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There is also а sacred tiger possessed by the fairy as her 
sole guardian of the mountain. always sits half-way down 
they believe that.there is also а kind of plant grown near the 
house of the fairy, and any one who gets a leaf from that plant 
and eats it, besides being always young and beautiful, will never 
die. Many of the ancient people of Malacca attempted to get 
some of the leaves, and many iost their lives in the attempts 
because of their absurdity, 
is story was first told by a Malay who accidentally 
reached the top of the mountain. One day while cutting wood 
with some of his companions he was accidentally separated from 
them and was left alone in the forests. What was his alarm 
story which the Malays as wellas the Straits Chinese believe 
about Mt. Ophir or Gunong Leydang." 
R. J. Wilkinson. 
Golden Flowers. 
; here was living in Singapore not many years ago a 
Chinaman in very poor circumstances, who possessed, however, 
а small garden, in which grew a plant of tbe Pandan Wangi 
(Pandanus laevis), a tree which is often cultivated for its scented 
leaves used for flavouring rice and for making a kind of pot ` 
pourri used at weddings. He supplied the tree liberally with 
manure, and one moonlight night he was surprised to see it 
bearing а г ower. Going to examine it next day, no flower 
was to be seen, but next night it was there again, and he climb- 
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ed up and got it, and put it on a table in his house. Оп the 
