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exchanged greetings. "Good afternoon," they said, and Alokotan 

 took them upstairs; so they went up. Not long after while they were 

 talking, "This was my tabalang, my grandmother old woman Alokotan; 

 bring out of hiding Wanwanyen-Aponlbolinayen, so that I may take 

 her home," said Dumanau, and the old woman Alokotan did not bring 

 her out because she did not believe that he was the husband of Wan- 

 wanyen-Aponlbolinayen; so she used magic, and when she found that 

 he was the husband of Wanwanyen she said, "She is over there. I hid 

 her." So she went to get her and Dumanau, was joyful, for he saw Wan- 

 wanyen alive again. "Ala, now grandmother old woman Alokotan, 

 how much must I pay, because you saved my wife Wanwanyen?" 

 "That is all right, no pay at all. That is why I stay in this place so as 

 to watch and see if any of my dead relatives pass by my house and I 

 make them alive again. If you were not my relative I would have let 

 her go." So Dumanau thanked her many times and they went back 

 home. 



Not long after they arrived in Kadalayapan. "The best for us to 

 do, Wanwanyen-Aponlbolinayen, is for us to build balaua and invite all 

 of our relatives; perhaps you are not the daughter of an alan" said 

 Dumanau. "Why not? I am the daughter of the alan," said Wanwan- 

 yen-Aponlbolinayen. "Ala, let us build balaua anyway." Not long 

 after they commanded people to pound rice, and as soon as Wanwanyen 

 was ready she commanded someone to go and secure the betel-nuts 

 which were covered with gold. As soon as they arrived they oiled 

 them. When it became evening they made Libon. 1 The next morning 

 they sent the betel-nuts to invite their relatives. So they went. Not 

 long after, "I am anxious to chew betel-nut. What is the matter with 

 me?" said Aponigawani, who was lying down on her bed. As soon as 

 she got up she found an oiled betel-nut which was covered with gold 

 beside her. " Do not cut me; I came to invite you to the balaua which 

 Wanwanyen and Dumanau make," said the betel-nut, when she took it 

 intending to cut it. So Aponigawani told the people of Kaodanan to 

 start to attend balaua with Dumanau and Wanwanyen-Aponlbolinayen. 

 She was surprised because Dumanau had arrived, for they had heard 

 that he was lost when he went to hunt deer. She said, "Perhaps he 

 met a lady who never goes outdoors, who has power, when he went to 

 hunt deer." Not long after, "Ala, you people who live in the same 

 town, let us go now to Kadalayapan for Dumanau's and Wanwanyen's 

 balaua." 



As soon as they arrived in the place where the people dipped water 



1 See p. 13, note 2. 



