7.  The men who had been left without women were anxious to procure some, and one day saw the shape of human beings sliding down the trees, whom they could not catch.  But by employing four men who had rough hands from a disease like the itch, these four strange beings were caught.

8.  Finding those beings wanted the parts of women, they caught certain birds named turiri cahuvaial, resembling woodpeckers, and by their means fashioned them to their purpose.

9.  There was once a man named Giaia, who had a son named Giaiael, which signifies the son of Giaia; and who, intending to kill his father was banished and afterwards killed by his father, and his bones hung up in a calabash.  Afterwards going to examine the bones, he found them all changed into a vast number of great and small fishes.

10.  There were four brothers, the sons of a woman named Itiba Tahuvava, all born at one birth, for the woman dying in labour they cut her open.  The first they cut out was named Diminan, and was a caracaracol, or afflicted with a disease like the itch, the others had no names.  One day while Giaia was at his conichi or lands, these brothers came to his house and took down the calabash to eat the fish; but not hanging it up properly, there ran out so much water as drowned the whole country, and with it great quantities of fish:  And in this manner they believe the sea had its original.

11.  After a long story of a live tortoise being cut out from the shoulder of Diminan Caracaracol, quite away from the purpose, F. Roman proceeds to say that the sun and moon came out of a grotto called Giovovava, in the country of a cacique named Maucia Tiuvel.  This grotto is much venerated, and is all painted over with the representation of leaves and other things.  It contained two cemis made of stone, about a quarter of a yard long, having their hands bound, and which looked as if they sweated.  These were called Boinaiel and Maroio, and were much visited and honoured, especially when they wanted rain.

12.  They say the dead go to a place called Coaibai, which is in a part of the island named Soraia; and that one Machetaurie Guaiava, who was lord or cacique of Coaibi, the dwelling-place of the dead, was the first who went there.

13.  They say that the dead are shut up during the day, and walk abroad in the night, when they feed on a certain fruit called guabazza, which is something else during the day and changes to that fruit at night for the use of the dead.  The dead go about and feast with the living, who sometimes think they have a woman of Coaibi in their arms who vanishes suddenly; and they allege that those dead inhabitants of Coaibi may be known by the want of navels.  The souls of the living they name goeiz, those of the dead opia.