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Bisau, for the people there promised to make Ubaya. Soon the people 

 saw a man entering the town and they sent a man to prevent him 1 . 

 He said, "Let me come in, for I bring goods for you. Your food and 

 animals and other things which you need shall be increased." After 

 that he said, "Let all the people in the world know of this so that they 

 will make Ubaya for me, and I will aid them also." 



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Dayapan was a woman who lived in Ka-alang. For seven years she 

 was sick. She went to the spring to bathe and while she was in the 

 water a spirit sent by Kadaklan 2 entered her body. The spirit held 

 sugar-cane and rice. He said to her, "Take this sugar-cane and rice 

 and plant them in the ground. After you reap the sugar-cane and 

 rice, you will build a bin to hold the rice, and a sugar mill for the cane; 

 after that you will make Sayang and that will make you well." Daya- 

 pan took those things and went back home. She planted the sugar- 

 cane and rice. When she was planting, the spirit entered her body 

 again and taught her how to plant. When she reaped the sugar-cane 

 and rice, she began to make Sayang. The spirit Kabonlyan went again 

 into her to teach her how to make Sayang. The spirit said, "Send a 

 man to get bolo (bamboo) and weave it into talapitap. 3 Take lono 

 and bolo as big as a finger and make dakidak 3 and put a jar with water 

 upstairs in the house. Dance daeng* for ten nights. You will pass 

 seven evenings, then you will build balaua} Send some persons to 

 get wood and bamboo and rattan and cogon, and take ten baskets 

 with cooked rice to follow the number of nights (i.e., on the first night 

 one basket of cooked rice on the talapitap; the second night, two; and 

 so on). When you finish the time you will know how to make dawak 4 

 and to call all the spirits, and you will teach the people how to do 

 dawak." 



When she finished the dawak, the spirit sent her to wash in the 

 river as a sign that she had finished Sayang. He told her to get a dog 

 and a cock. She went to the river and she tied the cock and the 

 dog by the water, and while she was gone, the dog killed the cock. 

 Dayapan wept, but for a long time the spirit did not come. When 

 Kabonlyan came again, he said, " If the dog had not killed the cock, no 



1 No one is allowed to enter the town after the ceremony begins. 



2 The most powerful of all spirits. 

 1 See p. 13. 



4 See p. 13, note 1. 

 6 See p. 12. 



