212 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [Vor. TX , 
Yak Tanggoi came to life in the sky, and when a halak 
performs in a panoh (‘‘medicine-hut”’ ) Piagok, Yak Tanggoi, 
Taseg and Yak Hnileh come to him. They have become 
Chinoi. 
TAK CHEMEMPES, 
Tak Chemempes one day turned himself into a rhino- 
ceros. A companion of his, who had gone to cut attaps in 
the jungle, saw him eating the leaves of a tree and went 
home, got his bow, returned, and shot at him, but Tak 
Chemempes caught the arrow under his ‘‘armpit” (front 
leg). Then he pretended to be dead, as if he had been 
killed by the arrow. 
he man who had shot at him went back to call his 
friends to come and cut up the rhinoceros that he had shot. 
They all went to the place and made themselves shelters 
near the ‘‘dead” rhinoceros. Five children started playing 
near the rhinoceros while their mothers were building the 
shelters, and the rhinoceros said to them, ‘‘ Have you all 
come here ?’’ and the children answered, ‘‘ All of us.’? The 
children went to their fathers and said, ‘‘ The rhinoceros 
asked us if we had all moved here.” ‘The fathers said, 
“© Don’t speak minchah.’’! 
Then all the people came together to cut up the rhino- 
ceros, and the rhinoceros got up, became a man, and killed 
them all, except one man who was only lamed. Then Tak 
Chemempes said, ‘‘ Is there any one left ?’’ and the wounded 
Now the people to whom he had sold the working-knives 
were shifting their camp. They came to the place where 
Tak Chemempes had become a palm-cabbage, and first one, 
and then another, climbed the tree to cut out the cabbage, 
but all were unsuccessful, until a man cut it through with a 
small knife,* and pushed it down, when it rolled into the 
river and became a soft-shelled turtle. 
All the people tried to catch the turtle, but it cut their 
hands. At last the man who had cut down the palm cab- 
bage went down into the river, caught the turtle, and 
brought it ashore, when it immediately dug itself into the 
ground and became an elephant’s-head tuber. So they dug 
T.e. words which will cause a stomach trouble when the flesh is eaten 
Minchah is more or less equivalent to the Malay word mising, ‘‘ bad diarr 
hoea. ” 
2 The Negrito name for the Langkap-palm. 
3 Not one that he had bought from Tak Chemempes. 
