422 Gunnar Landtman. 



knevv him, and the purpose for which the two women held the dance was to show him to 

 everybody: „Altogether people, you look Dâgi, Dàgi there."*^ 



A great quantity of food was distributed, and all the différent people ate in groups by 

 themselves. At sundown they began one of the dances which are peculiar to the „bushmen". 

 They sang man}' songs, one of which was the following, 



„Kånega kiede dédeode Ipa såpa dcdcode. — Night-time 1 look, man he good, plenty fine 

 thing. Daytime I look, plentj' sore he been kaikai body." 



The dance went on all night. At sunrise they killed two tame pigs and distributed the 

 meat among the différent groups of the people, and then they all went home. Dâgi and his two 

 wives returned to his abode at Sâsasâree, and there they remained. After a time the elder vvoman 

 bore a boy who was named Nûe, and the younger woman a girl. One day when the children 

 had grown up Dâgi said, „No got no people here, more better that boy and girl make him people." 

 And thev were married. 



The continuation of this tale runs into that about Nüe and the making of the first coconut 

 (ef. no. 263 B; Nâmai, Mawâta . 



A. One day long ago when the Mâsingâra people wero working in ilieir gardens close to tlie 

 village a certain man who remained at home commilted sodomy with a boy who was sleeping in one 

 of the houses. The boy's father had asked the man to do it, for that was a practice which made the 

 boys healthy and strong. The people did not want the women and children to know of it. But the 

 boy shrieked out complaining what the man was doing, and everybody heard him, the women and 

 children too. It was a very bad thing that the secret was let out to the women, and in conséquence 

 of that the ground- began to shake, a great flood rushed in from the sca, and the people were all 

 drowned. After that the water went back. 



A certain great man escaped in a canoe and went to a place called Tiimamope. There he hid 

 in a large drum. His body was covered with hair like a cassowary or a pig, and his arms were like 

 two enormous snakes. He used to steal in ihe people's gardens in the same way as in the first version. 

 He also carried away the iood which two Tätl women named Piiape and Pape had prepared for their 

 pigs. The younger sister tied up the hand and followed it to Dâgi's place. She dId not teil her elder 

 sister what she saw there, and another night she again went to D;igi, eut off his arm to an ordinary 

 length and provided the end of the stump with fingers. She shaved and ornamented his body, and Dâgi 

 was greatly surprised on awaking. The woman brought him to her sister, and he married them both. 



One day they held a dance. Dâgi beat his drum, and the women danced. He sang, 



„Bine lUlrebode åletia vdpleniale prne gå-redobo dånibepéne. — People belong me he die long time. 

 Where all people? I dance self (alone), nobody hejp me." 



After hunting in the bush Dâgi used to sing the following song on his way back in order to 

 let his wives know that he had been successful, 



„Niigii kåtnuda lialin sca gie mlàlc l'ipcra."' 



Dâgl's elder wife bore a boy who was named Nue, and his younger wife a girl who was 

 named Umeme, and when ihe children grew up they married. (Some Mâsingâra men). 



THE MAN WITH THE ENORMUUS PENIS. 



.366. A certain man named Wâple and his mother li\ed by themseK'es at a place called 

 Ebebe. His pénis was enormous, like a large snake. One day Wâple said to his mother, „No 



Tora. XLVII. 



