him. After that he
told the people that all who believed that he was powerful could go with
him, but all who did not go would be turned into animals and _buso_.
Then LumabEt started away and those who stayed back became animals and
_buso_.

"He went to the place Binaton, across the ocean, the place where the
earth and sky meet. When he got there he saw that the sky kept going up
and down the same as a man opening and closing his jaws. LumabEt said to
the sky 'You must go up,' but the sky replied 'No.' At last LumabEt
promised the sky that if he let the others go he might catch the last
one who tried to pass; so the sky opened and the people went through;
but when near to the last the sky shut down and caught the bolo of next
to the last man. The last one he caught and ate.

"That day LumabEt's son Tagalion was hunting and caught many animals
which he hung up. Then he said he must go to his father's place; so he
leaned an arrow against a _baliti_ tree and sat on it. It began to grow
down and carried him down to his father's place, but when he arrived
there were no people there. He saw a gun, made out of gold, and some
white bees in the house. The bees said 'You must not cry; we can take
you to the sky,' So he rode on the gun, and the bees took him to the sky
and he arrived there in three days.

"One of the men was looking down on the land below, and all of the
spirits made fun of him and said they would take out his intestines so
that he would be like one of them and never die. The man refused to let
them, and he wanted to go back home because he was afraid; so Manama
said to let him go.

"The spirits took leaves of the _karan_ grass and tied to his legs, and
made a chain of the grass and let him down to the earth. When he reached
the earth he was no longer a man but was an owl."

(2) The second tale, which was recorded by P. Juan Doyle, S. J., is as
follows:

"In one of the torrents which has its origin at the foot of Apo, there
were two eels which, having acquired extraordinary magnitude, had no
room in so little water, on account of which they determined to
separate, each one taking a different direction in search of the sea or
the great lakes. One arrived, happily, at the sea by the Padada river,
and from it came eels in the sea. The other descending a torrent,
swimming and confining himself as well as he might, enclosed in these
narrow places, said to himself 'I haven't the slightest idea of what the
sea is