490 Gunnar Landtman. 



When the beard began to appear on Gani'imi's face he went again and asked the man 

 to come, but the latter said as before, „Iwant proper Ganiimi he come." „Yes, me Ganümi." 

 But the man did not believe him. 



The next time Ganümi had become oid and his hair had turned grey. „You come shore," 

 he called to the man. „You Ganümi.'"' asked the visitor, „I want proper Ganümi take me on 

 shore.-' „Yes, me Ganümi." „No, I no think j-ou Ganümi." 



At last Ganümi came in the shape of a very oid man who walked with the help of a 

 stick. This time the man followed him on shore thinking to himseif, „That's one ; proper Ganümi 

 he come." And Ganümi showed the man round. „That place belong me he white," he explained, 

 „everything white, house he white, garden he white, ground he white." He showed him another 

 part, saying, „That's place belong dark, Duo, everything dark, black. Night, dark he come that 

 side." Lastly he showed him a third place, and said, „That's belong sun, everything red, house, 

 ground, garden, everything red. .First time dark he go, behind sun he come up." 



Ganümi and the man ate together, and when they had ended their meal the former said, 

 „You look me, I go up along heaven. First time dark he go, I go behind him. Sun he go 

 behind me two fellovv," Ganümi climbed up a liolwme- or wårakdra-iytQ and from there swung 

 himseif up into the sky. He alighted on the edge of a cloud, and the whole space was 

 lighted up. 



The man looked on and thought to himseif, „Oh, true 1 been speak, moon he one man, 

 sun he one man, my friend he wrong." He did not sleep in the night but was looking at the 

 moon's place. Nothing grew there except ûny trees and bushes, for „place he too close where 

 light" (too near the light). The day began to break, but the moon still remained in the sky. 

 At last the sun rose. 



Ganümi returned home and said to the man, „You been see me, you been look me 

 proper?" „Yes, I been see you, I been see sun, I been see night." The three men, the night, 

 moon, and sun, who were living there together, went to fetch food for the man. Darkness said, 

 „That my kaikai one side, altogether black, banana, taro, umåmu (yam). That my name Duo." 

 The moon said, „Kaikai belong me here, altogether white." AU the food was of the same kind, 

 only the colour was différent. The sun .said, „Kaikai belong me altogether red. You call my 

 name Hiwi'o." 



The moon said to the man, „You wait little bit, when sundown I go on top. I make 

 fast my rope along you (your) canoe, 1 pull him canoe place belong you. That time you come 

 along house, you shake my rope, I stop, I no go. When all people he come, you show him 

 rope, 'That belong Ganümi, he been take me come." You show him kaikai too before you take 

 out that rope." 



At sundown Ganümi said to the man, „You go sit down along canoe, I make fast my 

 rope." He tied the rope to the canoe, and they set out together. At last the man reached his 

 home, and when he shook the rope Ganümi came to a halt. The people exclaimed, „That man 

 he been come, he been go look moon." The man called everybody to come and see, not forget- 

 ting the man with whom he had quarrelled. „You come see all thing 1 been bring. him," lie 

 said. „That kaikai' belong Duo, that's why he black. That kaikai belong moon, that's why he 

 white. That kaikai belong sun, that's why he red. This rope belong Ganümi, he been pull, 1 



Tom. XLVIl. 



