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Kanavvy ; ' but they spoke to him gently, and said, ' No, we 

 cannot give them, the Lord Allah has forbidden it/ Then 

 the Eajali grew angry, and said, ' I, too, am a great king,' 

 and he climbed up to the nests of the Kanawys under the 

 rafters of the house, and looked into the nests where the eggs 

 shone like large emeralds, and he put his hand out to take 

 them, and behold — he was in the forest, alone, under the teak- 

 tree, and the houses and the beautiful maidens with the 

 champaka flowers in their hair had vanished, and the beautiful 

 white-birds were flying screaming away to the river ; and 

 the Orang Ka-benar-an considered, and said, ' The Lord Allah 

 has been very kind to us, in giving us four days of the society of 

 the mortals whom we may find in our village, but this is too 

 long, and if by chance one succeed in taking the eggs of the 

 Kanawy we shall fall under his displeasure ; we will, therefore, 

 in future keep our visitors for three days only ;' and since that 

 time many mortals have been admitted among the Orang Ka- 

 benar-an, but at the end of the third day they have always been 

 awakened where the first lay down, by the last sounds of 

 the music and voices of the invisible people dying slowly away 

 in the rustling of the wind among the tops of the jungle." 



