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shouted defiance, but he said, " Who are you ? Are you big ? 

 Why, you are only of small stature ! " They answered him, 

 " You'll be killed to-day." He called out, " Your destruction has 

 come to-day ; I shall kill you all." Whereupon they hurled their 

 spears at him from all quarters, but as they stuck fast in his flesh 

 he knocked them out, saying " My blood is as the blood of the 

 canoe-wood tree. Your end has come ; it is all finished with you." 

 They replied, " Return ! Return ! " They continued to throw 

 spears, which pierced his body, till at last he began to grow weak, 

 and so could not hurt them, but had to drop his implements of 

 warfare. He stood erect a little longer, and then his head began 

 to shake, and soon after he fell, and his fall was like an earthquake 

 — it opened the ground. The warriors now ran up to the body 

 and belaboured it with their clubs. They also took his net off his 

 back and tore it to pieces, releasing those who were in it. There 

 were also dead bodies and pieces of flesh in the net. These they 

 buried, and allowed the released prisoners to go home. An old 

 woman now cut off one of the giant's fingers and cooked it on the 

 fire ; she then gave it to a dog to see would it poison it, but the dog 

 liked the food so much that it said, " Where is some more for me to 

 eat ?" They waited till the next day, and the dog did not die. The 

 old woman then tried some, and said " I have eaten and my body 

 is strong." Therefore they all gathered around and began to 

 cut the body into pieces and divide it out. They had a heap 

 the size of a big house to divide. The district of Morima 

 had one hand and arm given to it, Garea the other ; Si'irugu 

 a leg, and Taulu a thigh ; Warera a leg ; Bwaio his feet, 

 and that is why they can run so fast ; Kukuiaa thigh. The 

 rest of his body was divided amongst the surrounding tribes, 

 each tribe a portion. The warriors then said, " Oh, we have 

 given nothing to the two tribes Bwakera and Dobu, which are 

 always fighting against each other." So they sent to Bwakera the 

 leaves which are used as lids of cooking pots, and to Dobu the head 

 and the blood, and that is why the Dobuans drink human blood 

 raw. The liver was given to the people of Oiabawe, and that is 

 why they are always fainthearted and run away. The intestines 

 were given to the tribe of Nadi, and so they are expert at catching 

 arid breaking spears. The conclusion of the whole matter is that, 

 because of their partaking of the giant's flesh, they are giant's 

 children, and boast of the fact when they are successful in war. 



Kasahwaihwaileta and the Origin of Polygamy. — K. was a native 

 of Tewara Island, who went with his friends on an expedition to 

 Boioa (Trobriand's), the Land of Dreams. K's body was well 

 formed, and he was a Gomabwaina, or good-looking man, but he 

 had an outer skin which was very ugly and covered with sores, so 

 that his appearance was a dirty, dingy white. Being ugly, he 

 remained in the canoe whilst his relatives went into the villages 

 in search of Bagi (a highly-prized pendant made of two strings of 

 shell beads). They saw a Bagi, called Goma'Arakedakeda, but 



