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out, „Ôho, öho!" trying to free itself from the ants, but it could do nothing, and was bitten 

 to death. 



The warlo (fish hawk) was eating a flsh in a tree without knowing that there was an 

 ant-hill in the same tree. The ants started to eat the other end of the fish and after a while 

 they marched on and attacked the hawk. In vain the bird tried to wipe them off its head, it 

 fiapped its wings and rubbed its beak against the talons. „What thing humbug me," cried the 

 hawk, „you no come, that my kaikai." The ants compelled the bird to take wing, and it flew to 

 another bird called pétoamo and complained, „What name (what is) that thing he humbug me? 

 I kaikai fish, that thing he go through fish too." The pétoamo was not at first inclined to believe 

 the hawk, but then it .said, „All right, you me (we) go look." So they flew back to the same 

 place and started to eat the fish which the hawk had just left. The ants crawled up on them 

 and little by little the birds began to rub themselves and shake their heads. „What's the matter, 

 ivario?'' the pétoamo said. „You been say 1 gammon," answered the hawk, „you think I gammon"' 

 You look that thing he come right through fish, I cannot make out what thing that." „You two 

 look out," said the frog, „by-and-by he kill you two." „Oh, he cannot kill me two, me big 

 man." Then the ants passed into the birds by their anus and bit them from the inside, and the 

 birds moved uneasily and scratched their stomachs. The frog said, „You two feel him now, 

 that thing go kill you two." „Oh, he no kill me," said the birds, „me been kaikai too much 

 fish, that's why bell he sore," and they felt great pain. „That ant he kaikai belly belong you," 

 the frog went on scornfuUy, „by-and-by he go right through, come this place where wind he 

 go all time, that sibo (heart), you fellow dead." The birds lifted and lowered their wings with 

 slow regularity, they felt that death was coming, and after a while they died together. 



The ants passed out of the two dead birds and said, „No more any thing he come close 

 to me, I kill him. That's all proper man he fight me. Anything he chuck away along bush, 

 me fellow kaikai. I no make friend along anybody, me and one side." The ants kill any 

 animal no matter its size. If the head of a dead man is eut off and placed in an ant hill, 

 all the skin and flesh will be consumed in a short time, and the skull will be left bare. (Sâibu, 

 Mawåta). 



HOW MOSQUITOES CAME. 



446. Long ago a woman was living at a place far inland from Ti'rio up the Fly river. 

 She had a house which she kept carefuUy closed, for all the mosquitoes in the world were shut 

 up there, at that time there were none in the bush or anywhere eise. Their buzz sounded as if 

 the house were full of birds. The. people were curious to know what the house contained, and 

 asked the woman, „What name (why) you shut him all time house? Man he stop inside?" 

 „No," she said evasively, „he no got no man (nobody) inside." „You burn him that house," the 

 people went on, „no good you shut him all time. I think some man he stop inside." „No, no," 

 protested the woman, „by-and-by I lose thing, that's why 1 shut him door." And she added, 

 „I no got no something inside, I nothing (for no reason) shut him door." But the people kept 

 on wondering about her and the house. 



Tora. XLVII. 



