510 Gunnar Landtman. 



quick. Yesterday tvvo girl he stop along mat, you no look. Tomorrow you go, you look two 

 banana tree, new (young) one, that's two fellow he stop inside. You pull him out, put him inside 

 mat, make him fast tight, put along canoe. You no speak along Mäbuiag man. That time you 

 come back along house, you sleep along two fellow." 



The two men got up, put their parent's skulls back into the graves. Then they awoke 

 the people and said, „You come quick, go holst him up sail!" And they all set off for Büru and 

 saw the two girls standing on the beacli. Some of the men were too impatient to wait till the 

 canoe landed, and swam ashore. The boy (it says here that it was one boy only) who had 

 spöken to his dead parents thought to himself, „No good I run quick, I savy where two girl he 

 stop." He went on shore, found the two banana trees, rolled them up in a mat, and carried 

 them to the canoe, holding them in both his arms pressed to his ehest. He did not put the 

 bananas on the platform where the people were but hid them inside the canoe. 



The other Mäbuiag man all ran about the place looking for the two girls however without 

 finding them. Then they stole a number of things, put them in the canoe, and sailed back to 

 Mäbuiag. The man with the two banana trees did not teil anybody of his find and brought 

 them on shore when everybody eise had gone away. He put them on his bed wrapped up in 

 the mat and was so excited that he could not eat and only dränk a little water. When night 

 came he opened the bundle and lay down to sleep with one banana tree on each arm. In the 

 night the girls passed out of the trees, and when the boy woke up, he tound two girls lying in 

 his arms. He was very pleased and amorous and laughed to himself. Then he slept with both 

 girls in tum. In- the morning the girls sat on his knees and he held his arms round them. His 

 friend came and called out to him, „Päna (friend), you open him door, sun he high now," but 

 he was asked to come and open the door himself. He came in and on seeing the two girls 

 exclaimed, „Oh! where you get him that girl?" and he opened his arms and embraced all three 

 of them. „You give me one girl," he begged his friend, „by-and-hy people come look, you me 

 (we are) all right." The two girls remained silent, but the man who held them said to his friend, 

 „You take that first one." The other man took the girl in his arms and called out, „All Mäbuiag 

 man, you come look!" The people came pouring in and said, „What's the matter? Oh, my 

 word! two nice girl two fellow catch him. What's way (how) he been get him?" The one boy 

 said, „First time two fellow stop along mat, other time he stop along two hanana. I been pull 

 him up, catch him." The people held a great feast. Four nights låter the girls became pregnant. 



Since Javâgi's death and his daughters' settling down in Mäbuiag, Büru Island has remained 

 uninhabited. (Gaméa, Mawåta). 



A. Javågi lived on Büru or Mangrove Island with his two daughters, and his third daughfer 

 was married to a Mäbuiag man. He swam över to Mäbuiag under exactly the same circumstances as 

 in the first version and took a bamboo knife with him by tying it on to his long hair. His daughters 

 were told that their sisler had brought the dugong meat. Two Mäbuiag men lay in wait for Javågi 

 and killed him, and his body was rccognized. The Mäbuiag people went to fetch the two girls from 

 Büru, but the latter who did not see Iheir father among the people hid themselves in mats. After 

 sleeping close to his father's skull and Consulting his spirit one of the men brought home the two 

 banana trees. He gave the one girl to his friend (Iku, Mavvätaj. 



Tom. XL VII. 



