r people from the other towns
arrived where they were making _Sayang_ and Aponitolau tried to put
the belt on each person to see if it fitted and no one was the right
size. As soon as Don Carlos arrived Aponitolau tried the belt on him
and it was all right. So Aponitolau gave him the belt and he got a
golden chair and he put it in the middle of the party and made Don
Carlos sit on it. All of the people were dancing and Aponitolau went
and sharpened his headaxe. Not long after, "Ala, you Aponibolinayen
take Kanag and Alama-an with you and dance with Don Carlos." Not
long after they danced. While they were dancing Aponitolau cut off
the head of Don Carlos. The head sprang up and went to the breast of
Aponibolinayen, and Aponibolinayen and Kanag and Alama-an ran away,
and their clothes were torn, for they ran through many thorns.

Not long after the people who went to attend the _Sayang_ went
home, and Aponibolinayen and Kanag and Alama-an arrived in a level
plain. They went to the shade of an _alosip_ [185] tree and they sat
there many days, for they were very tired. "I am anxious to drink
water," said Aponibolinayen, and not long after they heard a rooster
crowing. "I think we are near a town, for I hear a rooster crowing." So
they went where they had heard the rooster. "We go and drink," said
Aponibolinayen. Not long after they reached the place where _Silit_
(one kind of lightning) and the dog _Kimat_ [186] guarded. _Silit_ and
the dog were sleeping and did not see them go inside of the town. Soon
they arrived in the yard of the golden house of Balbalaoga of Dona and
they were ashamed to ask for water to drink, for they were naked. So
they went to the _balaua_ and slept, for they were tired.

While they were sleeping, Balbalaoga saw them in his _balaua_, and
he was surprised, because no one was permitted to enter the town,
for _Silit_ and the dog prevented. He said, "What is the matter of the
guards that they did not see those people enter the town? Perhaps they
are my relatives." So he took some clothes to the _balaua_ for them. He
covered them with blankets while they slept. As soon as he covered
them he sat down in the _balaua_ and waited until they got up. As soon
as Aponibolinayen awoke she saw him and said, "Do not wound us in
many places, so we will not need to cure so much." Balbalaoga said,
"If I were an enemy I would have killed you while you slept. We are
going to chew betel-nut and see who you are." So he