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The child then called all the monkeys to return, and 

 they captured Ulung Tiung and carried him to their 

 house and wanted to kill him. "Don't kill me," he said, 

 "I can find fruit in the utan." The monkeys permitted 

 him to do that, and told him to return in the evening, 

 but the boy said that first he would have to dream. 



In the morning the monkeys asked him what he 

 had dreamed. "There is plenty of fruit in the moun- 

 tain far away," he answered, pointing afar, and all the 

 monkeys went out to the mountain leaving their wives 

 and children behind. When they were all gone Ulung 

 Tiung killed the women and children with a stick, and 

 went home to his father. "I killed the women and chil- 

 dren," he declared, "but the men had not come back." 

 "We will watch for them with sumpitan," said his father, 

 and when the monkeys returned and found that all who 

 had remained at home were dead, they began to look for 

 Ulung Tiung, but he and his father killed half of them 

 with sumpitan and the rest ran away. 



Note. — Ulung Tiung is the name for a boy whose mother is dead, but 

 whose father is alive. For the sake of convenience I have maintained the 

 Malay name "borro" for the cocoanut-monkey. 



2. THE FATHERLESS BOY 

 (From the Penyahbongs; kampong Tamaloe) 



Ulung Ela made a fish-trap and when he returned 

 next morning he found it full of fish. He put them in 

 his rattan bag, which he slung on his back and started 

 for home. As he walked, he heard an antoh, Aaton Ko- 

 hang, singing, and he saw many men and women, to 



