Note 43 — Chapter IV · MYTHS AND LEGENDS

Mr Man records the same legend, but says it was Tomo who caught the fish43. In an Akar-Bale version it was Da Pečero̱l who caught the fish (ko̱roŋadi). Pečero̱l is the bulbul (Otocompsia emeria). I have the name ko̱roŋadi in my notes as being Sphyraena acutipinnis, but the identification is a doubtful one. In the Aka-Kede tribe there is a version in which it is stated that one of the ancestors captured a fish called talepo. This does not seem to be the same species of fish as that called ko̱ro-ŋiti-čau or ko̱roŋadi in the South. In the North Andaman the legend is that Pe̱rǰido, the son of Biliku, shot a large eel (bol) with an arrow, and in its endeavours to get free from the arrow the eel wriggled about till it made all the creeks.