516 Gunnar Landtman. 



a ball made of the wöngai tree and the children who were playing by themselves a little distance off 

 used a certain härd fruit for a ball. While running about a certain boy and girl feil at the same 

 time, and he happened to see her vvith her grass petticoat aside in a bad fashion. Presently the 

 boy began to cry, asking for some certain red thing, „Father, mother, I vvant that käka (ved 

 thing)." The parents did not know vvhat he meant and offered him various kinds of red flovvers, 

 but he did not want them and kept on crying. '*'• Some vvoman said, „Two fellow he fall dovvn 

 together. That thing belong girl he red, boy been see him, that's why he cry." The mother 

 vvhipped the boy saying, „What name (why) you cry?" They brought in the little girl who had 

 fallen with him, and then the boy ceased crying. His parents were disgusted and said, „No 

 good two fellow stop, more better he go other place." 



A large canoe was launched, and the boy was given food by his people and the girl b}' 

 hers. Both of them were too small to understand anything about the things for which the boy 

 had been crying, and therefore the people felt ashamed on their behalf and sent them away. The 

 boy was placed in the stern of the canoe, and the girl in the bow, and then their craft was 

 shoved off. The girl had a fire-stick, but the boy s parents had forgotten to provide him with 

 one. „You two no more come back," said one of the leading men to them. „You go along Island 

 belong Ôrogi'ri. You two make garden, make pickaninny belong you, no more come back." The 

 north-west wind carried the boy and girl further and further awaj', and both cried. After a 

 while the girl roasted a banana on her fire, but the boy had to eat his ravv. The girl did not 

 say anything, and when the boy spöke to her, she did not answer. They kept on sailing, and 

 after a long time the^' arrived at Orogiri and were stranded on the beach. The boy went on 

 shore, but the girl remained in the canoe. On the other side of the Island there lived a woman 

 and her daughter, but they did not know of the arrivai of the canoe. 



The boj' built a small hut on the shore and said to the girl, „You take thing belong you, 

 come here." But she remained silent and did not come to him. After a while she went on shore 

 and put up a mat for a shelter some distance offt There she cooked her food but as soon as it 

 was done she extinguished the tire with water to prevent the boy from obtaining some and only 

 kept one fire-stick for herself. Both began to make a garden, but the boy could not get rid of 

 the grass as he had no fire, and when he asked the girl to lend her firestick she replied, „What 

 name (why) father, rnother belong you no been give you firestick? I no want give you." She 

 was very angry with the boy and thought to herself, „What's Ihe matter you been cry along 

 that thing, make me come long way along other Island?" 



The boy caught some fish which he brought to the girl to have roasted, but she .said, „I 

 no want him, you kaikai raw." She roasted, her fish and crabs, but the boy had to dry his in 

 the sun. She slept by the side of her fire, and the boy slept in the cold. 



During his wanderings the boy came near to the place where the woman and daughter 

 lived, and one day the latter saw him. „Oh, mother, I been see pigeon (bird) he walk about," 

 she said, „he another kind, he like man he walk about." One day when the boy came close 

 to their camp, the mother asked her daughter to seize him and said, „Man 'belong you he come." 

 The daughter caught hold of him, and the elder woman said, „You éniapora (son-in-law) belong 

 me, you take my girl." The man did not say anything, and they took him into their house, 

 and the girl lighted a fire there for her husband (ef. no. 194 — 202). He sat close to the fire and 



Tom. XLVII. 



