g to see her," said Kanag.

Not long after they arrived where the young girls spun at night. "Stay
here, Cousin Dagolayan, and I will meet you here. I am going to see
the daughter of Ginayod, who is Asimbayan of Ilang." "If that is
what you say it is all right," said Dagolayan. Not long after Kanag
reached the place where the girl was, and he talked with her. The girl
who never goes outdoors said to him, "If you will get the perfume
of Baliwan I will believe all you say." "If you will agree to my
mission I will go and get whatever you want," said Kanag. "Ala,
if you do not believe me, you take my arm beads from my left arm,
for you are kind to go for me." So she gave him her arm beads, and
Kanag started to go at once. As soon as he arrived at the place where
the young girls spun and had joined his companion, his cousin asked,
"What did she say?" "She told me that if I will secure the perfume of
Baliwan she will do everything I ask of her. Let us both go." "No, I
do not wish to go with you, for you will not go with me where I wish
to go." "Please come with me and another time I will go with you,"
said Kanag.

Not long after they went and they met the _doldoli_ [266] in the
way. "Where are you going, rich young men?" it said to them. "Where are
you going,' you say, and we are going to get the perfume of Baliwan,
for though we are far from it still we can smell it now." "Ala,
young men, you cannot go there, for when anyone goes there, only
his name goes back to his town." But the boys replied, "We are going
anyway. That is the reason we are already far from home, and it is the
thing the pretty girl wants." "If you say that you are going anyway,
you will repent when you reach there." "It is the thing which will
make the girls love us." So they left the jar and walked on. When they
reached the middle of the jungle they met a big frog, and it said,
"Where are you going, young men?" "'Where are we going,' you say,
and we are going to get the perfume of Baliwan, for that is what
Asimbayan of Ilang desires." "No, do not go there, for everyone who
has gone there has died." "We will go on anyway, for we are already
far from our town and we cannot return without the perfume." So they
left the frog and walked on. Not long after they approached the place
where the perfume was, and while they were still a long way off they
could smell its odor. "What a fine odor it has. That is why the young
girl who never goes outdoors desires it s