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it is time for eating, etc.” (Cr, 571). 
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The following are some such 
Carib songs from the upper Pomeroon : 
Akare wartoni lo-ié-u tona 
wutaupototo. 
yaruta 
Alligator similar-to traveling creek 
head-of have-been-there. 
i. e. Like an alligator, I have traveled to the creek-head. 
Mekoro kunossa ; 
Ayewa manni: 
Esamako! porré! 
i. e. There’s a Negro coming. 
Towarikengko parmi sariwari: 
parmi aiata: 
poponaka! aiawondake. 
i. e. (You are) singing like a tiger, like (his) powerful (voice) : 
face-to-face (with me). 
Don’t kiss him. 
Black (man) coming: 
Kiss not: 
Aside! far away! 
ret out of the way, far. 
Singing like tiger: 
like powerful: 
stand-up face-to-face. 
stand up! 
597. Among Arawak songs the following are mari-mari ones 
(sec. 595). They were given to me by Charlie Melville, of Pickers- 
gill (Dec., 1911), who had learned them as a youngster from old 
Cornelius, the famous Arawak medicine man, a friend of Brett : 
Ist verse (man sings) : 
Basekento hiaro Gma dibinifa toka- 
sakaébo : 
dalekebetofa ibini toma. 
2nd verse (woman sings) : 
Lihi wadili 6ma dibinifa kashiku- 
alli: 
terebokondi 6ma. 
3rd verse (woman sings) : 
Wibinatekéno dai-i kashikwalli 6ma 
banshing-od6émade : 
Wibinifa kena terebo-jiko. 
Short girl with-you going-to-dance to- 
day. 
Will-be-glad dance with-her. 
He young-man with-him  going-to- 
dance house-master : 
At-the-river-comes with-him. 
Let-us-dance-then me  house-master 
with-me if-you-like-me. 
Going-to-dance now river-comes. 
Another song of this mari-mari is: 
Wako-kwa yawara meloko ayuroko- 
koba : 
dalekin to-y6a kayfirawa tobo. 
Pigeon bush-rat bad steal away: 
my bird young goose-skin (i. e., not 
yet feathered) now. 
i. e., The wicked bush rat is stealing my pigeon, my little bird, before it is 
even feathered. 
The following (also in the mari-mari) is supposed to be sung by a 
baboon (howler) to a black monkey: 
Itori wadili kani wibinate: 
Horo-e hiaro 6ma datio. 
Baboon young-man nice let-us-dance- 
together : 
black-monkey girl with-my daughter- 
in-law. 
Crévaux’s experiences among the Yaruro Indians led him to say 
that we are far from hearing songs wherein they exalt the virtues 
of their ancestors, or boast of the courage of the warriors of their 
