died before that time.  It is said that the god Captan, on hearing this, sent the flies to ascertain who the dead one was; but, as the flies did not dare to go, Captan sent the weevil, who brought back the news of the shark’s death.  The god Captan was displeased at these obsequies to a fish.  He and Maguayen made a thunderbolt, with which they killed Pandaguan; he remained thirty days in the infernal regions, at the end of which time the gods took pity upon him, brought him back to life, and returned him to the world.  While Pandaguan was dead, his wife Lubluban became the concubine of a man called Maracoyrun; and these people say that at that time concubinage began in the world.  When Pandaguan returned, he did not find his wife at home, because she had been invited by her friend to feast upon a pig that he had stolen; and the natives say that this was the first theft committed in the world.  Pandaguan sent his son for Lubluban, but she refused to go home, saying that the dead do not return to the world.  At this answer Pandaguan became angry, and returned to the infernal regions.  The people believe that, if his wife had obeyed his summons, and he had not gone back at that time, all the dead would return to life. [Blank space in MS.] Inheritances, and their inventor.  Their ceremonies.  The omentum [15].

Another belief, that of the mountaineers, who are called Tinguianes

The Tinguianes believe that in the beginning were only the sea and the sky; and that one day a kite, having no place where to alight, determined to set the sea against the sky.  Accordingly, the sea declared war against the sky, and threw her waters upward.  The sky, seeing this, made a treaty of peace with the sea.  Afterward, to avenge himself upon her for having dared to assert herself, they say that he showered upon the sea all the islands of this archipelago, in order to subdue her; and that the sea ran to and fro without being able to rise again.  They say that from this event arose the custom of mavaris—­that is, taking vengeance for an insult received, a very common practice in this land; and they consider it a point of honor to take revenge.  Then they relate also the story of the reed; but they say that the kite pecked the reed, and the aforesaid man and woman came out.  They add that the first time when Cavahi gave birth to children, she brought forth a great number at once.  One day the father went home, very angry, and threatened the children.  The latter were frightened and fled; some into the most hidden rooms of the house; some hid in other places nearer the open air; some hid themselves within the dindines, or walls of the houses, which are constructed of reeds; some in the fireplace; and some fled to the sea through the same door by which the father had entered.  It is said that those who fled to the most hidden rooms are the chiefs of these islands; those who remained nearer the outside are the timaguas; those who hid themselves within the walls are the slaves; those who hid themselves in the fireplace are the blacks; and those who fled out to the sea through the open door, are the Spaniards, and that they had no news of us until they beheld us return through the sea.