506 Gunnar Landtman. 



„Tübo vdleamo àliakdklo bidjakakômee. — Mother no see me, I go reef, catch him fish." 



From the top of the tree Tubo saw some girls in the distance. The name of one of them 

 was Bibi, and he sang, 



„Oh, Bibia jåmable eh eh jåmahle eh eh Bibla jåmable. — One giri there, Bibi, I want him." 



His mother heard his voice and thought, „Mj^ God, pigeon (bird) no be-n mal<e noise 

 lil<e that before. I don't l<novv vvhere that pigeon he come from, he sing out there from on top 

 tree." Tubo gave the mother the fish and said, „Fish there, you come cootc him." „Oh, Tiibo, 

 vvhere you find him that fish.?" „Mother, he come from long vvay." The mother prepared the 

 fish, and they ate it. 



In the morning Bibi went to her garden, and Tiibo was carried to the reef as the day 

 before and caught fish (abbrev.). He sang in the tree on his way back, and one of the girls 

 looked up and said, „Who that make noise?" „My name Tubo," he answered. The tree placed 

 him dovvn close to the girl, and he gave her some of the fish. „Who you name?" he asked her. 

 „Oh, my name Bibi. You stop along who?". „Oh, me two fellow he stop, me and mother, 

 that's nobody stop alongside me two." Tubo returned home and gave his mother the rest of 

 the fish. 



Once more Tübo betook himself to the reef and caught some fish there (abbrev.). On 

 his way home he gave Bibi, the girl, a few of the fish and said to lier, „To-morrow I come 

 marry you. I no go kill fish, I come take you." He returned to his mother, ga\-e her the fish, 

 and Said, „To-morrow I no go reet, I spell. You go make him garden, I spell." 



The next morning when his mother had gone to her garden Tiibo went to the girl and 

 brought her home with all her things. He left her in his house and went to call his mother 

 saying to her, „Oh, mother, vvhat name (why) you make him too much garden? You me (we) 

 go back." They returned home, and Tübo asked his mother to go into the house. „Hallo, who 

 belong girl stop inside house?" the mother exclaimed. „Tübo, where you been take him that 

 girl?" Tübo told his mother how he had found her (abbrev.). The mother was afraid ihat the 

 girl's people would come and fight them, but Tübo said, „No, that girl he no got no people, he 

 stop one fellow (alone). Where people he come fight.'" The next day they went and fetched a 

 tame pig and some other things belonging to the girl. They killed the pig and held a feast. 

 The old vvoman said to her son, „Garden there, I come old now, garden belong you. You make 

 him along you (your) woman, I come too old, no more walk about." 



The girl had come from Fâlegi'de, and the place has not been inhabited since her time, 

 all the people living at Màsingâra. (Gibüma, Mawata). 



A. Tübo who lived alone with his mother once caused n /«--tree to lift him up, and from the 

 tree he saw a number of girls in a distance. He made the tree lower itself in order to get down 

 from it, and when it had reached the ground he covered it with part of a coconut shell. Tiibo went 

 and speared some fish which he gave the girls, and he sang, 



Ti'ibo woliamo àkalâka bidje liäikume. — That my name Tübo, me here, I see you fellow." 

 The girls all wanted him, but he only took one of them and brought her home to his mother, 

 and the three lived together. Once Tübo offended his mother, and she went away to stay in another 

 place. Tübo tried in vain to induce her to come back. Then he swallowed a feather and transformed 

 himself into a certain bird called bädii which cries out his name, „Tubo s'mgi siiit;! .'^^ Tübo's wife went 

 back to the place where the rest of the girls lived. (Iku, Mawdla). 



Tom. XLVII. 



