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Since they have the bad sign again, they say to the others—those who make the poles stand—“We are very tired always to dig and dig, and to make stand and make stand those poles, we go ahead to make the house,” and they placed their lumber and they went—one family of the Īpogau. Then they finished what they built, their house. There was nothing good for them, and there was nothing which was not their sickness (i.e., they had all manner of sickness).

“My wife,” said Kabonīyan, “give me the coconut oil, that I oil my spear, for I go to see those Īpogau who are sick.” When those Īpogau who were sick were in their house, his spear fell in their house. “What is the matter with you, Īpogau?” said Kabonīyan. “What is the matter with you, you say, and there is nothing which we do not do for our sickness, and we are never cured,” said those Īpogau. And Kabonīyan answered, “How can you become cured of your sickness when you have a bad sign for that which you made—your house? The reason of your sickness is because you do not make Sangásang. The good way (is) you find a rooster, and that you command the one who knows how to make dīam of the Sangásang to make Sangásang. Page 176I (am) always the one for whom you make dīam,” said Kabonīyan. And truly, before they had finished making Sangásang, it was as if there had been nothing wrong, that family was cured of their sickness.