526 • Gunnar Landtman. 



waited for his return meaning to kill him. After a time he arrived calling out as before, „Tvvo 

 wife belong me, you stop there? Mora better you come catch me, bushman been shoot me!" 

 „No fear," the two vvomen thought, „I no want go catch you." They seized two digging sticks 

 and kept them ready to hand. The man called out again and again, but they did not stir, and 

 finally he came on shore leaning heavily with both hands on a paddle. „Two woman belong 

 me, whafs the matter you no come catch me?" he asked them, but they did not answer. Then 

 he snid, „You go take thing belong me, I been leave him along canoe." His first vvifç got up, 

 Struck him, and cried out, „No good you kaikai pig one man (alone), make fool along me fellow!" 

 The second woman too beat him with all her might, and in the end he was killed. „No good 

 you fight him that man," the people reproached the women, but they said, „No fault belong me, 

 fault belong that man. He no tall me straight, he teil, 'I go make garden.' He go kaikai pig 

 one man, no give half, he make fool all people and you me (us). That's why me fight him." 

 Whereupon the people said, „Oh, I no want talk, he all right." The dead man was buried and 

 his wives wailed över him. At first they had Struck him and then they wailed, saying, „Oh, no 

 good I fight man belong me. Who go marry me two fellow?" In this vvay they kept on wailing 

 (Bfri, Ipisfa). 



A. A Sagéro man made a pig-trap with one of his wives, and when he found the pig he 

 cooked and ate it by himself under exactly the same circumstances as in the iirst version. Then he 

 swam in the water to wash away the smell of pig and returned home- making his wives believe that 

 he had been in a fight. After the same trick had been repeated several times the truth was disclosed 

 to one of the women in a dream. One day she followed her husband and discovered his treachery. 

 She painted herself ready for a fight and killed him. On her return home she told the other woman what 

 she had done, and they brought iheir husband home and buried him after which they wailed över him. 

 (Ibia, Ipisia). 



B. There are two more versions of this story with similar détails to those in the versions 

 above. (K;iku and Mdnu, Ipisia). 



THE PUNISHMENT OF THE BOY WHO WAS SENT WITH FOOD TO ANOTHER PERSON 



AND ATE IT HIMSELF. 



479. One of the leading trngo men once invited the other men to drinl< gäinoda and eat 

 with him. Some of them could not come, and therefore the great man sent a boy to them with 

 presents of food. The boy, however, did not fulfil his errand but climbed up a coconut tree with 

 all the food, and there he ate it himself When he came down the great man asked him, „You 

 been give that other man sago, crab, fish?" „Yes, I been give him," lied the boy. 



Another time the boy was sent on the same errand, and again he climbed up the coconut 

 tree where he gorged himstlf with the food, at the same time defecating from the top of the tree. 

 He lied to the great man as before. The same thing happened a third time when the great man 

 and his five wives held a large feast, hut on. that occasion the former got to know of the treachery 

 through a cripple who had watched the boy ^ (abbrev.). Th* great man seized his weapons and 



Tom. XL VII. 



