Note 51 — Chapter IV · MYTHS AND LEGENDS
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“The ancestors were at enmity with Maia Po̱rubi. They went to kill him. They shot him with their arrows, but they could not kill him. Maia Po̱rubi caught hold of them all in his arms, and jumped into the sea. He jumped from the hill called Čauanara. He found a big round stone (boulder) and put the people under it and left them there. All the people turned into stone, and may be seen there now. The next night some more of the people went to hunt turtle near Maia Po̱rubi’s place. They caught a turtle and shouted51. Maia Po̱rubi heard them shouting. ‘They are coming again to kill me,’ he said. While they were catching turtle he threw a round stone at them. The stone sank the canoe. The canoe and the people in it were turned to stone.”