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thunder. He has long hair all over his body like a Siamang- 
monkey (Symphalangus syndactylus), but this is white, and 
shines as if it had been oiled. The hair of his head is long like 
a Malay woman’s, but white. Kari and his younger brother - 
Tapern, who also has white hair covering his body, went 
up to the sky. They were magicians (Halak), and before 
they ascended there was no thunder. They came on foot up 
the Perak River from its mouth on a fishing expedition. They 
stopped at the place where Gunong (Mt.) Kendérong now 
rod in the ground near the elder’s, but, before soit so, broke 
off the top part, and wound the line round its s mp. Then 
they both returned to a shelter that they had built some little 
way down-stream to eat tubers. When they had eaten, they 
looked towards the place where they had left their rods and 
saw that two mountains (Gunong Kendérong and Gunong . 
Kerunai) had arisen there; whereupon the younger brother 
said, ‘‘ Our fishing-rods have become mountains!””: ; but his 
elder brother told him not to speak about it. The next night 
they made a circular medicine-hut and held a magical perform- 
ance : then they disappeared into the sky. It was the elder 
brother’s rod which became Gunong Kendérong (the taller of 
the two mountains), and the younger brother’s which became 
Gunong Kerunai. Kari and Tapern met their wives, Jamoi 
and Jalang in the sky. Yak Manoid and Yak Takel! live 
under the earth, and are the mothers of Jamoi and Jalang. 
The Creation of the World. 
According to Tokeh the earth was brought up from below 
by Tahum (the dung-beetle) in the form of a kind of powder.’ 
This Kawap, the Bear, stamped down with his paws, for, if 
he had not done so, the earth would have gone on rising till it 
almost reached the sky. 
The Sun, the Eclipse of the Moon, the Rainbow. 
Tdkeh told me that the sun appeared in heaven in the 
become the Crow and the latter the Hawk. ‘They lived ina 
house, and vera! had ason who was called Tanong (Dragonfly). 
e anong was flitting backwards and forwards 
under the ‘nie: playing like a child, and as he did so, the 
! Yak Takel is the mother of Tapern according to the Menik Kaien; 
vide supra, 
2 Just, I suppose, as dung-beetles bring up powdery earth at the 
ponent day when they draw pieces of dung under the surface of the soil. 
