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361. Once when the Ki'wai people wenl tu fight Kubi'ra, two men named Kahûa and 

 Turûbe took part in it and brought vvith them their brother who had a bad ulcerated sore under 

 one of his teet. He could not walk by himself but was lead between his brothers. The Kivvai 

 people grumbled at the three men saying. „Whafs the matter you come? That man he got /iiiia 

 (ulcerated sore); fight he come." 



After some Kubfra people had been killed in ihe fight the Kiwais went back but v\ere 

 pursued by the enemy. The three brothers came last and vvere overtaken by their pursuers. 

 While Kabüa kept them back with his bovv and arrows Turübe carried the crippled brother some 

 distance homeward, and then he changed place with Kabiia and the latter carried the brother. 

 Thus they slovvly retired after their friends, but at length the cripple said, „Brother, you go, you 

 no can fight." And his brothers were obliged to leave him and run after their people, and vvhen 

 they reached them at the canoës they vvailed. „Oh, tvvo fellow been leave him brother," the 

 people said, „Kubira man he kill him." And they went back to Kiwai. (Tom, Mawäta). 



362. A certain Tûritûri man named Maddvi once shot the dog of another man named 

 Àuda and roasted the meat. A friend of his named Aumådja was attracted by the smell of 

 cooking, and Madävi gave him part of the meat. Aumådja brought it to his wife and said to 

 her, „You no speak nobody, Madâ\i nie two steal that dog," but he did not teil her whose dog 

 it was. Âuda searched, in vain for his dog, and lastly concluded that it had bien killed by a 

 crocodile or snake. He returned home just when Aumâdja's wife was warming the meat on the 

 fire, and his suspicions were aroused by the peculiar smell, „Oh, that no other thing, that no 

 kangaroo," he thought, „that smell belong dog. I find him now: that no other man, that Madävi." 

 And he asked the woman, „VVhere ^ou get him that thing?" and she not knovving that he was 

 the owner of the dog told him everything. Âuda did not say a word but went into his house 

 and returning with a pièce of firewood hit her on her Shoulder. „Somebody fight me!" she 

 called out, „I dead now! Madävi, you come run now!" Another woman caught hold of Auda, 

 and there was a great commotion, and the children were so terrified that they relieved themselves 

 unintentlonally. Madävi ran up, and a great fight ensued in \\ hich many people joined. At length 

 the tumult ended, but Madävi who was still furious went into the bush and returned with some 

 „poison-medicine" which, however, the people prevented him from using. Then he and his family 

 left Türitüri and went to live in Mavväta, for he belonged to both villages. On his way he killed 

 another dog belonging to a Türitüri man, and after his wife had cooked it he invited some p30ple 

 to come and eat it with him. The storj- came nut, and on hearing it the owner of the dog 

 sent word to Madävi saying that he would come and break his head with his stone club. „Oh, 

 hat my boy," said Madävi scornfully, „I kill him to-morrow." The next day when the Türitüri 

 man arrived they made friends instead of fighting, and Madävi gave payment for the dog. The 

 other man said, „No good you steal something. You want him, you ask him; give you. No 

 good you steal." 



Novvada3's the people do not eat dogs. The reason is that the dogs quickly get out ol 

 breath when running and that they do not live long. These deficiencies make the people unwilling 

 to ent dogs. (.Salbu, Mawäta). 



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