Ingiwan who is walking is confronted by high bank and is forced to cross the ocean.  Rides on his headaxe past the sleeping crocodiles which guard the maiden.  Turns self into firefly and reaches girl.  Assumes own form and chews betel-nut with her.  Omens are good.  He returns home and soon maiden is troubled with intense itching between her last fingers.  She has place pricked, and baby boy pops out.  Child grows one span at each bath.  Aponibalagen learns of child when milk from sister’s breasts falls on him.  He takes her home and prepares to celebrate balaua.  Oiled betel-nuts are sent to summon guests.  They grow on knees of those who refuse to attend.  Ingiwan, poorly clad, appears at the ceremony and is recognized by the child but not by its mother.  Girl’s brother, in rage, sends her away with the stranger.  He assumes own form and proves to be handsome and wealthy.  When they celebrate balaua, they chew betel-nut and thus learn who are his true parents.

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When Aponitolau goes to visit his cousin, he finds him celebrating Sayang.  He is incensed because no invitation has reached him, so sits in shade of tree near the spring instead of going up to the village.  He finds the switch lost by Aponibolinayen.  He is induced to attend the ceremony, where he meets with an old enemy, and they fight.  The hawk sees the struggle and reports the death of Aponitolau to his sister.  She sends her companions to avenge the death and they kill many people before they learn that the hawk was mistaken.  Aponitolau restores the slain to life.  He agrees to fight his enemies in two months.  Before he goes to battle he summons the old men and women, and has them examine a pig’s liver and gall.  The omens are favorable.  During the fight he becomes thirsty and his headaxe supplies him with water.  He stops the slaughter of his enemies when they agree to pay him one hundred valuable jars.  The jars and heads of the slain take themselves to his home.  A celebration is held over the heads, and skulls are exhibited around the town.

Aponitolau goes to return the switch of Aponibolinayen.  They chew betel-nuts and tell their names.  Their finger rings exchange themselves, while their betel quids turn to agate beads and arrange themselves in lines—­a sign of relationship.  He cooks a stick and it becomes a fish.  The girl vanishes, but Aponitolau turns himself into a firefly and finds her.  They remain together one night, then he departs.  On his way home he is seized by an immense bird which carries him to an island guarded by crocodiles.  He is forced to marry a woman also captured by the bird.

Aponibolinayen gives birth to a child called Kanag.  Child is delivered when an itching spot on mother’s little finger is pricked.  Kanag is kept in ignorance of father’s fate until informed by an old woman whom he has angered.  He goes in search of his father.  By using power of the betel-nut he is enabled to cross the water on the backs of sleeping crocodiles.  He kills gigantic snakes and finally the bird which had carried away his father.  He takes father and the captive woman back home.  Both women claim Aponitolau as husband.  A test is held and Aponibolinayen wins.