416 GnNNAK Laniitman. 



The woman left behind at Djégei wae x'isited by a number of spiritual fenialc beings, 

 and she went fishing vvith them. She cooked her food but they ate theirs raw. The next day 

 a canoë arrived from Yam in search of her, and at the sight of it the spirits retired into the 

 hush. The woman 's husband landed with the rest of the party, and she told him of her Strange 

 visitors. At his request she summoned some of the spirits, and he too saw them. When the 

 Yam islanders vvere sailing away, the spirits came out on the beach, and the people called out, 

 „Ui! man there stand up along beach?" But the woman said that they were spirits. After the 

 return of the people a mourning feast was celebrated in ^'am. (Sâibu, Mavvâta). 



FABULOUS AND MISCELLANEOUS FIGHTS (no. 359-364). 



359. On Domi'iri Island there li\'ed a \-ery strong man named Màdo, and once he 

 challenged ail the people to corne and fight him. The Sûmai people made themselves ready to 

 go and punish Mâdo and paddled over to Domfîri. They arrived just before daylight. but Mâdo 

 was awake and called out, „Who your" ,.Me corne now," they replied, „me want fight you. 

 ^'ou been sing out altogether people, you strong man." Màdo seized his bow and arrows and 

 put on his arm-guard. He shot the SiJmai leader in the leg and shouted, „You fellow look out 

 I shoot you altogether!" They fought and fought, and the people ail shot their arrows at Mâdo, 

 drawing nearer and nearer to him. Mâdo was hit in the arm and the people called out, „You 

 finish now this time, Màdo!" „No, me no linish yet," answered he and shot another Sûmai man. 

 Again he was hit, and then he called his wife and children to come and tried to limp away. The 

 Sûmai people shouted alter him, „You woman, Mâdo! You run away. you no man!" The 

 fugitives on their flight had to swim across a large swamp, and reaching the other side Mâdo 

 sounded his trumpet-shell, for some people lived therc who were friends of his. They 

 came to the rescue, and the Sûmai men retired, but Mâdo who had been wounded tvvice, was 

 obliged to lie down. After the fight Mâdo's friends said to him, „Next time you no sing out 

 altogether people come fight. You no can fight altogether man." 



360. On a hill in Måbuiag there lived a haivia (white heron) which was also a man. 

 He married a female liawia, and they had a son, who was a wellshaped boy, not a bird. One 

 day some people arrived from Bâdu and Môa, and the hawla Walking on the sand-beach invited 

 them into his house, and there he killed them ail. The Bâdu people waited in vain for the return 

 of their friends, and one day they.sailed over to Mâbuiag looking for them. „Where ail people 

 he go?" the new-comers called out to the haivia, and he replied that he had killed them. Then 

 he challenged ail the Bâdu men to come and fight him. In the night the haiv'ias little son went 

 out to defecate and was captured by the Bâdultes who carried him off vvith them. They tied 

 hiin up and placed him on a shelf over a hearth in their house lighting a large fire underneath.' 

 His skin gradually scorched, and he wriggled to and fro as the fire burnt him, and at length he 

 managed to bite off the ropes vvith which he was tied up. He feil down, rushed out through 

 the door and jumped into the sea. But while swimming away he was taken by a shark. 

 (Natal, Tpisi'a). 



Tom. XLVII. 



