1920. ] I. H. N. Evans: Camphor-Hunters. 57 
The Legend of The Camphor Princess. 
All these seven Penghulus once went to the jungle, and 
six of them worked at camphor-getting ; but the seventh and 
youngest, Penghulu Bongsu, did nothing but sleep in the 
hut day and night. The six brothers came back, bringing 
with them three or four katties of camphor each evening, 
but the seventh did nothing. 
When they had been in the jungle for about fourteen 
days, the six brothers returned to their village, leaving the 
seventh behind. 
After they had gone home, Penghulu Bongsu, who had 
set off by himself to fish, espied a princess bathing in the 
stream at a place where it plunged down from a mountain. 
He walked caretully so that she should not know of his 
presence and caught her byher hair, which was seven cubits 
(hasta) long, while she was bathing in the stream. ‘Then the 
princess said to him, ‘‘ Do you wish to follow me?” Penghulu 
Bongsu replied, ‘‘I wish to follow you; that is why I caught 
you by the hair” ‘‘If you wish to follow me,” said the 
princess, ‘‘ do not speak.’ 
Then the princess took him up into a camphor-tree—her 
house. 
Now after Penghulu Bongsu had been with her for seven 
days the princess asked him why he looked so sad, and 
Penghulu Bongsu replied that he was thinking of his wife 
and children—ior he was married. 
So the princess asked him to bring his carrying-basket. 
She combed her hair over it, and, as she combed, the cam- 
phor fell from her hair into it, until it was full. 
Then the princess said to Penghulu Bongsu, ‘‘ When the 
people of your village ask you where you have been, keep 
silence,”’ 
After this she pointed out the way to the village, 
and Penghulu Bongsu, leaving her in the jungle, returned 
home carrying the camphor with him ; but when his brothers 
asked him whence he had got it, he was silent. 
to a promise that he had made to the princess. He stayed 
with her for seven days, and at the end of that time persuaded 
her to go back to his village with him. 
When the princess arrived at the village she told Penghulu 
Bongsu to build a house for her in which she could keep 
herself shut up in safety. ‘‘ For,’’ said she, ‘‘if the Raja 
hears about me, he will kill you and try to take me for him- 
self, though I shall be able to fly away.”’ 
Now while the princess was living in the new house that 
Penghulu Bongsu had built for her, and shortly after she had 
given birth to a female child, the Raja called Penghulu Bongsu 
