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situated. So he said to himself, " Perhaps that is where my 

 brother went." Then he climbed down from the tree, and, 

 heaping together the bodies of the beasts that he had shot, he 

 left them there with his blow -pipe and chopper and went in 

 the direction of the sounds. When he got to the patch of 

 sugar-cane the hen cackled loudly (and, as before, the | i i pli 

 of the house became cockroaches and hid themselves), lie. 

 too, on coming to the open spai e in front of the hi -use called 

 out, " Hoi, people ! Hoi, sister ! " but nobody answered him. 



So he went up into the house and found no one there, but 

 food and sireh set out ready. He waited for some time, but as 

 nobody came, and he felt hungry, at last he said, " If this is 

 the spirits' food it will be savourless, but if for human beings 

 it will be salt." Then he tasted the food, and finding it salt, 

 ate his fill. Next he drank water and after this he took sireh 

 and chewed it. The first quid that he chewed tasted sweet, 

 the second rich, the third intoxicating and the fourth sweet. 

 And he also felt dizzy and went to sleep. Upon this the ce>ck- 

 roaches came out and ate him up ; and they hid his bones 

 under a big cauldron, where they had also hidden those of his 

 brother. 



Now when he did not come home either, the third brother 

 took up the search, and met with the same fate, as did also the 

 fourth, fifth and six. 



At last the youngest brother. Bonsu Api, said to himself, 

 " How is it that my brothers do not come home ?" 



That night his grandfather came to him in a dream, and 

 he asked him how it was that his brothers had not relumed, 

 and where they had gone to. 



The grandfather replied that they had not come home 

 because they had been killed by the Cockroach Demons 

 (RengkasP Lipas). 



"What am I to do about them," said Bonsu Api, " and 

 how am I to kill them ?" " You must give chendnai 2 to them," 

 said his grandfather. 



Then Bonsu Api awoke and. remembering his dream, he 

 thought that he also would follow his brother.-. So he told his 

 father and mother' of his desire and, having made his prepar- 

 ations, on the next morning he set out. 



He. too, fame to the hut where his brothers had slept and 

 found the fruit-tree, where they had left their blow pipes and 

 quivers; and the heap of rotting game under the tree was as big 

 as a large ant's-nest, and the quivers and blow-pipes, which 

 had been left there by thi brothers who had preceded him. were 

 already partly destroyed b) "whiti ant." 



Then he thought "t what his grandfather had said to him 

 in his dream. So he also climbed up into the tiee and shot the 



i Rengkasi, the Malay G i 



2 A herb from which the Sakai m 



