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went down to see him. "Where are you going ?" asked 

 Dirang. "I want to go with you," answered the boy. 

 Dirang liked him, and let him into the prahu. 



They travelled far and wide, and finally came to the 

 kampong which they wanted to attack. Dirang went 

 in from one end of the house and Obongbadjang from 

 the other, and they cut the heads from all the people, 

 men, women, and children, and met in the middle of the 

 house. Dirang was wondering who this young man was 

 who was strong like himself and not afraid. " My name is 

 Obongbadjang," he said, "the son of Dirang and Inyah." 

 He then ran away, although Dirang tried to keep him 

 back, and he ran until he arrived where his mother was. 



On seeing his son run away Dirang felt "sick in his 

 throat," then collected all the heads, comprising the 

 population of the whole kampong, put them in the 

 prahus, and returned to look for his son and wife. He 

 stopped at the same place where he had killed the big 

 babi and made a hut. He then went to look for Obong- 

 badjang and Inyah. When he was walking under the 

 house, which was high up in the air, Inyah threw a little 

 water down on him. He turned his head up and saw 

 there was a house, but there was no ladder and he could 

 not get up. They put out the ladder and he went up 

 and met Inyah again, who, until then, he did not know 

 was alive. He also met his son, and after remaining a 

 little while he took them away to rebuild their kampong. 



Note. — "Sick in his throat," Saputan mode of speech for deep emo- 

 tional depression, is similar to our "feeling a choking in the throat." The 

 Malays say: "Sick in his liver." 



For the sake of convenience the Malay name babi for a pig, perfectly 

 known to the Dayaks, has been maintained in this tale. 



