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blew it out toward the dancing woman. The arrow hit 

 the woman in the small of the back, and she fell mor- 

 tally wounded. Then he flew down to the house, finished 

 killing her with his spear, and cut her head off with his 

 parang. He then went up to her room and took the mu- 

 sical instrument, her beautiful clothing, and beads, and 

 placed all, together with the head, in his prahu. He 

 also took many fine rattan mats, burned the house, and 

 flew away in the sky. After a month he arrived in his 

 kampong and returned to his wife. "Here is the musical 

 instrument you wanted," he said. "Good!" she an- 

 swered, "what else did you hunt for?" 



He placed it on the floor and asked it to play by 

 striking it one time. Sugar, boiled rice, durian, cocoa- 

 nuts began to fall down, also tobacco, salt, clothing — all 

 the good things that they could wish for. The Raja 

 Besar was greatly pleased and was all smiles, and the 

 people of her kampong no longer found it necessary to 

 work. Everything that they needed came when they 

 wished for it, and all enjoyed this state of things. 



When a month had passed she learned of a woman's 

 hair ornament which was to be found in the river far 

 away. It was of pure gold, and when one hung it up 

 and struck it all sorts of food would drop from it. "Go 

 and get that," she told her husband. "It is in a cave 

 underneath the waters of the river." 



Batangnorang made himself ready. He put on tiger 

 skin, placed on his head a rattan cap with many tail 

 feathers of the hornbill fastened to it, took his parang, 

 his shield adorned with human hair, and his sumpitan. 



