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incident and said laughing, „No good you take ont two eye belong you. Suppose pig been kaikai 

 eye, he go some way along bush — what's way you go? Who been tell you fellow take out 

 two eye?" (Bi'ri, Ipisia). 



A. There is a short story teiling how a man used to catch fish in the same way as in the 

 previous version but the incident vvith the bird is not mentioned. (Manu, Ipisia). 



375. At Topiku, inland of Bôdji, a girl used to catch fi.sh in a small creek in the^follovv- 

 ing way. At first she eut out her sexual organs vvith a bamboo knife, placing them on the 

 shore, and this was done it seems in order not to frighten the fish when she waded out into the 

 water. Then she bailed out the creek and caught the fish. When she had finished she put her 

 genitals back in their right place. One day the genitals were stolen by a man named Gubi'amo, 

 and she coulJ not find them anx'where and wailed, 



„Giib/aiiio iiiogoniogôito oh orarlti nätiito jage jagéto. — Gubi'amo, what name (why) you 

 take him my thing, make me no good, by-and-by I dead.'' 



Gubiamo refused to return the thing to the girl's mother who had come to ask tor it, 

 and the girl died. (Menégi, Mawäta). 



376. At a place called idatovärogåbo, not far from Måbudaväne, a certain man and his 

 wife lived together, and both were nude. They spent their time working in their garden and 

 fishing. One day on seeing a dugong the man said, „Where spear? I go spear him." „You 

 make him drmuo (penis) strong," said the woman, „you spear him along ûrunio." .And the man 

 did so, singing at the same time, 



„Jajajaja (i)nlparadåja;'' this song alluded to his penis and the sexual act. 



The captured dugong was brought home, and they eut it up and cooked it. „Oh, my 

 god, you me (we) find him good fashion, spear him dugong!" the man said. They went on catching 

 dugong in the same way every day (abbrev.). One day when the man was spearing dugong in 

 this fashion a shark heard his song and came to find out what the noise was. „I stop one man 

 (alone) hère,"' the shark wondered, ,.I no see no man along me. What name (what is it) you 

 make him?" „That woman belong me, me two want kaikai fish," replied the man, „that's why 

 me com.e spear dugong." The two fought, and the shark eut him in pièces. His wife waited in 

 vain for his return. At length his spirit came to her, and then she understood what had happened, 

 saying, „Oh, that devil (spirit) belong my man!" She closed the door, set fire to the hou.se, and 

 perished in the fiâmes. (Gibûma, Mawàta). 



377. One day a certain Dåru man told his peopie that he was going to fish, but when 

 they wanted to join him he sent them back and said that he wanted to go alone. On arriving 

 at a place where there were plenty of fish he put down his spear and basket and_waded out into 

 the water. There he squatted down, and the fish and young turües thinking that his anus was 

 an opening in a stone passed into it. Then the man got up and waded ashore with his catch. 

 „Oh, this time I been find him good fashion belong catch him fish !" he exclaimed, „to-morrow 

 I come again." He filled his basket, stringed the rest of the fish, and returned home. There he 



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