210 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [Vor.. IX, 
Eh, minyun balan chibeh 
Father, I shake up and down bridge sunrise 
juth* kaleh. 
bird lifting wings. 
‘I shake up and down on the bridge of sunrise ; 3 mimicking 
the song of a bird, lifting up its wings.’’ It is a female 
Chinoi, a Chinoi Tang-al, “who is speaking. She lives near 
the Tang-al of the Batu Herem. 
Various Beliefs and Customs. 
If a hut is to be built in the jungle, a fire is first lighted 
on the spot chosen. If the smoke from this drifts about 
without rising, another site must be selected, as, if this is 
not done, a tiger will raid the occupants of the hut, or they 
will fall ill with fever. 
If the hornbill, which the Negritos call Kawan malik*® 
is heard at night, it is said that a tiger is coming. The same 
belief also attaches to the Kuwangkwcit* when its note is 
heard after dark. 
If a squirrel in a tree falls from it near rar rea rae 
bench of a shelter, it is a sign that some one will 
Malays (Hemik), blood, jungle leeches and ena private 
parts of a man or woman may not be mentioned when fish 
are being caught by means of ¢uba*-poison. These words 
are enlak, tabu. Women who are expectant may not accom- 
pany the fishing party. If these tabus are broken, the poison 
will have no effect upon the fish. 
Folk-Stories. 
Yak KAMPEH AND PIAGOK. 
Yak* Kampeh lived with her son, Piagok, in the Selama 
District. 
Yak Kampeh dreamt one night that she had got a son 
named Kebeurk Yihuk.’? The next morning she went out to 
look for food, and came across a fruit hanging from a tree. 
She told her son, Piagok, to climb and take the fruit. So 
Piagok climbed the tree and threw the fruit down into his 
mother’s cloth, which she held to receive it. A sound of 
| The ‘ee equivalent is suwara. 
2 Said to be a Chinoi word for ‘‘ bir 
: This is the Burong mati : — = i Malays (Annorhinus galeritus). 
+A tg nasiiiend (Tokeh, 1921). 
ts elliptica, a meyers Of which the sap is poured into pools in the 
tiver in ‘stupify ¢ e fish. 
randmother. 
means ‘‘ tree fruit.”’ 
