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"When you went to sail, did you not find the switch which belongs 

 to Aponlbolinayen? They are now making a ceremony to find it." 

 "It is here, that which I picked up in the shade of the pafmlo-ongen 

 tree, and I will take it back when I go to fight." 



Not long after that, according to the custom of the story, the second 

 month came. "Old men who know the signs and very old women, 

 come and see the liver and gall sack, because I go to fight." After that 

 they all gathered, they caught the pig and cut it in large pieces. "Ala, 

 old men who know the signs and very old women, come and see the gall, 

 for I go to fight." 1 "This is better than your grandfather had when 

 he consulted the gall. How fearful you will be to the town which you 

 go to fight!" "Cousin Agyokan, go and tell all our cousins that we 

 start when morning comes." When early morning came — as goes 

 in a story — they arrived. Aponltolau played his Jew's harp at the 

 spring of the town, and it sounded like the song of a bird and the people 

 smelt the odor of alangigan (Ilangilang) which is only possessed by the 

 people of Kadalayapan. "Ala, it is Aponltolau," said Dalinmanok. 

 "Go and tell our companions that we go to fight him at the river, for 

 we do not wish them to come on shore in our town." When it was day, 

 they met at the river and they fought until afternoon; and when Aponl- 

 tolau was thirsty his headaxe turned slantwise and water blue as indigo 

 flowed off it freely. 



" Dumpoga of Dagala, Llgl of Madagltan, Llgl of Dagopan, Masilnag 

 of Kaskasilnagan, I come to teach you because you do not know how 

 to kill. When one tries to kill your left side, receive the blow with your 

 right, and when they try to kill the right side, receive it with the left. 

 Ala! you that are left alive, it is better that I spare you and that you 

 marry the wives of your companions. I will spare you if you will all 

 agree to give me one hundred jars which are ginlasan, summadag, and 

 tadogan." They agreed. They rolled the jars which they took down 

 to the river and there were among them doldoli and ginaang, 2 and the 

 jars were glad, for they had formerly belonged to Dagolayen, the grand- 

 father of Aponltolau, but had been stolen. After that Aponltolau said, 

 "Give me your betel-nut with magic power. You jars and all you 

 heads of dead persons which are cut off, go first to Kadalayapan." 

 After that they went and Aponltolau followed. After they arrived they 

 danced with the heads and in a short time put them on the sagang. 3 



"Now, Aponlgawanl, bring me the switch of Aponlbolinayen, for I 



1 See p. 19, note I, 



* See p. 42. 



8 See p. 10, note 4. 



