On the way down from Belualaruchel, from the hillside, he caught a small bird called
chesisebangiau (cardinal honey-eater), like a red robin.
It is a small-sized bid with a red color, red-chested and kind of
black wings. So he caught one on the way down from the
Belualaruchel down to here.
All the gods went to the area down
by the pier known as Tab, to the site known as Ngeremenglong. There
is a house there now. When they went there, then each one attempted
to throw a tone to Ngerduais island, but everybody failed since the
stones only fell into the lagoon. That's because the island is of
course way out by the reef.
After each of the gods failed to
throw a stone to the island, it became Medechiibelau's turn.
On the way down he put the cardinal honey-eater inside his mouth,
pretending that he was chewing betel nut, but basically keeping the
bird alive. Then when his turn came, he took the bird from his
mouth, kind of secretly so nobody could realize it, then he threw
that bird, and it started flapping its wings.
When he threw the cardinal
honey-eater, it began to flap its wings and he would say to his friends
the gods, "well that is my betel nut, it is opening." When you chew
betel nut, sometimes it can open like a husk opens up. So he was
telling his friends "that is my betel nut, it is opening now."
And the bird flew all the way to the
top of the type of pine tree, ngas, that was standing on top of
the ridge. And he perched on the bough of that tree. If you go to
the island of Ngerduais today, that ngas is still standing at the
very top of the limestone ridge. So Medechibelau claimed the island to
be his.
