DO A JOURNEY ON FOOT TO THE PATANI FRONTIER. 
ger. In this difficulty he bethought himself of a plan. He per- 
suaded the fish to give him one little fish of the smallest kind 
(anak sampilei ) and he flew off with him to a neighbouring pond, 
where there were no fish, and put him into the water. The little 
fish enjoyed himself amazingly, having no big fish to dispute it with 
him. After a time the crane carried him back to the original pool, 
and before long all the fish in it had heard glowing descriptions of 
the delights of the new pond and all wanted to go there. The 
crane very kindly promised to take them there one by one and the 
confiding fish believed in him. Every day he came for a fish, and, 
when he had carried him a little way, of course, he ate him up. At 
last all the fish were finished and nothing eatable was left except 
an old crab at the bottom of the pond. The crane carried him off 
also with his usual evil intention. But the crab, suspecting that 
all was not right, laid hold of the crane’s neck with one of his claws 
and put an end to him.” From this let all men learn that fraud 
and cunning, though they may be temporarily successful, bring 
their own punishment or discomfiture in the end! * 
Tuan Prang appeared at last attended by the Penghulus and a 
number of followers. He wore a tight fitting blue jacket and a 
short sarong which left his legs bare from the knee downwards. 
His hair which was cut in the Siamese fashion stood straight up 
on his head in a tuft like a shaving-brush. He was not so intelli- 
gent as Wan Monpsin, but much more open and straight-forward. 
He did not attempt to deny that Maharaja Lena had been in the 
neighbourhood, but lamented that he had not had private intima- 
tion of what I wanted before I appeared on the scene in person. 
I explained that when I started I believed the man to be still in 
Perak territory and that if I had known all along that he was in 
Patani my journey would probably not have been undertaken. 
* Dr. Backer has noticed theparallel between this fable, which the Sia- 
mese possess in the collection called Nonthuk Pakkaranam (the Prudent 
Ox) and La Fontaine’s fable of the Heron. Is it not probably to be 
found inthe Malay Kalla wa Damnah (also called Hakayat Si teruboh 
after the bull who became the lion’s friend) and, therefore, to go further 
back, in the Hvtopadesa and Panchatantra? See Dr. Backer’s transla- 
tion of the Malay poem Bidasar?, Introduction, p. 42. I have not gota 
eopy of the Anwar-1-Suhaili to which to refer. 
