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come. I show you fellovv, I take him out (let loose) again." And he untied the rope, and with 

 a report like that ot a gun it was snatched up into the air and disappeared. All the food was 

 brought on shore from the canoe, but the people vvere afraid to touch it, saying, „Suppose me 

 kaikai me dead." „No," the man assured them, „they been say, 'That proper kaikai, you fellow 

 kaikai, no helong dead.'" And they all ate it. (Iku, Mawata). 



A. In Rep. Cambi. Anthrop. E.xp. vol. v. 11. Sun, Moon, and Night. The men of Kadau in 

 Dauar argued whether the sun, moon, and night were the same or différent. A man named Kabi went 

 to investigate and came to the place of the sun. He met the sun and was told that the sun, moon, 

 and night were différent beings. The sun and moon gave him food, and the former towed his canoe 

 home, and when Kabi shook the rope, the sun pulled it up. 



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