514 Gunnar Landtman. 



fight Seréma showed her father the head, which he kept, thenceforward raising no objection to their 

 marriage. (Nåtai, Ipisia). 



C. Bâdâbâda's father gave the boy „medicine belong fight", which consisted of a small portion 

 of the eye, claw, tongue, and point of the beak of a hawk. On a war expedition against the bushmen 

 living opposite Dåru island Bädabåda killed an old man, and gave his head to a girl, Seréma, whom 

 he liked. He then received her in marriage. 



Afterwards he became wilder and wilder killing both bushmen and Kiwais, his own tribesmen. 

 When all his people ran away from him, he went and lived alone in the bush near Pàdoro, and nobody 

 knew- where he had gone. At last he was seen by some Samari people who told his friends of it, and 

 when they came and found him he went with them. After a long argument Bädabåda was persuaded 

 to return to his people; he was then an old man. (Tom, Mawâta). 



D. Bädabåda and Seréma are mentioned in the following tale, which is otherwise quite 

 différent. 



Bädabåda and Seréma liked each other, and when he slept with her he told the people of it 

 afterwards but was severely reprimanded, „No good you talk like that — woman belong you, you 

 think self." Seréma bore a child, and when shortly afterwards Bädabåda again wanted to sleep w'ith 

 her and she refused, he killed her with a stick. He blamed another man for the deed but was found 

 out by the people. A long fight ensued, at the end of which Bädabäda's father gave payment for 

 Seréma to her father, and they became friends. Låter on the two men went together to fight many 

 people, until first Bädabäda's father was killed and some time afterwards Seréma's father. (Duäba 

 Oromosapüa). 



AGIWAI WHO GAVE AWAY ANOTHER MAN'S STONE AXE. 



467. A certain Old Aiavväta man named Âgiwai once carried home a large pièce of sago 

 which belonged to his sister, and she promised him half of it as a return for the presents of méat 

 which he had often given her. The woman however ate the sago without thinking of her promise 

 till at length only a pièce as large as a bird's egg remained. igiwai thought that his sister kept 

 his share intact for him. One day he brought home a pig, part of which he distributed among 

 the people, and he sent his wife with a large pièce of méat to his sister. The woman had only 

 that small pièce of sago left, and sent it back saying, „No matter me, I been kaikai. You fellow 

 take that small one." Agiwai's wife took it to him. „What name (what is) that?" he asked her. 

 „That sago, sister he give you." „My God, that's ail!" Âgiwai thought, „he been promise me!" 

 and he let his wife and children eat it. He felt much hurt, and in the night he went av\-ay and 

 settled down with a friend of his who lived at Gtirahi (or Ùruvânimâbu). The Old Mawâta people 

 asked after him and were told why he had gone away. 



Agiwai's friend at Gürabi gave him an ample supply of sago. One day water was needed 

 in the village, and as there was no one eise to fetch .some, Âgiwai took the water-carriers and 

 went in a canoë to Kâtatai with some boys and girls. The latter went on shore to draw water, 

 but Âgiwai remained in the canoë and feil asleep there. In the meantime some Âgida (Sépe) 

 and Gémede (Wâpi) canoës came to Kâtatai on their vvay to Old Mawâta. On board one of them 



Tom. XLVII. 



