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pong, where she asked for help and the people permitted 

 her to remain there. 



Shortly afterward the babi arrived. All the people 

 heard the noise it made as it came through the utan, 

 breaking the jungle down. They said to Inyah: "You 

 would better run away from here. We are afraid he 

 may eat us." Inyah went away, trying to reach another 

 kampong. She got there and asked for help against the 

 man-eating babi. Hardly had she received permission 

 to remain before a great noise was heard from the babi 

 coming along. The people, frightened, asked her to 

 pass on, and she ran to another kampong. There was 

 a woman kapala in that kampong who lived in a house 

 that hung in the air. Inyah climbed the ladder, which 

 was drawn up after her. The babi came and saw Inyah 

 above, but could not reach her, and waited there many 

 days. 



Dirang, who was on his way back from the head- 

 hunting expedition, came down the river, and he said 

 to one of his companions: "It is well to stop here and 

 make food." This chanced to be close to the place where 

 Inyah was. They went ashore to make camp. Some 

 of them went out to search for wood and met the babi, 

 who attacked them, and they fled to their prahus. When 

 Dirang, who was an antoh, saw his men on the run, he 

 became very angry, went after the babi, and cut off its 

 head. His men cut up the body and cooked the meat in 

 bamboo, near the river, sitting on a long, flat rock. They 

 ate much, and Dirang said that he now wanted to paddle 

 down to the kampong, so they all started. Inyah had seen 



