Tales of the Mythical Period 79 



Not long after the people who went to attend the Sayang went home, 

 and Aponlbolinayen and Kanag and Alama-an arrived in a level plain. 

 They went to the shade of an alosip l tree and they sat there many days, 

 for they were very tired. " I am anxious to drink water," said Aponlbo- 

 linayen, and not long after they heard a rooster crowing. "I think we 

 are near a town, for I hear a rooster crowing." So they went where they 

 had heard the rooster. "We go and drink," said Aponlbolinayen. Not 

 long after they reached the place where Silit (one kind of lightning) and 

 the dog Kimat 2 guarded. Silit and the dog were sleeping and did not 

 see them go inside of the town. Soon they arrived in the yard of the 

 golden house of BalbalaOga of Dona and they were ashamed to ask for 

 water to drink, for they were naked. So they went to the balaua and 

 slept, for they were tired,. 



While they were sleeping, BalbalaOga saw them in his balaua, and he 

 was surprised, because no one was permitted to enter the town, for Silit 

 and the dog prevented. He said, "What is the matter of the guards 

 that they did not see those people enter the town? Perhaps they are my 

 relatives." So he took some clothes to the balaua for them. He covered 

 them with blankets while they slept. As soon as he covered them he 

 sat down in the balaua and waited until they got up. As soon as Aponl- 

 bolinayen awoke she saw him and said, "Do not wound us in many 

 places, so we will not need to cure so much." Balbalaoga said, "If I 

 were an enemy I would have killed you while you slept. We are going to 

 chew betel-nut and see who you are." So he cut a betel-nut and gave to 

 them, and their spittle was like agate beads. So he took them up into 

 his golden house and told his mother alan to give them some clothes. 

 Not long after they drank basi, after they had finished eating. All the 

 alan were drunk and the mother of BalbalaOga of Dona said to them, 

 "Aponlbolinayen," BalbalaOga is your brother, for he was the after-birth 

 of Awig, which they put in the tabalang which they sent down the stream. 3 

 So I picked him up, for I had no child to inherit all my things." Not 

 long after they knew that they were brother and sister Balbalaoga 

 asked his sister why they came to Dona without clothes. She said, 

 "Aponltolau is jealous of Don Carlos and he cut off his head, and the 

 head jumped to my breasts, so we were frightened and ran away. That 

 is why we came here. I did not know I had a brother who lived here." 

 The head still hung to the breasts of Aponlbolinayen, but they had not 

 seen it before, for she had covered it. As soon as she showed it to Balba- 



1 Antidesma ghesaembilla Gaertn. 

 vPOrdinary lightning. 

 * See p. 24, note 1. 



