawåta people, and the latter lay in ambush for them at the appointed place. Bâenâmo 

 marched first, and at the root of a certain neére tree he saw the mark which had been put there 

 by the Mawäta people to let him know that ihey were ready. On seeing the mark he drew a 

 little aside. Two Mawåta men named Kémädu and Kérai let fly their arrows first, and the former 

 hit a Türitüri man behind the ear. The Türitüri people and Bâenâmo vvith them fled but many 

 of them were killed, and their heads were eut off. The Mawåta men showed the heads from a 

 distance to the Türitüri people and called out to them, „Bush and outside (the bushmen and 

 Türitüri people), what name (what) you been do before, I clear him now. How much you been 

 kill, I got more now." Another night Bâenâmo came to Mawåta and received payment for 

 his services. 



The feud was continued, and the Mawåta people who had regained their strength killed 

 the Türitüri people one after another. The latter whc) had originally lived together with the 

 Mawåta people shifted their village further and further away from Mawåta. The war lasted up 

 to the time of the present generation. There was very little prospect of a settlement, for many 

 men did not content themselves with merely avenging the death of their friends but said, „No 

 matter I been kill one man already, I went kiU other one, go same place again, kill him." When 

 the missionaries arrived, they tried in vain to stop the fighting, said the narrator, but the govern- 

 ment had a stronger influence in that respect. (Nâmai, Mawåta). 



THE FIGHT BETWEEN MAWÅTA AND TURITURI. 



•339. (Continued from no. 334). Mogübi had been killed by the Türitüri people, and his 

 kinsfolk at Mawåta were anxious to take revenge. Some Mawåta people headed by Ydnga, who 

 belonged to Mogübi's family, were once collecting coconuts when thej' encountered a Türitüri 

 party. Yànga sent some women and boys to get help from Mawåta, and the people in the 

 village sounded their trumpet-shells and called out, „Türitüri man make fight now, you me (we) 

 go!" Gäribu was the first to run and help his k'nsman Yânga. The two pursued a certain 

 Türitüri man named Irigi, trying to kill him. Irigi's brother W.iiru, who was hiding in the bush, 

 saw his brother's danger and drawing his bow shot Gäribu in the temple and brought him down. 

 As Yânga turned towards the fallen man, Wâiru let fly another arrow and hit him in the side, 

 and Yânga too feil. Dâuba, Gâribu's brother, came to the rescue but Wâiru shot him from the 

 bush hitting his foot. After that Wâiru and Irigi ran away. 



The three wounded men were carried home to Mawåta, and the people scolded them for 

 starting the fight prematurely, before the bulk of the warriors had arrived. A bone-headed arrow 

 had penetrated Gâribu's skull, and as the point had broken, it could not be dravvn out, and he 

 died, but Yânga and Dâuba survived. 



Tom. XL V 11. 



