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Tak Chemempes prepared rattan bindings |! large enough to go 
round his knees and elbows. Soon came the man who had 
taken the fish and asked what the bindings were for, and Tak 
Chemempes replied that they were medicine for pains in his 
elbows and knees. Tak Taihi asked for them, saying that 
he also had pains. Tak Chemempes gave them to him, show- 
ing him how to put them on with connecting pieces of wood 
between the elbows and knees. Then, when he was firmly 
trussed, Tak Chemempes beat him to death, and when the 
people came back from fishing they heaped together their 
fish for him 
Next Tak Chemdnnisés bored a hole in a tree buttress. 
making it sufficiently large for his = to pass through easily. 
This hole he stopped with mud, that it would not be 
noticed. When he had finished, hie eatiea his companions to 
try if they could kick a hole in a tree buttress, and they said 
bo they would give him all their fish if he was able to do 
is companions tried to kick a hole in a buttress, but 
cant not. Then Tak Chemempes kicked the buttress in the 
place which he had prepared, and his foot passed through 
it easily. So his companions brought him their fish. 
ter about another two or there days his companions 
stole the girl whom he had brought with him. Tak Chemem- 
pes went in search of her, but could not find her: so he 
returned. He slept for a night, and the next day he dis- 
covered the thieves, but not the girl. He said to them, “ I 
you want to become like Tam, go and get some bamboos.” 
So they went and got what he told them to fetch, and Tak 
Chemempes dried the bamboos for two nights over the fire. 
Then he made knives from the bamboos, and said, ‘‘If you 
want to become Mohamedans (?.¢. be circumcised ¥ go and sit 
above the waterfall. So they went and sat above the water- 
fall. Tak Chemempes went to their wives and said, “ If I am 
attacked by an evil spirit? when I circumcise your husbands, 
ere * medicine to blow over me ,””* —and he gave them some 
tios.* So he went to circumcise their husbands. First he 
called one man, cut off all his genitals, and kicked him down 
into the river below, then another and so on, till all thirty of 
them were dead. Then he went back, and the wives asked 
him when their husbands were coming home, and he replied, 
“ Perhaps to-day or to-morrow.” That night he pretended 
to have an epileptic fit, ® and all the women came together to 
blow the medicine over him. Then he beat them all to death. 
| Of the kind agg doy Malays call stmpaz, 
2 In Malay ‘‘ kén ; 
3 The Malay ita “Blowing medicine from the mouth, often siveh- 
ae on to the affected nart, is a method of treatment frequently resorted 
y _ practitioners. 
unyet térus in Malay, a kind of tumeric, Curcuma aromatica (?). 
a 5 In oes ** become pig mad,” epileptic fits are ascribed to possession 
¥ a spiri 
