504 GUNNAK Lanühmax. 



The deserted woman bore a boy whom she named (,>mebar and lived with hini in the house. 

 When he grew up she made him a bow and arrows and taught him to shoot. He brought her différ- 

 ent kinds of animais which he had killed, asking her whether they were edible, and she told him which 

 were and which were not. ' Finally he shot the wild pig. One day the mother and son sailed over 

 to TlUu where they found Tibiiri. He and his first wife returned with them, but a son nf his who 

 had been born in Tütii remained ihere, for he belonged lo that place. (Ad;igi, Mawäta). 



THE BROTHER AND SISTER, AND THE WILD PIG, HAWK, AND CROCODILE. 



460. The bush at Burämu in Düdi was haunted by a fierce boar and hawk which killed 

 nnan\' people. At length everybody fled away to another place excepting a certain boy and his 

 sister who were left behind, for their parents were dead, and no one gave them a canoe for 

 crossing the Burämu creek. They dug a hole in the ground hiding there, and every night they 

 heard the noise of the two monsters who were searching for the people. At daytime the boy 

 and girl worked in their garden. Desiring to kill the boar and hawk the boy one day dug up 

 the skulls of his parents, for he wanted advice from the two spirits. He lay down to sleep close 

 to the skulls, and keeping a stout stick in readiness he said, „Mother, father, suppose you two 

 give me good talk what I make him along two fellow — all l'ight. Suppose you no give me 

 good road, I break head belong you two fellow." In the night the two spirits came and instructed 

 him how to make a bow and arrows. He should shoot the pig, set fire to an empty house, 

 and burn the carcass in the fiâmes. Then he should pass intn a trumpet-shell with his weapons. 

 and the skull would tly with him to the top of the tree enabling him to shoot the hawk. The 

 bird should be burnt in another empty house. Lastly he should kill a certain ferocious crocodile 

 (this animal has not been mentioned before) by passing into its belly and lighting a fire there. 

 The crocodile too should be burnt in a house. The boy did as he had been told in the dream 

 (abbrev.). 



After the three monsters were dead the boy and girl built a house to live in. One day 

 the boy happened to see his sister naked and in spite of her protestation induced her to have 

 connection with him. The girl felt ashamed and wanted to go away to another place. She sum- 

 moned différent kinds of fish and animais in the sea asking them to take her away, but only the 

 dugong managed to do so. She held on to its tail, and the dugong swam away with her to 

 Kuråma. There she was received by the people, remained with them, and was married to one 

 of the men. 



The brother searched in vain for his sister. One day some Kâpukâpu men came and 

 fetched him to their home, he was adopted by f)ne of the men, and married there. (Iku, Mawäta). 



THE BROTHER AND SISTER AND THE TWO WILD BIRDS. 



461. A girl and her younger brother once lived at Häwiu near OId Mawàta. The name 

 of the girl is forgotten but the boy's name was Bébi. The brother said to his sister, „Oh, sister, 

 you me kaikai dry all day, no got no meat, to-morrow I go shoot pigeon." They slept in the 



Tom. .\IA'II. 



