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people were away on a fishing expedition. Only his sister-in- 

 law, the wife of his brother Belang Pinggang, was at home. 



She was very much surprised to see him, and said they 

 had given him up for dead long ago. She told him that the 

 others were away fishing, and that his brother Bui- Nasi, and a 

 little boy, besides herself, were the only ones left at home. He 

 would find his brother and the little boy working at the forge 

 making some implements for their work. 



Pulang-Gana said he- would go to his brother and he left 

 the house and walked in the direction where he guessed the 

 forge was from the sound of hammering he heard. 



" Oh ! Is that you Pulang-Gana ? " said Bul-Nasi as soon 

 as he saw him. "Where have you been all these years ? We 

 thought that you had met with some accident and had died 

 long ago." 



Pulang-Gana said little about himself to his brother. He 

 told him how he had lost his way in the jungle years ago, and 

 when he arrived at last at a house, the people there persuaded 

 him to stay with them, and he said that he was now married 

 and had a daughter. 



" Have you come with your wife to stay with us ? " asked 

 Bui- Nasi. 



" No," was the answer, " I have only come on a short 

 visit by myself to ask for my share of the property left us by 

 our father." 



"You have nothing whatever to expect. You left us 

 years ago of your own will and have been away all this time, 

 and now you have the impudence to come and ask for your 

 share of the property. I advise you to say nothing of this to 

 the others. They will be very vexed with you if you do." 



" I do not ask for much," said Pulang-Gana. "I will be 

 satisfied with little. But my daughter asked me what I had to 

 give her, so I came here to ask for something, and I should be 

 sorry to return empty-handed." 



" You shall not return empty-handed," said Bui- Nasi in 

 scorn. " Here is something for you to take back with you. If 

 is all that you will get from us, I can tell you." With these 



K. A. Soc, No. 45, 1905. 



