414 _ Gunnar Landtman. 



Brooding revenge the Kubira men made nevv bows and bow-strings and said to each 

 other, „AU right, you man? . I go along that place fight." The canoës were launched. and the 

 vvarriors paddled away lovvärds Åbo. At sundown they slackened speed so as to arrive at the 

 proper time for the attack, and without sleeping in the night they feil över the Åbo village fighting 

 with stone clubs and pièces of vvood. There was a great bloodshed, men, vvomen and children 

 being killed indiscriminately, and their heads were taken. After the fight the victors loaded their 

 canoës vvith food and all kinds of things belonging to the Åbo people, such as bows and arrous, 

 women's petticoats, stone clubs, and belts. Then they burnt the houses and retui-ned home. 

 Since that time there are no people at Åbo, all having been killed. (Mamatiia, Sûmai). 



THE IVIDE PEOPLE AND THE BUSHMEN. 



356. Ûtoi, an Ivide man, and his wife (jnce eut down a large sago palm belonging to 

 some bushmen, and the woman pounded the sago. Towards evening they went home, and in 

 their absence the bushmen discovered that somebody had felled their tree. They were furious 

 and lay in wait for the intruders to retui'n. In the morning Utoi and his wife came back, and 

 the bushman lying in the grass shot tlieir arrows at them and killed them both. They eut off 

 the heads and carried the bodies to their camp where they cooked and ate them. 



Ùtoi's father and mothér waited in vain for him and his wife to corne back. After a day 

 the people came to search for them and found the place where the tvvo had been killed, and 

 everybody wailed. Then they collected a great quantitj- of food and held a mourning feast. 



Ütoi's parents asked the people to go and kiU one bushman in revenge, and this they 

 did, bringing home his head. The fight was renewed over and over again, for both sides had 

 in turn to take re\'enge for their slain friends, and each time the attackers captui'ed two or three 

 heads of the foe. 



One night a bushman came to îx'ide bringing his wife with him, for he wanted to make 

 peace. He met an Ivid'i man, and catching hold of his urists said, „You no sing out, you me 

 (we) two friend novv." Then he asked his wife to go and sleep with the Ivide man, and the 

 latter let his wife sleep with the bushman. The Ivide man called his people, „You fellow come, 

 one bushman hère, no more light, make friend now." The people came, and the leaders ail had 

 connection with the bushwoman, and her husband slept with the îvide women. Thus peace was 

 concluded. (Epére, Ipisia). 



THE EDAME AND LOPE PEOPLES AND THEIR FIGHTS. 



357. Once during a greai festival at Edâme the men who vveie dancing .said to some 

 widowed women who were looking on, ,,You fellow sit Jown, look, by-and-by 1 take you fellow." 

 But the widows did not want to marr_y again and ,.swore" at the people. The men feit so 

 outraged that they went to L(')pe, a neighbouring village, and asked the people there to kill them 

 saying, ,.Me come make him .something. More better you make me dead altogether; woman 



Tom. XLVII. 



