524 Gunnar Landtman. 



back this place, you go Adfri (the land of the dead). Me fellow look moon he light, sun he go 

 up; you go Adfri now all same sun he go down." 



After a time the man to whom Bâdai had spöken just before his death went to Kéri and 

 told him what Bâdai had said (abbrev.). Kéri ceased to blame the peuple for Bâdai's death, for 

 he knevv that the fault was his own. 



Since that incident a person vvho looks after somebody eise's child is given water before 

 the parents think of some for themselves. The people cannot forget Bâdai who died because he 

 was „hungry for water". (Såibu, Mawata). 



IGNORANT ODJO WHO WAS INSTRUCTED BY BERO. 



477. At Djibaru there was a man named Ôdjo who had no house, so he scratched a 

 hole with a shell in a large 'tree to live in. He ate the crumbles dug out of the tree and dränk 

 the juice of a certain plant. Not far away livad another man, named Bero, in a proper house. 

 He had many gardens but lived quite alone, and one day he called out from his abode, „He got 

 no man here along bush? Who man he want, he come, I stop one man (alone)." ^^ Odjo heard 

 him and went to his place stealthily, for he was afraid of Bero. On seeing him Bero said, „Oh, 

 you come now! I look round people, I find one man now," and he took him into his house. 

 „What kind kaikai you got?" Bero asked him. „I kaikai wood, I scratch wood." „Come on, 

 brother, you me (we) go, I give you good kaikai," said Bero. He gave him taro and bananas 

 and showed him some water in a bowl, bud Odjo recoiled on seeing his reflection. „Me there, 

 who there underneath all same me?" he exclaimed. Bero set him at rest and made him eat and 

 drink, and he had to teach him what the différent kinds of food were. He also instructed him 

 how to make a garden. After a time they went away in différent directions to search for a 

 woman, for both wanted to marry, and at a place called Düedji Odjo found two women called 

 Abödjo and Âkiâdje, and he brought them home. Bero had not found any woman, but Odjo 

 gave him one of his and they married, but the women were quite ignorant of the sexual act 

 and had to be instructed by the men. After a time two boys were born. 



One day Ôdjo asked Bero, „What's way (how) you me (vve) go stop (live)? You me go 

 stop altogether (for ever) all same wood?" „No, you me no go stop altogether all same wood," 

 said Bero, „you me come old by-and-by." The two were the flrst bushmen in existence and 

 did not know of anyone who had died before them. Ôdjo said that he should die first and show 

 the way. He asked Bero to bury his body in the ground and light a large fire on the grave. 

 Then Bero should place a larg^, green bamboo on the fire, and after a while the bamboo would 

 burst with a loud report and take the spirit of the dead man up to heaven; for the bushmen 

 believe that the spirits go up to heaven. When Odjo died his body was treated by Bero accoixling 

 to his instructions, and when Bero died his was treated in the same way. (Såibu, Mawäta). 



Tom. \LVII. 



