HISTORY OF SANTUBONG, SARAWAK, 13 
have been devoted to the work. The rock itself has natural 
depressions and eminences so that the carving very likely 
followed some previous contours on the rock. There is no 
tradition whatever concerning this stone which is well known 
to the present inhabitants of Santubong: it is however certain 
that it was not the work of the Malays or Dayaks. We believe 
that it is of Indian workmanship and as a traveller's tale we 
have it that such figures are also to be found not far from 
Benares in India. 
Another stone to which no use nor origin can be assigned 
with certainty is a large block of standstone in which « shallow 
rectangular cavity has been cut: it is too large to be lifted by 
one man. This stone lies near the house of the Cutch 
Company. 
Of another crudely carved stone found at an elevation 
of 300 feet on the mountain a figure is given. It is about 
4 feet high and 1 foot broad: its history is quite unknown. 
Lastly there is near the Government bungalow a cylindri- 
eal block of sandstone about 6 ft. long which with its well 
smoothed surface and carefully rounded ends suggests human 
workmanship. 
If we turn in other directions for the solution of the ques- 
tions raised by the discovery of the above mentioned relics we 
meet with no explanation whatever. Of writings or traditions 
there is nothing save one which relates to the history of the 
Malay royal family and which we now summarise. It tells of 
the wanderings of a Malayan Aeneas, by name Datu Merapati, 
who for a time made Santubong his head quarters. The same 
story also makes mention of an attack on the village by Bur- 
mese invaders, a tale of considerable local interest as we shall 
see later on. 
THE STORY OF DATU MERAPATI. 
Many years ago there came down from Heaven an illus- 
trious person called Rajah Paribata Sri. Deciding to stay on 
earth he took to himself a wife and became the father of three 
children—by name Radin Depati our hero, Radin Urei Sri and 
R. A. Soc., No. 51, 1908. 
