96 MANANGISM IN BORNEO. 
To where kingfishers ever screech, 
To the end of the muntjac’s run, 
To the place of the setting sun, 
To the birds fanned by fre, 
To Jawa the settled country, 
To the pebbly shallows of inland waters, 
To the hill of burning flre, 
To the end of Zalang hill of Hades. (') 
So now we have nothing to hurt us, nothing wrong ; 
We are in health, we are in comfort ; 
We are long-lived and strong-lived, 
Hard as stone, hard of head; 
Long as the waters, long of lite. 
Like the waters of Ini Inda,(?) 
Like the stones of the Dewata,(?) 
Like a pool five (fathoms) deep ; 
Like a stretch of river beyond eyeshot, 
Like the land turtle’s burrowed bed, 
Like the waterfall of Telanjing Dara,(3) 
Like the land of Pulang Gana(*) 
Like the cave bed of Raja Sua(°) 
Like hills fixed by the gods. 
Like the moon at its full, 
Like the cluster of threerstars - 
As high as heaven, as high as the firmament. 
There is nothing wrong, nothing to hurt ; 
When sleeping have dreams of strings of fish ; 
Lying down, dream of bathing in the shallow pebbly 
streams ; 
(1) There are added here the names of many supposed places in Hades 
to which the evil spirits of disease are called upon to retreat with all speed ; 
but they are untranslateable. 
(2) Names or titles used of deities in general. 
(3) Telanjing Dara is said to be a female mythical spirit who lives at a 
waterfall, and who is ever on to watch to take people away to the land of death. 
(4) Pulang Gana is the spirit who presides over the land and cultivation, 
(5) Raja Sua is the spirit who presides over rivers. 
