Agel ni Ermag 

The washed there, they would go and wash at Erromango, but they,

they would wash at Erromango, they were a group of women.

Young girls. They would stand on a bush and fly.

They flew to Erromango to wash.

And they do this every time.

They went and washed until it was enough, you don't do that.

And I'll tell it how we first heard it.

Yes

But I'll tell it first and you listen. He said, they go, they go, but they..

They are far up there, it might be,

where is that?

the hill there, eh?

(L) Monmartre (M) Monmartre.

(M) Eh? No it's not Montmartre,

that place that I just told about, where the man was feeding his pig.

(N) Bufa. (M) Bufa, you look! (N) Yes.

You're going to know our villages [laughs]

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oi, a.a.

They were there, at Bufa, and

they wanted to go and wash over there.

They just started to fly and went.

They went.

When they wanted to go, they ...

They closed their wings until they were ready, They left.

They left, they flew until they went to Erromango.

They stood up on Erromango, at some water (river). There's lots of water on Erromango, but I don't know which water they got to.

Then, they went in order to wash, they washed until they finished.

But this man hid, he hid and he looked at them.

They washed and washed then came

to shore like this, you know they changed.

Like that. They did that,

they put their wings on like that, and they flew, they wanted to fly,

But one was missing her wings.

And she felt bad because of it. They looked and looked but they couldn't find them there.

But the man who was hiding hid the girl's wing.

And that time, the sun was going down, and these ones all went.

But this girl cried for her wings.

She cried for it and cried for them.

They were there, they said, "You stay, but we will go."

They left, but she stayed.

She stayed and stayed until the man who was hiding came.

He came to say, he was going to lie, "Are you looking for something?" And he said,

"Hey, but your wing might be here, or someone might have taken it."

But he had taken it.

He covered it up for all this time.

They all came and he said, "I think someone hid your wing."

And he took her and went, he took her and they both slept.

He took her and went, they slept until she became that man's wife.

On and on and he still covers it with a giant clam shell.

But he hid it well, and she stayed on until she had two children, two sons.

Children of this man. The man stayed on, then he said, "You stay, but I will go to the garden."

When he went to the garden, he stayed there until dark, he came back to the woman who was there.

But they didn't find this thing, and she stayed and she was his wife, but

she still thought about her people who had gone.

They came and tried to go but-, she said, "My wing is still missing. I will stay here."

She stayed and stayed until

one time, and

the two children said they wanted them to make them a bow.

And they kept shooting, they shot-. And the bow.

And they shot small animals that go inside...

This animal, you know geckos?

It wanted to escape and it ran inside this clam shell.

When the other one turned like this he just found this big thing of his mother's.

But the husband had gone to the garden.

He had gone and stayed at the garden, but

the child discovered it and just took it and went.

He told his mother, "Hey."

his father-, his mother, he told her, "I found this thing and it is really beautiful."

So he showed her and she laughed and said, "Oh I am glad to see this."

And she said, "Now I'll make their food, but I'll see if these (wings) work. Maybe they still work."

She made food for them, that she would leave for them.