MANANGISM IN BORNEO. 95 
Ye fowls are possessed with much foolishness and mis- 
chiet: 
Ye have many sins, many uncleannesses, 
Many evils and much viciousness, 
Ye are in debt for sugar-cane as long as a pole; 
In debt for plantains a long bunch; 
In debt for potatoes got by planting ; 
In debt for melons with flattened ends ; 
In debt for pumpkins one man’s load ; 
In debt for kladi growing to perfection ; 
In debt for maize a handful or two ; 
In debt for shoots of the moon cucumber ; 
In debt for paddy a deep big bin ; 
In debt for rice in the earthenware jar; 
Hence ye fowls are for waving and for offering. 
The wdah tree falls upon the kumpang sapling. 
Ye fowls have many crimes and many debts ; 
Ye bear the spirits of sickness, spirits of illness ; 
The spirits of fever and ague, spirits of cold and 
headache; 
The spirits of cold, the spirits of the forest ; 
Ye bear them, ye are filled with them ; 
Ye pile them up, ye put them in a basket ; 
Ye carry them, ye take them clear away ; 
Ye conduct them oft, ye gather them ; 
Ye drag them along, ye lift them up; 
Ye embrace them, ye carry them in your bosom ; 
Ye fowls have beaks as sharp as augers ; 
Your feathers are like fringes of red thread ; 
| Your ear feathers like sharpened stakes of bambu : 
: Your wings flap like folds of red of cloth ; 
Your tails are bent downwards like dragging ropes ; 
Your crops weigh heavily like many iron hawkbills ; 
Your nails are like sharp iron knives. 
Ye fowls scare away sickness, and make it run 
To the opening dawn of the morning, 
To the end of the further heavens, 
