[133] A semi-aquatic lizard of the Philippines that lays edible eggs, and otherwise answers to the description of the Varanus, or Monitor.

[134] This story, in an abbreviated form, was found by Clara Kern Bayliss at Laguna (cf. this Journal, vol. xxi, p. 46 (1908)).

[135] Roro, “slide;” s prefix (euphonic or formal, used by mountain Bagobo before vowels and many consonant sounds, as the labial p here); punno, “tortoise.”

[136] Langag, “look;” -ka (suffix, second person nominative), “you;” pudung, “shut;” -nu (pronominal suffix), “your;” yan (demonstrative pronoun), “that,” “those;” mata, “eyes.”

[137] Luit (transitive verb and noun), “peel,” “shell;” -ko (suffix, first person pronominal).  “I;” ’ni (abbreviated from ini), “this,” “here.” in sense of “at hand;” sebad. “one;” abok, “piece;” saging, “banana.”

[138] See footnote 5, p. 32.

[139] A white powder (calcined shell) that is sprinkled on the betel-nut.  It is made by burning certain shells to ashes, and mixing with water.

[140] The stem of a mountain-plant that is chewed in lack of betel-nut.  It blackens the teeth, like betel.

[141] Basio’, term used of any old palma brava tree that has been broken down or felled, and lies on the ground (supa, “drag,” “lower;” tapo, “penis").

[142] A short, pointed iron tool; used to punch ornamental designs in brass ornaments, especially bracelets and leglets.

[143] In a slightly different version, the tortoise tells the monkeys to bore into his ear with the tiuk, a brass wire that forms a part of the hinge of a betel-box.

[144] The distal opening of the urethra.

[145] A small edible fruit with an acid pulp and red-and-white skin.

[146] A light-weight bamboo with slender, thorny branches, very inflammable, and used where a rapid-burning and intense fire is needed (bale ["house"], kayo ["wood"]).  This wood is extensively used in building the lighter parts of the framework of a house.

[147] This story came to the Bagobo from a young man of the Ata tribe, whose habitat is the mountainous country in the interior, to the northwest of the Gulf of Davao.

[148] “Alelu’k” and “Alebu’tud” are Ata names, for which the Bagobo forms are respectively Bungen and Batol.

[149] The long handle or rod of a spear, tipped with a sharp-pointed iron cone; equally useful for killing animals, and, driven into the ground, for supporting the spear when at rest.  The same name (tidalan) is applied to the shaft of a spear lacking the blade, and carried by old people like a mountain-staff.

[150] A vessel formed of a single internode of bamboo, in which water is brought from the river, and kept in the house.