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dead, but if it shuts and then opens again, I shall still be 

 alive." 



Then he set out, taking his knife with him, and made his 

 way through the jungle, cutting down as he went the big and 

 small trees that stood in the path. And the sound of the 

 great trees being cut and tailing was, " Prmig punggau, prung 

 punggaii, prung punggau." Now a man who happened to be 

 walking towards him, hearing the noise of the trees falling. 

 and being frightened that one of them might kill him, began 

 to call out, "Ail Ail Ail, I am coming towards you and 

 shall he struck by a tree ! " " What is your name ? " said 

 Budak Void Intoie and the newcomer replied, " My name is 

 Rah Serpik 1 (Pull-the-Canes)." Then answered Budak Yoid 

 Intoie, "If your name is Pull-the-Canes, well, pull the 

 canes!" So Rah Serpik pulled the canes out with one hand. 

 " Well," said Budak Yoid Intoie, " if you can do that, you are 

 rightly named Rah Serpik." So they stopped to chew betel- 

 nut, and Rah Serpik asked his companion what his name was, 

 to which he made reply, "Budak Yoid Intoie" (Big Knife 

 Youth). " Why, if that is so," said Rah Serpik, " u here's your 

 knife?" "I don't know," said Budak Yoid Intoie, "I have 

 not got it, it's only my name." Now he had hidden his knife 

 in a large tree. 



He, in his turn, asked Rah Serpik if he had a knife, and 

 Rah Serpik replied, " If I carried a knife my name would 

 not be Pull-the-Canes." Then he again asked Budak Yoid 

 Intoie for a knife, as he wanted to cut up the betel-nut, and 

 Budak Yoid Intoie said. " I have put it into the big tree over 

 there. If you can lift it, I will become your follower, but. 

 if you cannot, you shall become mine." 



So Rah Serpik went to get the knife, but was unable to 

 raise it, and Budak Yoid Intoie said, "Very well, you shall be 

 my follower." 



Then he got up and fetched it himself, and they chewed 

 betel-nut, and, when they had finished, set out en their 

 journey together, Rah Serpik following Budak Yoid Intoie, 

 while Budak Yoid Intoie cut down the trees that stood in the 

 way, toalang-trees, kempas-trees, merbau-trees, meranti-trees, or 

 whatever they were, " Prung punggau, prung punggau, prung 

 punggau." 



Soon another man cried out from in front of them, "Ail 

 Ail Ail" just as Rah Serpik had done before. So Budak 

 Yoid Intoie called the newcomer to him and asked him his 

 name, and he replied, "TinjuTebik" (Thump-the-Bankst." 

 Then said Budak Yoid Intoie, "Well, if your name is "Thump- 

 the-Banks," just thump the banks of this river!" So Tinju 

 Tebik" thumped the banks of the river with his fist, and they 

 fell down and blocked the stream. 



■ Rimtun maiiau in Malay Rotan maua 

 cane which is collected bv the Sakai for sale 



