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days they saw a sprout coming up, and in twenty years 

 this had grown into a big tree which bore all sorts of fruit 

 and other good things. From the tree fell durian, nangka, 

 and many other kinds of delicious fruit, as well as cloth- 

 ing, spears, sumpitans, gongs, and wang (money). 



Rumour of this spread to the kampong, and two men 

 arrived, Tuliparon, who was chief, and his brother Semor- 

 ing. They had heard of the two young women, and they 

 made a hut for themselves near by, but did not speak 

 to the girls. They went to sleep and slept day after 

 day, a whole year, and grass grew over them. Inu, the 

 younger, who was the brighter of the two, said to Aneit- 

 jing: "Go and wake these men. They have been sleep- 

 ing a long time. If they have wives and children in the 

 kampong this will make much trouble for all of them." 

 Aneitjing then asked Tipang Tingai for heavy rain. It 

 came in the evening and flooded the land, waking the 

 two men who found themselves lying in the water. They 

 placed their belongings under the house of the women 

 and went to the river to bathe. They then returned 

 and changed their chavats under the house. The women 

 wanted to call to them, but they were bashful, so they 

 threw a little water down on them. The men looked up 

 and saw that there were women above and they ascended 

 the ladder with their effects. 



The girls gave them food, and Tuliparon said to Inu : 

 " I am not going to make a long tale of it. If you agree 

 I will make you my wife, and if you do not agree, I will 

 still make you my wife." Inu answered: "Perhaps you 

 have a wife and children in the kampong. If you have, 



