766 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION F. 
the fish they had taken, and began to put on their wings pre- 
paratory to their return ascent. All did this but one whose wings 
could not be found after the most anxious search, and who was 
therefore left behind. She proved to be a woman, and the man 
who had stolen and hidden her wings came and took her for his 
wife. They lived peaceably together and had two sons. The man 
said to his wife “Let us give them names.” The woman said 
*“ No, let them call each other what they please.” One day the 
two youths were playing with bows and arrows, the one inside, 
the other outside the house, when the one called to the other 
“ Maka Tafaki,” who responded to his brother, addressing him as 
“ Karisi Bum.” Thus they received their names. 
By-and bye trouble arose in the hitherto peaceful household. 
The man illtreated his wife, and said to her, ‘‘ You are a wicked 
woman, cause of trouble and sorrow; go back to your own 
country.” This made her heart sore, and she sighed for the lost 
wings, that she might fly away from all this turmoil and be at rest. 
One day she and her two sons were out. By accident the youths 
discovered a white thing in a banana stem. It was the thing 
their father had hidden there, Their mother was overjoyed. 
Determined to go, she first gave to her sons some information 
about her kindred, expecting that they would eventually see them. 
Then, putting on her wings, she sang the appropriate song, 
swinging backwards and forwards a few times while doing so, and 
went swiftly into heaven. They went home and told their 
father. 
The two brothers grew up and became exceedingly clever and 
successful men. They excelled in everything, and became richer 
than any of the people of the land. They were therefore envied. 
They were told that they did not belong to that country at all, 
and bidden go in search of their mother’s country. Their riches 
were the principal cause of this ill-will... The aborigines, no doubt, 
expected to possess these by driving them away. These brothers, 
however, were not to be trifled with. They did things that made 
them both renowned and feared. For example, on one occasion 
they “‘beat the winds” with a club. For this purpose they 
climbed a high nierw tree (casuarina), and lay in wait for the 
winds. First came Swepate (‘sua,’ to come down from), the trade 
wind, at which they aimed a terrible blow but missed. 
Then came TZokelan, the east wind, which they also missed. 
So with some others. Finally came J/astan, the south-west wind. 
This was their last chance, and they determined to make the most 
of it. On came the towering wind in all its pride; down came the 
club on its forehead with thundering crash, and it fell with a 
shriek, lifeless and prone. And this is the reason that, while all 
the other winds blow rude and strong, the south-west wind blows 
gently, or at any rate, soon dies away. 
