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On the next day he started on a journey, and, when a 
strong wind arose, he heard a sound of loud whistling. He 
found that the noise was made by two trees, the stems of 
which crossed one another, and were pushed together by the 
wind. Tak Chemempes climbed up into the trees and put 
his hand between them in order to take whatever it was that 
made the whistling, but his hand was caught between the 
trunks and there he was held until he died. 
MAMPES. 
Mampes and his wife went from Selama to Perak, and 
lived there a month. On his return, Mampes found that all 
his companions had been eaten by tigers : now there were two 
of these animals 
He told his wife to climb a jérai-tree. Then he went to 
the huts where the people had died, and there he found two 
tigers. The tigers wanted to fight with him, but he stopped 
them, saying, “‘ Wait a little, and then we will fight. I want 
to take a thorn out of my foot.’”’ He took out the thorn, and 
then, standing up, called the male tiger to fight. Thev 
fought, and Mampes killed the tiger with an arrow. Then he 
called the female and she, also, was killed in the same way. 
So Mampes said, ‘‘ Ah, when 1 was away you came and killed 
my mother and my relations, but now you have had to fight 
with me!” He returned to his wife and called to her to come 
down. Then he told her how their friends had been killed, 
and she wept when she heard of it 
After this Mampes went to his father’s camp, which was 
in another place, and told him how his mother and his com- 
panions had been eaten by tigers. He lived there for about 
three months. One day he told two of his companions to 
make a swing, and, when it was made, he sat in it and swung. 
Now there were two women/whose husband—they were 
tended to be dumb. Now this ‘‘ dumb’’ man, Tak Nin, '! 
was really also Mampes, se he had made a double of himself, 
but of different appearanc 
These three, Tak Nin ape his two wives, Yak Lunggyait 
and Penantun, both of whom were halak, went to the jungle, 
Tak Nin taking with him a bow. 
They came across a bear up a tree in the jungle and Yak 
Lunggyait took the bow, placed one end on the ground, strung 
it, and gave it to Tak Nin, motioning himtoshoot. The bear 
was struck and crouched the ground, and Yak Lunggyait 
said, ‘‘ Nin deurk kawap ’ *Run!’’ said Nin to his two 
wives. Then the bear ae 
1 Tak Nin's footprints, I am told, can still be seen at Ayer Tuna 
ina Kedah. 
** Nin, run from the bear!’ 
