Tales of the Mythical Period ioi 



As soon as he stood on it it sailed very fast. Not long after he was across 

 the ocean and he was at the other edge of the ocean and he walked again. 

 Not long after he arrived at the spring where the women went to get 

 water. "Good morning, you women who are dipping water from the 

 spring." "Good morning. If you are an enemy cut us in only one 

 place so we will not need to cure so much." "If I was an enemy I would 

 have killed all of you when I arrived here. After that he asked them, 

 "Is this the spring of Gawigawen of Adasen?" "Yes, it is," said the 

 women. So he sent the women to the town to tell Gawigawen, and the 

 women did not tell him for he was asleep. So he went up to the town, 

 but did not go inside, because the bank reached almost up to the sky, 

 and he could not get in. He was sorrowful and bent his head. 



Soon the chief of the spiders went to him: "What are you feeling 

 sorry about, Aponltolau?" " I feel sorry because I cannot climb up the 

 bank and go into the town." "Do not feel sorry. You wait for me 

 while I go up and put some thread which you can hold," said the chief 

 of the spiders. 1 So Aponltolau waited for him. Not long after the 

 spider said, "Now you can climb; so Aponltolau climbed on the thread. 

 After he got inside of the town of Gawigawen he went directly to the 

 house of Gawigawen. When he arrived there Gawigawen was still 

 asleep in his balaua. As soon as he woke up and saw Aponltolau sitting 

 by his balaua he stood and ran to his house and got his headaxe and 

 spear. Aponltolau said to him, "Good morning, Cousin Gawigawen. 

 Do not be angry with me. I came here to buy your oranges for my wife. 

 Aponibolinayen wishes to eat one, for she always has a headache, because 

 she has nothing she can eat." Gawigawen took him to his house, and 

 he fed him one carabao. "If you cannot eat all of the carabao which I 

 give you, you cannot have the oranges which your wife wishes to eat." 

 Aponltolau was sorrowful, for he thought he could not eat all of the 

 carabao and he bent his head. Not long after the chiefs of the ants and 

 flies went to him. "What makes you feel so badly, Aponltolau?" they 

 said to him. "I am sorrowful, for I cannot get the oranges which 

 Aponibolinayen wishes to eat until I eat this carabao which Gawigawen 

 feeds to me." "Do not be sorrowful," said the chiefs of the ants and 

 flies. So they called all the ants and flies to go and eat all the meat and 

 rice. Not long after the flies and ants finished eating the meat and 

 rice, and Aponltolau was very glad and he went to Gawigawen and said 

 to him, "I have finished eating the food which you gave me." Gawi- 

 gawen was surprised. "What did you do?" "I ate all of it." 



Gawigawen took him where the oranges were and Aponltolau saw 



1 See p. 16. 



