THE MAGIC BABI BONE 399 



Dirang, and she said to the woman kapala: "Look! 

 There is my husband. No other man would have been 

 brave enough to kill the babi. ,, The woman kapala said : 

 "I should like to have such a husband if I wanted one, 

 but I am afraid of a husband/' Inyah said: "I want 

 to go down." And she walked over to the place where 

 the men had been sitting on the rock, went upon it, and 

 accidentally stepped on a bone left from the meal, which 

 hit her on the inside of the right ankle. The bone was 

 from the right hind leg of the babi, and was sharp, so 

 it drew a little blood from the ankle. 



She felt pain and went back to the house. Some time 

 later the leg began to swell, and as time passed it grew 

 bigger and bigger. The woman kapala said: "There 

 must be a child inside." "If that is the case," said In- 

 yah, "then better to throw it away." "No, don't do 

 that. Wait until the child is born and I will take care 

 of it," said the kapala. When her time had come the 

 child arrived through the wound made by the babi bone, 

 and the kapala washed the child and took care of it. 

 When two months old the child was given the name 

 Obongbadjang. When he was fifteen years old he was 

 as strong as Dirang. 



Dirang had brought many heads to the kampong, 

 but finding all the people dead and houses fallen down, 

 he became angry and killed the slaves he had brought 

 back. He then went out on another hunt for heads. 

 When the prahus passed the kampong where Inyah was, 

 all the people in the house saw them, and Obongbad- 

 jang, her young son, who had heard much of Dirang, 



