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"Now, where is the Red One?" he asked. "He is in the house, painting. I have not told him you were coming. Go in and see him." "But what does he complain of? If he is well enough to paint, he is well enough to have come down to Taravao and save me this confounded walk. I presume my time is no less valuable than his." Ata did not speak, but with the boy followed him to the house.

What did these phrases mean that they were so oft repeated by the denizens of Oo-oh? Lu and lo, Bradley knew to mean man and woman; ata; was employed variously to indicate life, eggs, young, reproduction and kindred subject; cos was a negative; but in combination they were meaningless to the European. "Do you mean they will kill you?" asked Bradley. "I but wish that they would," replied the girl.

Modern foreign increments that have filtered into the stories from the folk-lore of neighboring wild tribes notably that of the Bilan, the Tagacolo, and, to a less extent, the Culaman and Ata will have to be sifted out eventually. In illustration of this point, one tale known to be outside of Bagobo sources is here introduced.

"The other deities are Mandarangan, Malalayug, god of agriculture; Mabalian, the spirit who presides over childbirth; Tarasyub and Taratuan, the guardian spirits of the brass and iron workers; Boypandi the spirit who guards over the weavers." While in the Ata country the Governor observed certain customs of the people.

But with regard to his successors no such supposition seemed probable, until the time of Sneferu and the pyramid-builders. This was the critical view. Another school of historians accepted all the kings of the lists as historical en bloc, simply because the Egyptians had registered their names as kings. To them Teta, Ateth, and Ata were as historical as Mena.

I saw he was longing to get away to the bush, and at the end of the month I asked him what he intended to do. He said if Ata was willing to go, he was willing to go with her. So I gave them a wedding dinner. I cooked it with my own hands. I gave them a pea soup and lobster <i a la portugaise,> and a curry, and a cocoa-nut salad you've never had one of my cocoa-nut salads, have you?

Then Ata had a baby, and the old woman who came up to help her through her trouble stayed on. Presently the granddaughter of the old woman came to stay with her, and then a youth appeared no one quite knew where from or to whom he belonged but he settled down with them in a happy-go-lucky way, and they all lived together.

The word is derived from two others: Lua, meaning sun, and ata, meaning variously eggs, life, young, and reproduction. She told me that they worshiped Luata in several forms, as fire, the sun, eggs and other material objects which suggested heat and reproduction.

Sometimes Ata would come down to the village at night and arouse the trader, so that he might sell her various things of which she stood in need. She knew that the natives looked upon her with the same horrified aversion as they looked upon Strickland, and she kept out of their way.