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.and his friend tried hard to défend him, shooting all the while. ..Too much people, he beat me 

 now," he cried. „All light, you leave me," said the Wiöiuhi man, ..wife and pickaninny belong 

 me I give you. Von leave place belong you, Mao, come stop place belong me, VViörubi, take 

 wife balong me and wife belong you." The Abo people came on, and the Mao man ran away, 

 and he could hear how they .Struck his friend uith their stone clubs. When their victim was 

 dead, the Abo people retired with his head. The Mao man overtook his friends and told them 

 what had happened, and they wailed. The next da}- they went back to fight again saying, „No 

 good body belong friend he stink. By-and-by ghost belong friend he watch me along (in the 

 shape of ai snake, along pigeon (bird), he think, 'Oh, friend he mi come paj' back.'" The fight 

 was renewed, and the Mao man kicked many people to death with his leg; he went into the 

 two Abo men's houses killing the inmates, and the young warriors followed him cutting off 

 the heads. The head of the VViörubi man was recovered and put back on his Shoulders, and 

 the people placed some heads of the slain Abo men on his ehest. The friend of the dead man 

 said, „Piiiia (friend) _vou all right now. ^■nu no stink long Abo, I been take you back along 

 proper place, bury you there." And the W'i'Wubi man was interred at home. 



A. A certain Sagéru man used to bring home cassowaries to his wife every day, and she ate 

 the eggs. One day she bore a boy wiih a cassowary's leg. When the boy grew up he used to hunt 

 pigs by kicking them to death. One day when he was stealing fruit in a garden he was caught 

 because of his peculiar footprints. One of his friends made a similar leg for himself but once in a 

 fight the artificial leg broke off, the man was killed, and his body was lefi to decay. 



B. A Dvidi woman who fed on cassowary meat once gave birth to a boy wlih one leg like 

 that of a cassowary. In every fight he used to kill people by kicking them. Another man wanted to 

 copy him and provided himself wiih a cassowary's leg, but once in a fight he got stuck in a swamp, 

 the leg broke off, and he was killed. 



C. A Düdi woman bore a boy with one leg like that of a cassowary, for her husband had 

 always givea her cassowaries to eat. At the same time another woman gave birth to an ordinary, 

 well-shaped boy, and the two chiidren grew up and became great friends. They used to hunt togeiher 

 and brought the animais killed by Ihem to their parents, asking them whether they were edible. * They 

 always remained together. (The incident of the broken leg is not mentioned; Nåmai, Mawâta). 



THE MAN ON WHOSE HEAD A TREE WAS GROWING. 



370. Once when a certain låsa man went to the bush, the dung of a hornbill which 

 contained the seed of an dtn'o tree fall on to his head. The seed started to grow in his long 

 hair and developed in one day into a tree, one fathom long. ' His friends did not know how 

 the tree had come to grow there. The roots of the tree entangled the upper part of his body, 

 and some fibres penetrated into his ears and nose, so he was obligea to eut them off a little, while 

 others covered his eyes, and forced_ him tu eut thern too. While he was in the open, a great 

 number of birds perched in the tree, and on entering the house he very cautiously brought the 

 birds with him, so that they could be killed, and the people ate them. He frequently repeated 

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