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152 MALEKULA
"Gump bilium 'tikimmgk./â€ù En imp bilium, m
"Run into my house!â€ù And she ran into the house, and
tatai itaris nggor mzhal ran Viloormbarajw. I wer :
my father stood across the path of Viloormbarap. He said:
"G-utal iei wutin; guswelengvs; uvini nroh amo! â€ù
"Return thither; do:n’t you come; you have shot my mother! "
En ei ital. En tatai iwer binggen m'm0mo mah trokoh
And he went back. And my father said unto all the women who were
eium, iwer .' " A 010: nilip ran amo.â€ù E n
in the village, he said: " Cut out the shot in my mother.â€ù And
revw/vmr nivaran Vanambang bweleng viisar, an reher
they grasped the arms of Vanambang P ?, and they took
nesu nin namul, rolmhu hur nahal nin nelip nemm,
thorns of the Orange, they inserted along the track of the shot
en ' 101501 nambu, roams hm nimbwiliel
and they cut a bamboo, they (sliced) along the hole
nin nilip mmen, en. nmrzi iwamwar; en Vanambang
of (made by) the shot, and the blood ran down; and Vanarnbang
imehe or imam’ ismzsve.
was sick, but she lived, she did not die.
There is apparently one condition on which a woman is
excused by public opinion for deserting her husband. If asman
is impotent, then his wife is not wholly condemned if she tala lover. This is shown by the following occurrences. A dispute
arose between a man, Ainggil Burei of Eviin Viliil and his wife
Luus Mbuas of Uraau. As will be noticed, these two people are
both members of the same clan, and their union was therefore
a breach oi tribal rules, but when Luus Mbuas was still a young
girl she had been given in marriage to Ainggil Burei as one of
the conditions of a peacemaking between her village and Evtin
Viliil) This had been the demand of Ainggil Burei’s elder
brother, who was a man of sufficient influence to enforce his
wishes and to ignore public disapproval, his action in the matter
having been dictated by the desires of his younger brother, who
had conceived a passion for the lady in question. A difficulty
then arose concerning the marriage payments, for these may not
be made within a single clan. Thus, neither Ainggil Burei nor
his brother could give the pigs for Luus Mbuas to her relatives,
the people of their " parent â€ù village, Uraau. It was agreed,
therefore, that the pigs should be handed over to Ambong Mweil,
the principal man of Reimbi village and of the clan Anan Naiew
‘ For an account of this see Chap. VIII. i
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