“The best way for us to do, Dapilisan, is for us to make Sayang” said Kanag. So Dapilisan commanded someone to go and get the betel-nut fruit which was covered with gold. Not long after, “Ala, you betel-nuts which are covered with gold come here and oil yourselves, and go and invite all the people to come and attend our Sayang.” So the betel-nuts oiled themselves and they went to invite the people in the different towns. Not long after they went. One of the betel-nuts went to Kadalayapan, and one went where Kanag’s sweetheart lived. Some of them went to Pindayan and Donglayan, which is the home of Iwaginan and Gimbangonan.
Not long after Aponibolinayen was anxious to chew betel-nut. “I am going to chew. What ails me, for I am so anxious to chew? I had not intended to eat anything while Kanag is away.” She looked up at her basket, and she saw that an oiled betel-nut, which was covered with gold, was in it. She picked it up and tried to cut it. “Do not cut me, for I came to invite you, for Kanag and his wife Dapilisan sent me to summon you to their Sayang in Kalaskigan,” said the betel-nut. Aponibolinayen was glad when she heard that Kanag was alive. So she got up and told all the people of Kadalayapan to wash their hair so that they might attend the Sayang in Kalaskigan. The people asked who was making Sayang in Kalaskigan, and she replied that it was Kanag and his wife Dapilisan. Not long after they washed their clothes and hair, and took a bath. When it became afternoon they went and Aponitolau followed them, and he looked as if he was crazy. As soon as they arrived at the river near the town of Kalaskigan, Kanag saw them and there were many of them by the river. He sent crocodiles and they went to take the people across the river. Aponitolau was the first who rode on one of the crocodiles and the crocodile dived, so Aponitolau went back again to the bank of the river. Not long after Aponitolau’s companions were all on the other side of the river, and he was alone, for the crocodiles would not carry him across. He shouted as if crazy, and Kanag sent one of the crocodiles to get him. Not long after one crocodile went where Aponitolau was, and he stood on its back and it took him to the other side of the river.
When they all sat down beside the river, Dalonagan said, “What shall we use for the alawig, [249] for your father and mother?” “The singed pig, for it is the custom of the people in Kadalayapan,” said Kanag to his mother-in-law. “Go and get some of the pigs and singe them,” said Dalonagan to him. Not long after he singed the pigs and he carried them to the people, and his wife Dapilisan carried one little jar which looked like a fist, filled with basi. As soon as the woman who was making Sayang had finished the diam [250] near by the well, Dapilisan made the people drink the basi which she carried. Each person drank from a golden cup filled with basi from out of the little jar which looked like a fist, and one third of the basi in the jar was still left. [251] As soon as the people drank they took them up to the town.


