iqiS.] I. II. N. Evans: Ethnoi lanea. 215 



Then Tinju Tebik : asked Budak Yoid Intoie his name 

 and he told him. " If that is youi name," said Tinju Tebik" , 

 ■'where is your knife? " " I don't know." replied Yoid Intoie. 



So they sat down to chew betel-nut and Budak Void [ntoie 

 asked Tinju Tebik" if he had a knife to cut the nut into pie< es 

 with, but Tinju Tebik" answered, "If I had a knife, my 

 namewouldnot be Thump-th< Banks." Aftei a little Tinju 

 Tebik" asked Budak Void Intoie it he had not got a knife and 

 Budak Void Intoie told him where it was hidden, making him 

 promise, just as he had done with Rah Serpik, to become his 

 follower, if he could not lift it. But Tinju Tebik" was not able 

 to raise the knife any more than Rah Serpik, and Budak Yoid 

 Intoie went and got it himself. 



When they had finished chewing their betel-nut, they set 

 out ag in. Budak Void Intoie being in front, with Kali Serpik 

 and Tinju Tebik" following him ; and the sound of the trees 

 being cut and falling before Budak Void Intoie was, " Prung 

 punggau, prung punggau, prung punggau." 



After .i lutle time someone cried out from in front as before, 

 and again Budak Void Intoie called the newcomer to him. 

 "What is your name'-'" said Budak Void Intoie, and the 

 stranger replied, " Lingkong Benua (Push-the-Country- 

 Round)." "Oh," said Budak Void Intoie, "if your name is 

 Push-the Country-Round, well, just push the country round!" 

 So Lingkong Benua pushed the country round, till its back- 

 bone was broken ; and Budak Void Intoie said to him, " Your 

 name is rightly Lingkong Benua." 



So they sat down to chew betel-nut and Lingkong Benua 

 asked Budak Yoid Intoie for his knife, and was not able to lift 

 it any more than Rah Serpik or Tinju Tebik" had been able 

 to do. 



After a while they continued their journey, and at last they 

 came to the sea and wished to cross it : and Budak Void Intoie 

 said to his companions. " Wait here, while I go and search for 

 a bridge." So he searched, but could not find any. Then he 

 took his knife and said to it. " Tohoii yang sah! Eng sindrang 

 sah! Eng saihih! Eng putau! Eng nttjum! Eng blian! Yoidengjadi 

 papaV ." and the knife in its sheath became a bridge on which 

 they could cross the sea. But a large dragon came up from 

 below and waited under the bridge. 



Then they went across. Budak Yoid Intoie's comp 

 being in front of him ; and when they came to the other side. 

 Budak Yoid Intoie drew his knife from its sheath and cut off 

 the dragon's head: and it floated away until it came to a Ra- 

 ja's bathing-place, and there it remained. 



1 I could not get a true translation of some of this charm " Tohoit yaug 

 sah" seems to bean invocation of some ku ^ (I luck-bringing) 



'E«g Hujum (I astrologer) . 1 



(I were-tiger), Wnd tag iadi papal (Knife I become plank), 



