live in Kai-áng, but to live in Otbóbon, and cut down the trees and make a clearing there, and then to get together dry grass; and that they make use of the steel for striking fire, holding it together in this manner, and burying it in the grass. And on making the clearing if they see that snakes, owls, or other things of evil omen approach, it is a sign that they are going to die or to have misfortunes. But if they do not approach them, it is a sign that it will go well with them in that place; that the soil will be productive, and that they will be happy." IV The journey to Ifugao land from the East.--Upon the return of Muntálog, at the termination of the fourth day, he said to Búgan and Kabigát: "Now ye can go but let Ngílîn and Ambúmabbákal accompany you as far as the house of Lingan, [42] in order that there they may make the cloth or clothes necessary for wrapping the child according to the usage of the Earth World." Lingan actually furnished to them the cloth and the seamstress to make the swaddling clothes for the child--and then they continued their journey unto the house of Ambúmabbákal. The latter said to them: "Take this cloth and this pair of fowls, male and female, and do not return to live at Kai-áhang but go to Otbóbon." And Ambúmabbákal accompanied them to the house of Ngílîn á Mangóngan [43] and said to the latter: "It will be well if we beseech the búni [44] to take pity on these poor people, considering the great distance that still remains to them unto Otbóbon, and keeping in mind also the great heat that prevails." So they did, saying: "Ye búni, take pity upon these unhappy ones and shorten for them the distance." The prayer was heard, and after two or three days they found themselves at the end of their journey. V The peopling of Ifugao land.--Having arrived at Otbóbon, they built a temporary hut on fertile land. Later they constructed a good house, and it was just after it was finished that Búgan gave birth to a healthy boy; and the fowls also procreated. The child grew a little, but there came to him an unlooked-for sickness. Then Kabigát remembered that Ambúmabbákal had advised them to offer fowls to their ancestors in case any sickness should come upon them. So they killed a rooster and a hen, and offered them to Ampúal, Wigan, and their other ancestors. The child recovered and began to grow very robust and plump. They named him Balitúk. Búgan conceived again, and she gave birth to a strong girl, to whom she gave the name of Lingan. These children grew up, and, having attained a marriageable age, were married like their parents, and gave origin to the Silipanes. [45]