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brother slept there for the night, and saw that the people of 
the hut were of a different race from human beings. 
On the next day he tried to persuade his elder brother 
to come home, but he refused. So the elder brother stopped 
there, while the younger returned. 
A Menik Kaien Legedn, 
ToLtp py M&Mp#HLAM, HEADMAN OF THE KINTAK BONG. 
There was once a man, a /alak, who had a son who was 
also a falak. ‘The son had a wife. One day the son went 
out to shoot with his blow pipe. His wife took a bakong- 
fruit and roasted it in the fire, intending to give it to her 
child, who was crying for food. The bakong! fruit exploded: 
—now to burn a bakong-fruit in the fire is tabu, and, if any- 
one does so, a tiger will come and eat the offender when the 
fruit explodes. On the fruit exploding, the father-in-law be- 
came startled, began to oe and turned into a tiger and* 
ate up his daughter-in-law 
jhen the son came “hot me, he saw what is father had 
done, and the two fought together. The son was beaten, 
because the father became very tall during the fight, and 
though he, too, became very tall, he could not attain such a 
height as his father. Then the father said to the son that 
he (the son) could not fight with him (the father) any more, 
and that the hut should become a cave in a hill. So 
the hut became a cave, and is still to be seen near Batu 
Kurau. ® 
Now AES: ‘bes father of Tapern came to the cave 
and the two men,* now called Heneng Ai,® emerged from the 
cave up to their ‘shoulders. Then T ang-ong asked what had 
happened and the father told him how he and his son had 
fought, and asked him to tell the Menik Kaien that they 
were to keep the sixteenth day of the month—the day on 
which they had fought—as tabu, whenever they went near 
the hill. 
(The Menik Kaien according to Mémpélam, claim Batu 
Kurau as being in their territory. Only the Menik Kaien 
dialect may be talked by Negritos when going near the hill.) 
! Probably Susiwm erence gota 
2 Magicians among the Negritos and se are frequently credited 
— a power of turning themselves into 
am inclined to think that this ane may be the Sgro in 
Gun sig Kurau which the Malays call Keramat Rimau, 7.e. the r’s holy 
place. I carried out excavations at this site in 1917; vide te ox, 
ot this Journal, Tokeh (192 ne tories says that Mémpelam is wrong and 
— ~ Lepne is in the Ulu Sel 
er and son. 
; inne Aiis also the Negrito name of the cave. It means ‘‘ the hole 
of the — The particular species of leaf-monkey is Presbytes 
neglecta keatit 
