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named Toni tuok his belieading knife and tried to eut uff the head of a Ttiritiiri nian, and at 

 that moment he woke up. His boy said to him, ,.What. name (wiiat is it) you talk, father? „Oii, 

 I dream bad, that's why 1 talk'." 



404. (By Säibu, Mawåta). He savv two canoës sailing on the water with twn men 

 named Ânu and Balus steering. It was quite calm, but the canoës sank down of their own 

 accord. Anu and Bâlus ciimbed up on the masts, and the people were shouting on the beach. 



.Suddeniy Sdibu tbund liimself at Màbudavâne in the Company of a man named Duäne, 

 and there he saw a small house which was hanging by a rope from the sky. The wind made 

 the house whirl round and round, and in it they saw a man named Dåbu. He asked Säibu and 

 Duäne to come into the house, and they crawled in through a small opening while the house 

 was spinning- round. The v\'ind came whizzing and tossed the house round, and the men had 

 to crouch on all fours in order not to be thrown off. A man up in the air was holding the 

 rope by v\'hich the house hung, and they heard his voice saying, „That house I make him for 

 wind." A Iieavy gust of wind came and carried off the roof of the house. Säibu did not see 

 the house any more. He left Dåbu and Duäne. who sailed away in a canoe, while he him- 

 self wandered to another place. 



He found a woinan who lived in a house built all of timbei'. Underneath the house 

 there was a hole, in which she kept a pig, but no one eise knew of thc animal's existence. She 

 was VVdobe, the wife of a Maw.ita man named Näx'oi. She used to eut the hair nf men, women, 

 and children, and give it to the pig to eat. Sdibu wanted to see the pig, and at last she showed 

 it to him. The head was a skull with no skin or tlesh. the animal had two arms instead of 

 forelegs, and the skin on one side of the bod\' was like that of a cassowary. „You no go speak 

 along nobody," the woman warned .Säibu, „th.it thing he bad thing." .She closed the hole again, 

 and in order to make .Säibu keep the secret she wanted him to sleep with her. Sdibu u:as afraid, 

 but she insisted, and just as he was about to yield, his small boy woke him up. „What name 

 (why) you wake me up?" Sdibu said. ,.0h, father, I been hear you talk bad thing." 



• 405. (By Gaméa, Mawdta). He was swimming acrnss a creek. A crocodile tried to 

 cath him, but each time he jumped aside „like a water-spider". He saw the people spearing 

 dugong from platforms which they hnd built in the sea. Gaméa found himself spearing a dugong 

 which he eut up in the water. Two girl spirits came running, and as they had nothing on 

 Gaméa at firsl felt ashamed, hut thej' said, „That (is) fashion belong me fellow, me no got no 

 grass." They asked Gaméa, „\'ou give me some meat, father belong me want some meat." 

 „Who father belong you?" „My father name belong Ikiiro," the one girl said, and the other, 

 „My father name belong Isavo." Ikuro was a Mawäta man who had been killed in a fight with 

 the Päräma people, and Isävo another man who had been killed at an attack by the Togo people 

 on a party of Mawdta men. 



Gaméa gave the two girls some meat. and they returned to their fathers. The girls 

 were \'ery beautiful, „hand belong him verv fine, hair he too (very) long, two nice, fine girl, big 

 leg." .'\fter they had left, Gaméa went to play with the boys on the beach. 



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