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1922.) I. H. N. Evans: Negrito Beliefs and Customs. 217 
WILD Pics. 
The wild pigs were once Malays who =a to change 
themselves into pigs and go off into the jun 
There were once two Kintak Bong men, Dike The 
eldest was stupid, but the younger was a halak. They went 
to the jungle and came across some pigs, and the elder bro- 
ther shot at one of them with an arrow ' and hitit. Then the 
‘““pigs ’’ ran away to their houses and became men again, and 
the man who had been hit complained of the pain to his wife. 
Now the younger brother went to the village and saw 
the sickman. The elder brother followed him and called out 
im the village, ‘‘ This is where my arrow is,” but his younger 
brother told him not to say anything. "Then the “ pigs” 
came and fought with them. ‘he elder brother went home, 
but the younger remained behind and treated the sick man 
till he was well 
‘hen the younger brother went home and said to this 
elder brother, ‘‘Do not go to the village to-morrow, if you 
do, the ‘‘ pigs”’ will fight, and you will die.’” The elder bro- 
ther paid no attention to what the younger said, and went to 
the village and asked for rice? They gave him rice, and 
attacked him while he was eating it, and killed him 
His younger brothe;x did not know about this. The next 
morning he went to the village and found his elder brother’s 
body lying there. He went and moved the body, and found 
that his brother was dead. Then he took the tail of a grass- 
lizard and thrust it into his elder brother’s nostrils. Where- 
upon his brother sneezed, and came to life again. ‘hen they 
went home. 
hen they got home, they stepped there for two days, 
and then the elder brother went fishing and caught some fish. 
He went back to his hut, and, when he arrived, his wife 
cooked rice for him. After he had eaten, and it had become 
went back, and remained at his hut for fifteen days. On the 
sixteenth day he again went in search of his elder brother, 
and found him at a water spirits’*camp. Then the younger 
! It is often said, with truth, that the bow is the original Negrito 
Negrito-Sakai, who can easily obtain the long noded bamboe (B. Wray?) 
which is the best for making the inner arr Pgs N oe have, however, 
evolved their own type of dart-qu ~ 
In these folk-stories it is, I think, —o-y plaseadiar net that Bee bow isthe 
—— stig i — ere are constant references to it as against only 
to the blow-pi 
Bong are at the present day, hangers-on at Malay 
lages. They continually sig for rice, — whee avoid — work nog pay- 
ment for it when receiv moit teheu 
