264 RAJA DONAN. 



diatas). This time the crop (i'embolok) of RAJA Donan's bird 

 was torn open, and the paddy in it was strewed about the 

 cock-pit. Again RAJA PlAKAS was triumphant. RAJA DONAN 

 still confident repeated again his verse and added this one : — ■ 



Runiah besar di-tinggal-kan rumah kechil di-tunggu 

 Patah tiarig tongkat ber-telku. 



" If one leaves a big house one lives in a small one 

 " If the post be broken one uses a prop." 



In the next round the throat of the bird of Raja PlAKAS 

 was cut and it fell bleeding to the ground and died, while the 

 victor flew up on the rail of the cock-pit and crowed, so that 

 it could be heard in the next reach of the river (merantas tan- 

 jong). The ugly youth shouted and bared his arms and drew 

 his knife and leapt about flompat kinja) after the manner of 

 Malays when excited, and Raja PlAKAS, very much ashamed 

 of himself, having lost his money, his country, and his bride, 

 went back to his boat. 



RAJA DONAN had yet another humiliation in store for his 

 rival. He persuaded him to land again and to let the prepa- 

 rations for the marriage go on as if nothing had happened, 

 assuring him that Raja BANDAHARA Mangku Bumi would be 

 furious if it did not take place. Preparations accordingly 

 went forward, there were feasts and ceremonies, and at last, 

 at the appointed day and hour, the marriage ceremony was 

 performed and the bridegroom was escorted according to cus- 

 tom to the bride's chamber. But here he met with a reception 

 very different from that which he expected, for the Princess 

 Ganda Iran flew at him with a knife, declaring that she would 

 never accept as a husband a man who before the marriage had 

 staked her in a gambling bout. Raja PlAKAS escaped to the 

 balei and thence went back to his boat, where Raja DONAN 

 followed him. The efforts of the latter to persuade him to 

 return were quite fruitless. Raja PlAKAS declared that he 

 now saw that he had been deceived all along, and he went 

 back to his own country in a fury, vowing that he would return 

 and lay waste Gedong Batu, making it a field where the cas- 

 tor-oil plant would grow wild and the doves feed undisturbed 

 fpada 7i g ja rak pa da ng tek tiku r) . 



