Tlic Folk-Taks of llw Kiivat l'opiians. 44:') 



and bit him in llu l'ace. It was (uilj- when Kesdve strucis tliem \sith a pièce of uoud tliat they 

 let gu their hold and escaped. Måo was iiauled un boaid bleeding and wanted to retui-n home, 

 but after some paiiey they continued the chase. Kesave caught one turtle with bis bare hands 

 and Mäo another. When they arrived home Mâo's face and neck were terribly swollen. 



400. Immediately alter the pre\ious dream Gaméa dreamt ngain. Two nude girls with 

 well-shaped breasts came to him, and he asked them. ..Where you two fellow come?'' „Me come 

 from Kiwai, me come look round man, he no got no man along Kûvai." Gaméa had a small 

 hut and said, „\'ou go inside, I go look round man belong you." When the people returned 

 from their work, Gaméa said to them, „He got two girl here, he come from Kiwai, he look 

 round man, two tine girl." A man named Wåiba said, „Oh, woman belong me," and another 

 man named Sérége said the same thing. The two girls had come out of the hut and were 

 Standing behind Gaméa holding his hands. Wdiba and Sérége came to take the girls away, but 

 on seeing them they said, „That no Kiwai woman, that Tugére woman, he no got no ,i,nass 

 (skirt)." The two girls said, „No, me no belong Tugére, me belong Kiwai." Gaméa asked them, 

 „\Vhat for you no got no grass.'" „Me come look round man, that's why me no got grass." 

 Wåiba and Sérége took the two girls into their houses, and tiie girls became their wives and 

 put on ..grass". 



401. When the preceding dream had ttnished Gaméa looked in another direction and 

 saw a man approaching him vvhom he did not recognize. He had a great number of arrow- 

 shafts protruding from his bod\-, and a axe driven into his head. Looking round Gaméa saw 

 how the women were fleeing into the house, shouting out, „Devil (ghost) he come, he got 

 arrow." The spirit was jumping along with both his teet together roaring out, „Br-br-br!"'' 

 Gaméa asked him, „You devil?" „I man, somebody kill me." The spirit tried the doors of the 

 house, one after another, but could not get in. .At last he came for Gamen, who wanted to 

 escape but could not. He tried to crawl underneath a canoe, but it was too small to hide him, 

 and when he tried to fly he found it impossible (..my body go on top, leg he catch him ground, 

 can't lift him up"). The hands of the spirit were painted black, white and red. and just as he 

 was about to catch Gaméa's legs, the latter woke up beside himself with terror. 



402. (By Säibu, Mawäta). .\ man named .Awdgi dreamt this. Another man named 

 Audo called Awàgi to come and help him launch his canoe, and when the craft was afloat Audo 

 paddled up the Bfnatiiri river in it, He went on shore in a certain place to eut wood. and while 

 hp was occupied there a snake came crawling behind him and bit his foot. Audo got up on 

 the trunk of a tree with the snake hanging on to his foot. He called for help, and some men 

 came running: „Oh, snake there beside that man!" Audo shouted to them, „Oh, you fellow take 

 me. put me along canoe." The snake did not let go its hold, and they lifted the man into the 

 canoe with the reptile dangling from his foot. Audo was brought home and carried into his 

 house. The snake began to grow and was soon as large as a drum. The men said, „You 

 fellow pull him out that snake, open him mouth," and they tried härd but could not tear the 

 créature away. Audo took a knife and wanted to eut off the snake's head, but the knife broke. 

 N;o i. 



