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They went back and stopped for two nights at their hut. 
After this they started out again, and met an elephant, and 
Tak Nin went by himself and shot at the elephant with his 
bow, wounding him. The elephant ran away, and, when he 
had run for about two miles,! fell down dead. So Tak Nin 
went home with his two wives and told his companions about 
the dead elephant. Next day about twenty of them started 
off for the place where the elephant was lying. When they 
arrived, Tak Nin cut open the elephant’s head and took the 
tusks. Then they went home. 
Now there was a younger brother-in-law *~ of Tak Nin’s. 
This man was a halak, his name was Pas, * and he was the 
ancestor of the Muntjac, for all animals were once men. Tak 
Nin told him to speak to his (Tak Nin’s) mother-in-law, * and 
ask her what he should do with the ivory. So Pas ran off to 
Tak Nin’s mother-in-law’s and arrived at night, when, on com- 
ing to the entrance of the camp, he stepped on two people 
who were sleeping there. These two moved toa sleeping 
bench, which broke under their weight and they were wounded 
in their backs by the supports of the bench. 
Then Pas went straight to his mother’s hut, and said, 
‘* My elder brother has killed an elephant,’’ telling her to go 
the next day. The mother-in-law told the father-in-law, and 
on the following day, he and Pas went to Tak Nin’s hut. 
The father-in-law took the tusks home with him and 
kept them for ten days, until a thief, named Keh, came at 
night and stole them. On the next morning the father-in-law, 
Tak Kemis, went after the thief and met him on the path. 
Then Keh put down the tusks and ran away up some rocks, 
complaining. Tak Kemis shot him with his bow, and he 
died. This Keh ° was the ancestor of the goat-antelopes. 
Tak Kemis went home with the ivory, but one night 
another thief climbed up upon the shelf,* while five others 
watched near Tak Kemis’s head. The five took the ivory 
and ran away, while the sixth jumped down from the shelf, 
spilling the salt into the fire in doing so. Now the five got 
away safely, but the sixth, Chigchag, broke his thigh between 
two logs. Tak Kemis found him on the next day and 
killed him. 
Malay ‘* dua batu,” two stones, i.e. two miles. The Negritos have 
learnt pa speak of miles from the Malays. 
2 Adik ipay in Malay, i.e. a brother-in-law who was yourger than Tak 
= The name means ‘‘ kijang” (Muntaicus muntjac). 
+ Tak Nin would be prohibited by Negrito custom from speaking to 
her himsel 
5 His ‘sdiinain Pye goat-antelopes (serows). The name Keh, 
lieve, means serow that Keh tried to escape to the rocks. nies nee 
commonly lives on aioe limestone cliffs, such as are to be found in 
many parts of the Peninsula 
6 Malay para. Probably va ivory was kept on a shelf above the hearth. 
The Negritcs do not, however, build sufficient complicated dwellings to 
have a pava. License must “ae oan to the story-teller. 
