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and carried him on her head to her house, where she hid him from 

 the other women. The next day she had to go to the garden again, 

 and the man stayed in the house, but necessity came upon him, 

 and he made water, which poured through the floor on to the ground, 

 the house being built on piles. A woman saw this and said, " Let 

 us see how it is that our sister's water-bottle has upset." She 

 accordingly climbed into the house, and found the man there, 

 whereu^pon she married him right away. The first woman on re- 

 turning from her garden, and finding another woman in her house, 

 asked in anger what right had she to be there, and they had a fight, 

 but afterwards made it up and arranged that K. should be their 

 husband. So unto this day when a man marries a second wife 

 the first one is very angry, and attacks the second wife, beating 

 her, but afterwards they become quite friendly and call each other 

 sister. And so on with other wives. The first wife became preg- 

 nant, and when the child was about to be born the other women 

 wished to cut her open with obsidian, but the husband said "Don't," 

 and took hold of his wife. He ordered one woman to wait in front 

 to receive the child, while he pressed his wife down by the shoulders, 

 whereupon the child was born, and all were greatly rejoiced. The 

 child was taken to the sea to be washed. The woman and child 

 were now put into a house where a fire was lit and kept burning, 

 and after a certain time they came out. As it was a male child the 

 women wished to marry him at once, but the father would not 

 allow them. The second wife became pregnant and gave birth 

 to a child, but they now knew how to attend to the matter. So 

 as time passed a great number of children were born. 



Kasahwaibwaileta returns home to Tewara. — One day the chil- 

 dren were playing the game of noki (rolling an unripe bread-fruit 

 along, which they tried to spear while in motion), and the noki rolled 

 into a clamshell in the graveyard. Taking up the shell they saw under- 

 neath an island, and told K., who saw that it was Tewara, his home. 

 He looked down and saw his mother sweeping the village. She was 

 crying for her son while she was sweeping. K. saw his betelnut tree, 

 and closed up the hole, as he was anxious not to let the women know. 

 He now prepared his pendant, part of which he had given to his 

 children as ornaments, but it was still long enough for his purpose. 

 He let it down to try its length, and saw that it reached his betelnut 

 tree. So he told his children to hold tight to one end, and he then 

 went down, down, till he rested on the tree. He had arranged with 

 his children to pull when he shook the pendant, which they did, and 

 the pendant broke. So the children pulled up their part, and the 

 hole closed up for ever and the children cried. K. was on the 

 betelnut tree, and his mother was sweeping the village. K. threw a 

 nut down, and his mother wanted to know who was interfering with 

 her son's tree. K. had his own lime-gourd with him, for they have 

 the same sort of lime up there as is in use down below. The mother 

 went on crying while she swept the village, thinking she was alone. 

 He spit out some of the nut and lime which he was chewing, and she 

 thought it was bird's dung. When the sun rose high the shadow of 



