80 JOHN FRASEK. 



1 There is a woman there ; why should you not go to her, and let 

 us have a child.' When Ululepapa went again to fetch salt water, 

 she saw Ye 'a coming to bathe. Now Ye 'a 12 was a virgin. Ta- 

 langa met her. After a while, Talanga told Ululepapa that the 

 woman had conceived. She answered him, 'It is good; we shall 

 have a child.' Then when the time came that she was to bring 

 forth, Ululepapa said to Yea, ' This is the month for you to bring 

 forth ; go you away towards the sea 13 ; when the child is born, 1 * 

 bring him back.' 



So they took him up, and Ululepapa had the care of him ; they 

 fed him ; they broke the rock 15 for the child to have water to 

 drink, and to bathe in. The boy grew and was much attached to 

 his father; he slept perched on his father's 16 shoulder, and so he 

 was called Ti'e-ti'e-i-Talanga, ' riding upon Talanga,' but they 

 shortened the name to Ti'e-ti'e and Ti'i-ti'i. As he grew, they 

 began plaiting 17 a girdle for him; they continued to plait the 

 girdle, and the boy was crawling; they had got ten fathoms 18 of 

 it done ; they went on plaiting; when the boy was walking, they 

 had twent}'- fathoms ; again they plaited ; thirty fathoms ; again 

 they plaited, and there were forty fathoms. Thus they got to one 

 hundred fathoms. They gave him the whole hundred fathoms as 

 a girdle ; it fitted his body, and there was one fathom left. 



The child was now full-grown and used to stroll about. One 

 day he came and said to his mother, ' What is the reason that we 

 are different from the other people 1 ?' 'How do you mean,' said 

 she. He replied, ' Because we eat cooked food ; but they eat only 

 raw food ; I see it as I stroll about.' ' Get away, you tiresome 

 boy,' 19 said she. He came to know that his father was in the 

 habit of going away early in the morning ; so he determined to 

 watch him. At night he went to sleep, but he heard his father 

 going away in the early morning, when the cock crew. 2 ° When 

 another night came, he secretly tied the end of the remaining 

 fathom of his girdle to his father's foot ; when his father rose in 

 the morning he dragged the boy by the girdle and wakened him. 

 Talanga went out and the boy followed him; he reached the place 



