As soon as the next day came they prepared jars of basi, [128] and pigs to be carried to Natpangan, and Aponitolau carried one large empty jar. [129] So they went.  As soon as they arrived Aponitolau asked where Gimbangonan was, and the people said, “Look at the big woman.”  He looked and saw that she was a very big woman and Aponitolau cried, for she was not the girl he had seen before, and he bent his head.  While the old men were talking to each other Gimbangonan said to Aponitolau, “Come here, Aponitolau.  Be very happy.  Why do you bend your head?” Aponitolau did not listen, and he did not go.  Not long after Langa-an and the others went back home and left Aponitolau to be joined to Gimbangonan.  Aponitolau was afraid to go to Gimbangonan, for she was a very big woman.  She called to him all the time, but he did not go to her.  It-tonagan was restless and did not stay in the house even in the night, and they could not sleep.

After ten days Aponitolau said, “I am going to Kadalayapan for a little while.  I will return soon.”  “If you go to Kadalayapan I will go with you,” she said.  “Do not go this time and I will take you next time,” he said, and he went.  When he was near the gate of the town of Kadalayapan he hung his head until he reached his house.  His mother asked why he hung his head.  “I do not wish to marry Gimbangonan for she is not the woman I met by the river.”  “Do not be angry with me for I did what you wished.  I would not have engaged you to Gimbangonan if you had not sent me.”  They sent their liblibayan [130] to go and get betel-nuts which were covered with gold, for they intended to make Sayang, so that they could find out who the woman was who had been by the river.  Soon the liblibayan returned and they said, “We did not get the betel-nuts which you desired for we found a pretty toy among the branches of the tree.”  Aponitolau took the branch of the tree which shone as if covered with fire and he put a blanket on it and many pillows around it.  As soon as they had again commanded the liblibayan to get the betel-nuts they went and soon they arrived with the fruit.  They oiled the betel-nuts and sent them to every place in the world and if anyone refused to come they were to grow on their knees.  Not long after the betel-nuts went to the different towns and invited all the people.

When they arrived they danced and Aponitolau looked at them to see if the woman he met at the river was there, but she was not among them, and he wondered what had become of the woman, for the betel-nuts had gone to all parts of the world.  Aponitolau went into the house for he was sorrowful, and he laid down near the blankets and he noticed that the blankets appeared as if on fire and he was frightened. [131] He got up and unwrapped the blankets and he saw a pretty girl.  “I did not think you were here.  I have been engaged.  You said your name was Gimbangonan, and I sent my mother to engage me to you, but when