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Aponlbolinayen said, "You old enemy take this betel-nut," and she 

 cut it in two and gave it to them. " How are we sure Ginambo of Gonl- 

 gonan that only our names will not go back, we are afraid." Ginambo 

 said, "Do not be afraid, but hurry to be brave." "Ala, now do what 

 you can," shouted Aponlbolinayen who stood on a high rock. When 

 they started toward Aponlbolinayen their spears looked like rain they 

 were so many. She glanced off the spears with both elbows. "Now I 

 am the next to throw my spears," said Aponlbolinayen. "Yes, because 

 all our weapons are gone," they said. 



Aponlbolinayen was next, she said, "I will use my magic, and you, 

 my spear, shall kill six and seven at one time, and you, my headaxe, cut 

 off their heads from the left side and from the right side, and in back and 

 in front." "Ala, you spare me so that I may tell the people in Gonigonan 

 where I live," said Ginambo. "Yes, but next month I will come to your 

 town Gonigonan to fight," said Aponlbolinayen. 



Ginambo went home alone to her town. ' ' Why are you alone? ' ' asked 

 the people who lived in the same town when she arrived. "What can 

 we do, all my companions who went to fight are lost, because they did 

 not throw their spears at Aponlbolinayen." "That is what we told you 

 Ginambo of Gonigonan when you started, but you did not heed, you 

 know that the people of Kaodanan are powerful like Kabonlyan." 1 



Soon after that Glnawan of Nagtinawan said, "You people who live 

 in the same town in which I live, let us go to fight AponlgawanI of Kada- 

 layapan." "No, we do not wish to go, because the people who live in 

 Kadalayapan are powerful like Kabonlyan. We do not know whether 

 she has a brother or not though someone has said that AponlgawanI has 

 no brother." "No we go," said Glnawan. "If that is what you say, 

 we will go," said the people. So they went and they walked and walked 

 until they reached the spring at Kadalayapan. Glnawan said, "You 

 women who are dipping water from the spring, to whom does it belong?" 

 "To AponlgawanI," they said. Glnawan said, "Ala, you go and tell 

 your bravest that we fight with steel weapons." The women who dipped 

 water from the well said, "We do not know who is the bravest, whom 

 we should tell, for AponlgawanI has no brother." They went up to the 

 town, and said, "Uncle Pagbokasan the place about the spring is filled 

 with enemies." Then AponlgawanI was in a hurry to go. "Do not go 

 you will kill somebody," said her father. "No, father, the spring will 

 be lost and then what can we do? Father, I am a woman and since I 

 have no brother, perhaps it is my fortune to fight, for you are weak." 



She took her skirt, headaxe, and spear and she went to the edge of 



1 A powerful spirit. 



