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birds and animals thai were feeding on the fruit. Aftei a 

 while he. fc io, heard voices from the clearing, and, 

 from thi 



in the direction whence the sounds an ise. Now when hi 

 w hich he had put 1 

 and observing from where the wind was blowinj 



: he clearing. Then he w< 

 fully in that direction and came to the house, where ! 

 the people complaining and saying that they could not keep 



I ir they were madi sleep} bj the fume ol the 

 that he kept blowing towards them as he smoked his cigan tte. 

 rhen each woman in the house left hei work and fell 

 asleep. So Bonsu Api went up into tin- house 



■ ■red with women lying there; foi the) had not had 

 time to become cockroaches bi fore they were overwhelmed by 

 the fumes of the chenduai. 



So he went through all thi I at last , in the uppei 



ti ■• he found a beautiful princ< ■-, who wai iwake, since 

 tduai fumes had not reached her. Then he threatened 

 to kill her, but she besi light him to relent, asking him why he 

 should wish to do so. Thereupon he told hei that her follow- 

 ■ killed his brothers, and she replied that, if it w 

 Idom lett her room. 

 So lie pardoned hi 1 n condition that she should find out 

 what had been done with the bodies of his brothers: bul th< 

 people below slept on and could not he wakened. However, 

 the pi incess at last found th th< ix brothi 



, Iron. Then Bonsu Api took the bones md heaped 

 them to ;ethei in fn ml of tl princess 



to follow him, saying that hi would kill heHfshedid not. 



°nied, and made read) for the journey. Now when 



she had co ne down from the hou e, Bonsu Api shut the door 



and sel fire to the walls and roof, so that all the people- inside 



1 he burnt. And Bonsu \pi p ke to them and said, 



■'lt\ ui wish to live, b& ome cocki 



times cockroaches ai ; and in future 



eat the fragments oi ire left by mankind." So 



they became 1 



As for Bonsu Api he brought his brotl ain and 



went In ane, taking the ni and hi- | rim e with him. 



r AND TAK KEMOIT. 1 



. Katil. 



andei 

 ing in the jungle. H oing down of the sun, 



the I A md of 1 ■ liuah 1. As 1 5 ing he 



came to Inch the fruits n 1 n light 



and mi ■ quiver and 1 



