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the palace and procured cloth and had clothes made for him. 

 Seeing a ring on his little finger, she transferred it to her own 

 which it exactly fitted. She was so enchanted with her new 

 plaything that she wouldn't go home, and the Kino; and Queen 

 and the whole Court had to come down and see what was going 

 on. 



Shah Numan, when his " grandchild ' } had been absent for 

 three days and nights, began to get uneasy about him, and he 

 went to Mount laggil-ber-inggil in search of him. Being un- 

 successful, he went to the top and waited for the sun to rise. 

 Salam l aleikum, " Peace be on you," said he to the sun. W<t 

 'aleikum es-salam, "And on you be peace/'' responded the 

 sun with the politeness of a Muhammadan. A conversation 

 then ensued. The sun pretended at first not to know where 

 the little monkey had gone, but being reminded that from his 

 position he could see all that went on in the world, he explain- 

 ed everything and said that the absentee would be found in 

 the country of Tahwil, where the King's daughter was at that 

 moment playing with him. Shaii Ntjman asked the sun to 

 get him back, and the sun put out a long hot hand and picked 

 him out of the Princess' lap. There was intense heat on the 

 earth, and then a moment of darkness, during which it was 

 found that the monkey had disappeared. The Princess went 

 weeping home. 



Shah Ntjman took the delinquent, still unconscious, back 

 to his palace and, brought him back to life. He then ordered 

 him to quit the kingdom where he had given so much trouble. 

 The monkey refused to go, pleading that he was afraid to live 

 alone in the forest. Upon this Shah Numan explained that 

 he need be under no fear, for he would instantly be acknow- 

 ledged as their king by countless multitudes of subjects, who 

 were divided into four tribes, each governed by four Chiefs. 



Xext day, acting on the King's directions, Kra Kechil 

 Imam Tergaxgga betook himself to the forest, and made his way 

 to the plain of Anta-ber-anta to the north of Mount Inggii- 

 ber-inggil. Taking his stand under an enormous beringin tree 

 in the centre of the plain, and placing his arms akimbo, he suc- 

 cessively faced the four points of the compass, and called upon 



