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make dawak with her. All the people were surprised, for she made a 

 pleasanter sound when she rang and they thought she was a banandyo x . 

 The young men who went to attend the balaua loved her, for she was 

 pretty and knew very well how to sing the dawak. As soon as they 

 finished the dawak she was free to leave the talagan, so her brother 

 Kanag took her and put her in his belt 2 and he put her in the high 

 house 3 so the young men could not reach her. 



As soon as the balaua was over the people went home, but the young 

 men still remained below the house watching her, and the ground below 

 became muddy, for they always remained there. 



When Kanag saw the young men below the house fighting about her, 

 he took her again into the air so that the young men could not see her. 

 As soon as they arrived in the air they met the anitos, and Kanag said 

 to them, "I intended to keep my sister in Sudlpan, for I had made a little 

 golden house for her to live in, but I have brought her back, for all the 

 young men are fighting about her." The anitos were glad that she was 

 back with them and they gave Kanag more power, so that when he 

 should go to war he would always destroy his opponents. Agten- 

 ngaEyan used to go and teach the women how to make dawak when 

 anyone made balaua, so that she taught them very well how to make 

 dawak. This is all. 



(Told by a medium named Magwati of Lagangilang.) 



"Ala, Aponibolinayen prepare our things, for we arc going to plant 

 sugar cane," said Aponltolau. Not long after they went to see the 

 cuttings and they were big. They took them and planted them when 

 they arrived at the place where they wished to plant them. Aponltolau 

 planted them and Aponibolinayen watered them. Not long after 

 Aponibolinayen used magic and she said, "I use my power so that all 

 the cuttings will be planted." Soon they truly were all planted, so 

 they went back home. After seven days Aponltolau went to look at 

 them and their leaves were long and pointed so he used magic and said, 

 "I used my power so that after five days all the sugar cane which we 

 planted will be ready to chew." Then he went back home. In five 

 days he went again to see them and as soon as he arrived at the planting 

 he saw they were all tall and about ready to chew. 



1 See p. 105. 



2 See p. 63, note 1. 



* The term used is al-ligan — the high watch house in the fields. 



