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children, saying to them, „Come on, you me (we) go Ddru make sago. I been take him meat 

 insida mat, cook him along sago," and by that he meant Amurabàri. On reaching Dåru he and 

 the women went into the bush and began to make sago. 



In the meantime Amurabäri woke up and tried in vain to come out of the mat. Pain'o's 

 children were playing near him, and he said to them, „You take him out all that thing here." 

 The children opened the mat, and he came out. „What place that?" he vvondered, „oh, that's 

 Dâru." Then he asked the children, „Where father, mother belong you?" „He been go bush 

 make sago, he vvant kill \'ou." „Where that stone club belong you fellovv father?" Amurabäri 

 next asked. „Here, stone club here, üerc (beheading knife) toö," answered they. Thereupon he 

 seized the stone club and killed all the children, cutting off their heads and putting them on the 

 head-carriers. Then he ripped open their bodies and threw their intestines about the place. Finally 

 he hoisted the sail, made the canoe ready for a speedy departure, and sat down to await Pain'o's 

 arrivai. 



Ät length Pairfo came, and on seeing the intestines and excréments of his children he 

 said, „Poor fellow my pickaninny! Amurabäri been kill him all my pickaninny finish now!" 

 Amurabäri called out, „Pairio, you think I belong kaikai? What name (vvhy) you make me all 

 same? I all same you; you man, I man too." And he showed him one of the heads and said, 

 „What name (what is) that here?" Then he sailed au'ay in the canoe and returned to Mibu. 

 (Menégi, Mawäta). 



BADABADA, THE YOUNG HERO. 



466. Two Lisa women who were pregnant both gave birth to a child on the same day. 

 Some women came to see one of them and asked her, „Pickaninny he come up?" „Yes, me 

 got boy," and she asked the visitors, „Other woman he got hoy, girl!" „Oh, he got girl." 



The two children grew up, and the name of the boy was Bâdabàda and that of the girl 

 Seréma. When they were bigger, they used to play on the beach. The girl was alraid of the 

 boy and ran away whenever he came near, for she said, „Bådabäda, you no good come close, 

 you no boy, \'ou all same oboro (ghost)." The children kept on playing, but when Bâdabàda 

 came near, Seréma was frightened. 



Once the people were preparing to go and fight another tribe, and when the canoës 

 were ready, they sailed off and made their way up the Oriömu river. One of the leading men 

 said, „Bädabäda, you stop along canoe, look out canoe." Seréma, too, stayed with the canoës, 

 and all the others went into the bush. It was just before dawn, and everybody in the enemy's 

 village was asleep. 



Instead of remaining at the canoës Bâdabàda followed the others without anybody knowing. 

 He had a stone club, a small beheading knife, and a gdraöro, (sling for carrjdng a head). While 

 the others were resting, Bâdabàda went ahead and got in front of all. 



A very old man was sleeping close to the door in one of the enemy's houses. Bddabåda 

 crept in, caught hold of him with one hand, and broke his head with a blow from his stone 

 club. He puUed the body outside and took it underneath the house, where he eut off the head 



Tom X I-VI I. 



