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As soon as she ate the oranges she went to look at the lawed vine by the stove and it was wilted, and she knew that Aponitolau was dead. Not long after Aponibolinayen gave birth and every time they bathed the baby it grew one span and soon it was large. He often went to play with the other children and his mother gave him a golden top which had belonged to his father when he was a little boy.
When they arrived in Kadalayapan they played the gansa and danced, and Aponibolinayen heard the sound of the gansa, and she was anxious to go, but her spirit companion would not let her go. They saw that the lawed vine was green.
Her child Kanag is born when an itching spot between her third and fourth fingers is pricked. Child grows with each bath. He agrees to go with other boys to fight. Plants a lawed vine which is to keep his mother informed as to his condition. Child's father is with war party, but does not recognize son.
"I did not tell the truth for I feared you would not return, for no one who has gone there has returned, so I am patient about my headache." "Ala, go and get rice straw, and I will wash my hair." Not long after he went to wash his hair. When he finished washing his hair he went to get one lawed vine, and he went back home. He planted the vine by the hearth.
Giant promises him the fruit provided he eats whole carabao. Chiefs of ants and flies calls their followers and eat animal for him. Is allowed to pick fruit, but branches of tree are sharp knives on which he is cut. He puts two of oranges on his spear and it flies away to his home. He dies and lawed vine at his house withers.
As soon as he had sharpened his headaxe he went to where Kanag was dancing and he cut off his head. When Aponibolinayen looked at the lawed vine each leaf was wilted. "Grandmother, the lawed vine which Kanag planted is wilted," said Aponibolinayen. "I am going to get him." So she went and as she approached the place where Ligi used to live he saw her.
To-day betel-nut is less common in this region, but this leaf and the areca-nut still play an important part in all ceremonies. According to tradition, it was possible in the old times to tell the fate of an absent friend by noting the condition of a lawed vine planted by him prior to his departure. The vine is now trained on poles and trellises, near to many houses.
After their marriage Aponitolau goes to his field. There he keeps many kinds of jars which act like cattle. He feeds them with lawed leaves and salt. While he is gone, the woman to whom he was first betrothed kills his new wife. He restores her to life. Takes her and her parents to the field to see him feed his jars. A bird directs Aponitolau in his search for the maiden Asibowan.
And Aponibolinayen said, "Perhaps it is the boy from Kaodanan." "We agreed to go to fight, day after tomorrow. Make cakes for me to take with me." "No, do not go, for I fear that your father will meet you." "No, I am going. I will plant the lawed vine by the stove, and if it wilts I am dead," he said.
Not long after Aponibolinayen went with him. When they arrived at the spring they washed their hair. As soon as they washed their hair they went to get the lawed vine and they went back home. As soon as they reached home Aponitolau said to Aponibolinayen, "Will you comb my hair? I am anxious to go to fight." So Aponibolinayen combed his hair.
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