RAJA DONAN. 265 



After this Raja Bandahara Mangku Bumi decided that 

 the best thing to be done for the protection of his kingdom 

 was to make RAJA DONAN his son-in-law, and the marriage 

 took place accordingly with great rejoicings. 



Now Raja Piakas had a sister the Princess Telepuk Chah- 

 YA who was possessed of various supernatural powers and whom 

 all the dragons and crocodiles of the sea and all the beasts 

 of the earth obeyed. To her accordingly he repaired asking 

 her to avenge the slights put upon him in the kingdom of 

 Gedong Batn. She summoned the kings of dragons and cro- 

 codiles, two of each, and asked them to lay that country waste. 

 They said that they would obey her commands, but that never- 

 theless they had a presentiment that they would never return. 

 All the dragons and crocodiles now started for the mouth of 

 the river which runs through Gedong Batu and there they ate 

 up every person and every fowl, duck, goat and buffalo that 

 they could find. The distressed peasants flocked to Raja 

 Donan'S palace for protection and by his intercession the 

 Dewatas caused the country to be lifted up in the air so that 

 all the dragons and crocodiles perished miserably on the dry 

 land, and only two escaped into the sea and got back to Beram 

 Birn to tell the Princess Telepuk Chahya of their discomfi- 

 ture. The Princess was not to be discouraged, and now she 

 called out her faithful subjects the beasts of the forest, lions and 

 tigers and rhinoceroses and all sorts of wild animals, and told 

 them to go and lay waste Gedong Batu. Like the dragons 

 and crocodiles, they undertook the mission, but they said at the 

 same time that they knew that they would never return. 



The march of the army of wild beasts through the forest 

 to Gedong Batu was a sight to see. So numerous were they 

 that the mountains and hills which they had to cross were 

 levelled before they had all passed by, and the trees were 

 rooted up so that what had been forest became open plains 

 (ber-temu gunong, gunong rata, dan ber-temu bukit, bukit 

 rata, ber-temu rimba, rimba terang menjadi padang) . When 

 they had crossed the frontier (peminggiran negrij they set to 

 work to devour everything they came across, cocoa-nuts, betel- 

 nuts and fruit as well as goats and buffaloes. No one dared 

 to put a foot outside his house. At last when they began to 



