Next day the Moglung had a talk with the Malaki, and said, “Now I want to live with you; but you remember that other woman, Maguay Bulol, that you used to sleep with.  You will want her too, and you had better send for her.”

So the Malaki summoned Maguay Bulol, and in a few minutes Maguay Bulol was there.  Then the Malaki had two wives, and they all lived in the same house forever.

The Tuglay and the Bia

Long ago, in the days of the Mona, the Tuglay lived on a high mountain.  He lived very well, for his cocoanut-trees grew on both sides of the mountain.  But he had no hemp-plants, and so he had to make his clothes of the soft dry sheath that covers the trunk of the cocoanut-palm (bunut).  This stuff caught fire easily, and many a time his clothes ignited from the flame where his dinner was cooking, and then he would have to make fresh garments from bunut.

One day he looked from his house over the neighboring mountains, and saw the village of Koblun.  He thought it looked pretty in the distance.  Then he looked in another direction, and saw the town of the Malaki Tuangun, and said, “Ah! that is just as nice looking as the Koblun town.  I will go and see the town of the Malaki Tuangun.”

Immediately he got ready for the journey.  He took his spear (that was only half a spear, because the fire had burned off a part of the handle) and his shield, that was likewise only half a shield.  He started out, and walked on and on until he reached the mountains called “Pabungan Mangumbiten.”

Now, on another mountain there lived a young man named the Malaki Itanawa, with his little sister.  They lived alone together, for they were orphans.  The young girl said to her brother, “Let us travel over the mountains to-day.”

And the boy answered, “Yes, my sister, we will go.”

And the two climbed over the hills, and they reached the Pabungan Mangumbiten soon after the Tuglay.  And they were astonished to see the great Tuglay.  But when the Tuglay saw the young girl, who was named Bia Itanawa Inelu, [93] he was so bewildered and startled that he turned away his eyes, and could not look at the sister and brother.

Then the girl prepared a betel-nut and offered it to the Tuglay, but he did not like to accept it.  But when she had pressed it upon him many times, he took the betel and chewed it.

Then the girl said, “Come with my brother and me to my house, for we have no companion.”

But when the girl saw the Tuglay hesitate, she asked him, “Where were you going when we met you?”

The Tuglay answered, “I want to go to the town of the Malaki Tuangun, for to my home has come the word that the Malaki is a mighty man, and his sister a great lady.”

Then the girl looked at the Tuglay, and said, “If you want to make ready to go to the Malaki Tuangun’s town, you ought to put on your good trousers and a nice jacket.”