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did not succeed in procuring it, so went on through other villages. 

 K. in the meantime took off his outer skin and decorated his real 

 body. A female child, daughter of the owner of the pendant, came 

 to the canoe, and, in answer to a question from K., told him that 

 her father and herself owned it. He told her to precede him to the 

 village and he would follow to see the pendant. So he left his out- 

 side skin on the canoe, and with his adorned body went to the 

 village, sat on the verandah, and said, " Bring down the pendant 

 that I may see it. I have come for the Bagi Goma'Arakedakeda " 

 They thought he was a great chief, so gave it to him. He returned 

 to the canoe before his friends came back, folded up the pendant, 

 put it on his head, and then put on his outer skin, thus hiding the 

 pendant. His companions came back to the village and asked 

 again fbr the pendant, but were told that someone had taken it, 

 but they did not believe it. When they arrived at their canoe 

 they asked K. in the usual way as to where he had been, and he 

 said, " What, am I an ordinary human being to walk about ? " 

 They then journeyed to Karuana Island, where there is nothing 

 but stones, and they caught some fish. While they were away 

 fishing, a small boy, who stayed behind with K., dressed K.'s hair 

 for him, removing the nits. In doing so he discovered the 

 pendant, through a crack in K.'s skin. On the return of the rest 

 the boy told his friends secretly what he had seen, whereupon they 

 gave K. the biggest fish they had caught, saying " Let us give to 

 our chief our best fish." They then went to look for water, and 

 having found it, returned and told K. where he could get a drink. 

 While he was away they hoisted sail and left the island. When he 

 came back and found they had gone he wept with rage, and threw 

 big stones at them, which were changed into islands, so that they 

 had to be careful in avoiding them. He then kicked in his rage, 

 and every time he kicked an island or sandbank into the lagoon. 

 So he wept until his body became weak, and he ceased making 

 any more islands. K. then looked up and saw a canoe, which 

 was really a star, and said, " Thumb, I wish to embark," but he 

 was told to wait for " First Finger " ; when that canoe came he 

 was told to wait for " Second Finger." This canoe came, and he 

 was told to wait for ' Third Finger." This canoe came and he was 

 told to wait for " Little Finger." This canoe came, and the owner 

 said, " Wait till the wind moves my flag, and then you may come 

 on board." He embarked, and the owner of the canoe called out, 

 "Oh, my canoe! my canoe! My outrigger! my outrigger!" 

 But K. said, " That's all right ; just put me on to that star over 

 there." So they left him at Wanuwanuine, the land where there 

 are only women. On landing he threw away his ugly skin. He 

 stole some sugarcane and bananas out of a garden. When the 

 woman-owner discovered her loss she said, " Who has stolen my 

 bananas and sugarcane ? " and hid to watch for the thief. In the 

 afternoon K. entered the garden again and the woman caught him, 

 saying, " You have woven your own net." She married him right 

 away, and wrapped him up in her bundle of fire-kindling leaves, 



