Note 30 — Chapter IV · MYTHS AND LEGENDS
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“To explain the origin of certain fish, they say that one day before the Deluge, Maia Ko̱lwo̱t went to visit an encampment of the Tomola situated in the Archipelago. While engaged in his song the women, through inattention to his instructions, marred the effect of the chorus, so, to punish them, he seized his bow, whereupon the whole party in terror fled in all directions; some escaping into the sea were changed into dugongs, porpoises, sharks, and various other fish which till then had not been seen30.”