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Jängåna came to Dörogöri in the bush where he had friends. The people there biought 

 the news of the fight to the Mawäta péople, but Jângâna waited at Dörogöri for his vvife. At 

 length she arrived, and he caught har in his arm, but she blamed him saying, „Jängåna. you no 

 strong for fight, you leave me behind."' An arrow had hit her in the small of her baclv, passing 

 right through her bcdy where it was still sticking, and she had only broken off the shaft. 



The vvounded man and woman went staggering on their way to the coast. After a while 

 she said to him, „Jängåna, better you carry me." His thigh had been pierced by an arrow, and 

 he had broken off the shaft but left the rest ot the arrow in the wound, for otherwise his leg 

 would have been too „släck" for walking. Jängåna carried his wife some distance, but then she 

 died. He made a platform of branches and placed the body on it out of reach of the pigs 

 covering it with grass and leaves. Then he struggled on tov\ards the coast and finally came to 

 his friends. Thej- were greatlj' surprised at seeing him, and he told them his adventure (abbrev.). 

 ,.By-and-by body belong wite he rotten," said he, „I bring him head and jaw. bury him along 

 beach." The people bled his leg and drew out the arrow-head. That time my leg he drj' (has 

 healed)," said Jängåna, „I go fight, pay back my people." „Oh, you stop," said the people, „we 

 go fight." „Four hundred" canoës were launched, and „eight hundred" men made ready and 

 sailed up the river to fight the bushmen. After landing they sent some scouts to reconnoitre. 

 The bushmen were celebrating their récent victory with a dance. „Oh, I go kill you," said the 

 Mawäta people, „to-morrow j'ou dead altogether. You no can see, bäidamu (shark) he here? You 

 look, all shark he come." The hostile village was surrounded, the attack was made just before 

 sunrise, and the Mawäta people raiscd their war-cry which was like the grunting roar of the wild 

 pig. The men threw aside their bows and arrows using only their stone clubs. Xeither sex 

 nor age was spared, and only a few of the enemy escaped. After the fight the Mawåta part^' 

 returned home with the captured heads, and a great feast was celebrated. The skull of Jägäna's 

 wife was brought home and buried. (Menégi, Mawäta). 



341. At the time when the narrator of this story was a small boy a certain Mäsingåra 

 man named Gäbeu and his son Üepa used to visit the Täti people bringing them some presents 

 and receiving some in return. Every time they came they also stole from the Tåti gardens. The 

 Täti people were very angry and suspected Gäbeu of the theft, and once when he came, some of 

 them laid in wait in their garden. There he was caught in the act of stealing, and the enraged 

 people shot a great number of arrows at him and Struck him with their stone clubs. The body 

 was left in the garden, but in accordance with the custom of the bushmen the Tåti people did 

 not eut off the head. Uepa fled and brought the news home. The next morning the Måsingåra 

 people set out to fight Täti, but as they felt rathei- faint-hearted they stopped midway and shot 

 off their arrows at a tree and then returned home. 



After three days Gäbeu, supposed to be dead, got up. He had once been taught bj' a 

 spirit how to heal any wound inflicted by an arrow, and accordingly ate a plant called cidrai, 

 and then the ari'ows all came out of his body of their own accord. He rubbed himself with 

 some of the juice and completely reco\-ered. Leaning on a stick he came back to Mäsingåra. 

 On seeing him the people at first thought him to be a spirit and wanted to run away, but he 

 called them back saying, „You no fright, me no devil (spirit). I been take out arrow." So they 

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