The Folk-Taks of llie Kiwoi Pafmans. 401 



Some time aftervvards a great Mawata party went to take revenge, but they found the 

 Türitüri village deserted, so they burnt dovvn the houses and brought a quantity of booty home. 

 Gâribu's people still brooded revenge. „Me fellovv want pay back before me can sleep good," 

 said they, „me vvake all time." They vvanted one man to fall on the Türitüri side as well. One 

 day they went to attack Türitüri but met a number of the enemy on the beach marching 

 against Mawdta. After some shooting on both sides the Türitüri men fled into the bush. 



Then a man named Madâvi and some friends of his determined to go and find out where 

 the Türitüri people were encamped after they left their village. They paddled some distance up 

 the river and then penetrated into the bush looking round ail the time. At last they saw some 

 Türitüri people, and following them discovered their camp. The Türitüri people were afraid of 

 revenge and therefore Wâira and his clan were left to sleep alone at one end of the camp. After 

 watching the enemy for a while the scouts returned home, and the next night a few men went 

 to try a surprise attack. Only seven men took part, lest the Türitüri people should hear them 

 and run away. 



The seven started off in the afternoon, and at sundown they sat dovvn to rest thinking 

 to themselves, „Let them fellovv sleep first." During the night they resumed the march, and 

 when they came to the enemy's camp they stuck some pièces of ^?-tree skin on their bone-headed 

 arrows and lighted them to see their way. They perceived the forms of the sleeping enemy, 

 and each of them chose one for a target: „That man belong me — that man belong me." All 

 at once they let their arrows fly, and „arrow he go inside, body blow him out flre". Gabia shot 

 Wåiru in the stomach and the arrow-head penetrated at his throat, and he died on the spot with 

 his intestines frightfully torn. Ana's arrow hit Sisa in the back, and the point came out on the 

 inside of the hip-bone. Gubüru likewise shot ïwoi through the body, and Mi'ruu hit Kérai in the 

 foot. The Türitüri people started up shrieking, „U-u-u!"' bud the attackers escaped into the 

 darkness. On their return to Mawdta they woke up the people and said, „Finish now, 

 you me (we) ail right, lay down head, no more vvake up (they could sleep peacefully 

 after that)." 



The next day a Türitüri man came down to the Binatüri river and shouted över to the 

 Mavvata side, „VVhat man you been shoot him, tvvo man he dead, they bury him ground ; tvvo 

 man he eut (bleed) him, he come all right. I learn (teach) you fellovv." 



After that peace was made. The Türitüri people said, „Side belong you fellow one man 

 fall down, side belong me fellow tvvo man fall dovvn. Finish now; next time no more fight." 

 The Türitüri people gave a woman in payment for Gdribu, and his brother married her, and 

 the idea was that in the course of time their child vvould replace Gâribu. But the Mawåta 

 people did not give any payment, as they were so much stronger than their adversarles. 



Some time afterwards Gâribu's son Nanu revived the same feud. He went to some 

 bushmen on the other side of Türitüri, gave them some payment and asked them to kill Sönai 

 and Dogäre who were Wâiru's brothers. And the two were killed by means of sorcery. Irigi, 

 the brother of the two men, found out the truth from the bushmen, and by way of revenge 

 caused Nânu's tvvo brothers, Ndsai and Kärumo, to be killed in the same fashion. Again 

 the two murders were detected, and the bushmen were asked by some Mawäla men 

 to kill îrigi. 



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