about the world. As soon as they came near
to the palace of the king they alighted on a tree and they watched the
princesses in the windows and hawks said, "_Tingi_." The princesses
heard the word "_Tingi_," and they were Ganinawan and Asigtanan. They
saw the birds from the window, and the hawks flew by them and the
princesses stroked their feathers, because they were pretty.

Soon the hawks seized them in their talons and flew away with them
and carried them to Pindayan. Not long after they reached there and
Iwaginan and Indayo were very glad, and they made a big party and they
invited the king. The king had been searching for them for a long
time. Some of the spirit helpers who had gone to the palace said,
"Good morning. We came here to invite you, for Iwaginan and Indayo
sent us. They are making a big party for those princesses for whom you
are searching, for we took them to Pindayan, and Iwaginan and Indayo
married them." When the king heard the news he was glad, and he went
to the party. Indayo and Iwaginan made him dance when he arrived, and
Kanag and Dagolayen went to that party. Not long after they put those
girls, whom Iwaginan and Indayo had stolen, in their belts and they
did not know what had become of their wives and they were sorry. Kanag
and Dagolayen took them home. When they arrived home they told their
names and they chewed betel-nut and they found that it was good for
them to be married, instead of Iwaginan and Indayo. Kanag married
Asigtanan and Dagolayen married Ganinawan. The mother of Ganinawan
was Aponibolinayen and the mother of Asigtanan was Aponigawani.

As soon as they were married and they had learned who their mothers
were they built _balaua_, and they sent some betel-nuts to invite all
of their relatives in other towns. Iwaginan and Indayo went to attend
the _balaua_, and they danced. They saw that those girls were their
wives and they tried to take them back home, but Kanag and Dagolayen
would not let them. They said it was not good for them to be married
even though they wished to be married to them, because the girls would
become oil when they went close to them. So Indayo and Iwaginan were
very sorry. Ganinawan was the sister of Kanag and Asigtanan was the
sister of Dagolayen. They did not find out that they were related
until Indayo and Iwaginan took them, for their mothers had lost them
in miscarriages, and the girls became women by themselves, and the
king found them.

(Told by