66 Traditions of the Tinguian 



the hill above the spring. She looked and looked at the place where the 

 spring was for truly the enemies were thick like locusts about the well. 

 "What did you come for?" she asked. "We come to fight the people who 

 live in Kadalayapan, because we have heard that the woman who is 

 always in the house 1 has no brother, so we have come to carry her away," 

 they said. "Ala, if you wish to prove her bravery you take this betel- 

 nut." She cut it in two pieces and gave it to them. "We asked you to 

 excuse us from going Glnawan," they said. "Ala, you begin and see 

 what you can do," said Aponigawani who stood on a high stone and 

 she stood with her hands on her hips while they threw their weapons. 

 "Now, I am next," she said. "You, my spear, when I throw you, kill 

 at once seven and six; and you, my headaxe, cut off their heads from the 

 left and right sides, from in back and in front." When Aponigawani had 

 killed all of them except Glnawan and she had all their weapons, Glna- 

 wan said, "Please, my friend, let me live so that someone may go back 

 to the town we came from." "Ala, yes, if that is what you ask, my 

 friend, but I will come next to your town," she said, and Glnawan went 

 home alone. Not long after that the month which they had agreed on 

 came. 



"Now, mother, go and make cakes and after that I will go to fight," 

 said Aponibolinayen. "Do not go," said her mother Ebang of Kaodan- 

 an, but she could not detain her, so she made the cake, and when she 

 finished, Aponibolinayen went. 



" Mother, make preparations for me to go to war, for this is the month 

 we agreed upon with Glnawan of Nagtinawan," said Aponigawani to 

 her mother Langa-an of Kadalayapan. 



Bye and bye Aponibolinayen who was walking in the middle of the 

 road, stopped because she was tired. Aponigawani was also walking 

 and when she looked up she saw a woman to whom none compared, and 

 she was startled, and she said, "Here is a woman who looks like me. 

 I do not like to approach her who looks like me, yet I am ashamed not 

 to do so, for she has seen me," she said. "Good morning," said Aponi- 

 gawani to Aponibolinayen who sat on a high stone by the road. They 

 leaned their spears together between them and then they talked. " Now, 

 my friend, where are you going," said Aponibolinayen. "I am going 

 to war," said Aponigawani. "And where are you going?" said Aponi- 

 gawani to Aponibolinayen. "I am going to Gonlgonan, because the 

 month which I agreed upon with Ginambo of Gonlgonan has come," 

 said Aponibolinayen. "Ala, let us chew betel-nut." "Yes, if that is what 

 you say, we will chew betel-nut," said Aponigawani. After that they 



1 See p. 54, note 2. 



