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to his palace; but, before he started, the princess said to 
him, ‘‘ Whatever the Raja orders you to do, do; unless he 
tells you to sing the magical camphor chants (bérpiu) which 
I have taught you.’’ 
Penghulu Bongsu presented himself before the Raja, and 
the Raja ordered him to show him how he searched for cam- 
phor, and to recite the magical chants that he sang. 
Penghulu Bongsu at first refused, but on the Raja threat- 
ening to kiil him, he began to sing the camphor-chants. He 
had not sung more than three verses when his wife, leaving 
the child in its swinging cradle, flew! out of the house, in 
which she had shut herself up, through a small hole, and 
perched on a coconut-tree to wait for him. - 
On Penghulu Bongsu’s return, not finding his wife in the 
house, but hearing the noise, ‘‘ Kok-kok-kok’’ which she 
made in the tree, he took his child on his back, and followed 
the sound made by the princess as she flew off into the jungle ; 
after which he was never seen agaiti. 
[While he was cutting his way through the undergrowth 
in the jungle, he accidentally wounded his child above the 
eyebrow with his chopping knife. And that is the reason 
why, if anyone dreams of a child wounded in this way, he 
will not get much camphor. ] 
1 She became a Cicada. 
