Having arrived at Kiángan, they took up their lodging in the
house of Kinggáuan's mother--the man entering first and then
Búgan. The mother of the former was surprised, and asked him:
"Who is this woman?" The son answered: "I was at the hunting place
and she presented herself to me there and I do not know whence
she comes." The aged mother after having looked at them a little
while--when seated--addressed herself to Búgan and asked: "Who art
thou? How dost thou call thyself? From whence dost thou come?" The
maiden replied that her name was Búgan, that she was the daughter
of Hinumbían and Dakáue, and that she belonged to the sky region of
Luktág. But the reason of her descent to that terraqueous region,
and of accompanying her son, was her having seen him so poor and
deserted * * * "for which reason I took pity on him and came down
to visit him and to furnish him with an abundance of game" * *
* and she added that on the following day the mother should send
many people to collect the dead game which they had left in the
lonely hut of her son. By a coincidence, the mother of the young
man was also called Búgan, with the addition of na kantaláo.
During all this, the young couple had already been united in the
bond of matrimony--without any of the prescribed formalities--at
the place called Pangagáuan, and Búgan gave birth to a vigorous
son to whom she gave the name Balitúk. The little pigs, also,
which they had brought, gave forth their fruit. The child grew
a little, but he did not yet know how to walk. His mother,
Búgan, as a being from the Sky World, did not eat like the
rest of the people of Kiángan, but desired only boiled rice,
birds, and meat of game. Those of that region bore her much envy
because of her being a stranger; and, because they knew she did
not like certain vegetables of theirs, they strove to make her
depart from their town and to betake herself to her birthplace
of Luktág in the sky. Their envy toward her increased upon their
seeing the abundance of her fowls and pigs. With the object,
then, of disgusting her, and of driving her away, they attempted
to surround her house with certain garden stuffs, greens, and
fish. With these they succeeded effectively in making Búgan fall
sick with an intense itch and fever; for which reason she abandoned
that house and went to another place, while her husband moved to
a rice granary. But they persecuted her again in her new place
of lodging, surrounding it with the vegetables and other things
spoken of above, and causing her nausea in a stomach accustomed to
other food. In view of such wearisome tricks, Búgan proposed to
Kinggáuan her desire to return to her land with the new blossom
of spring, their child. Her husband answered her: "I should
well like to accompany thee, but I am afraid of ascending to so
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