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There is also a sacred tiger possessed by the fairy as her 
sole guardian of the mountain. It always sits half-way down 
the mountain. As most of the uneducated are superstitious, 
they believe that there is also a kind of plant grown near the 
house of the fairy, and any one who gets a leaf from that plant 
and eats it, besides being alae young and beautiful, will never 
die. Many of the ancient people of Malacca attempted to get 
some of the leaves, and many lost their lives in the attempts 
because of their absurdity. 
This story was first told by a Malay who accidentally 
reached the top of the mountain. One day while cutting wood 
with some of his companions he was accidentally separated from 
them and was left alone in the forests. What was his alarm 
when he saw a tiger; and being unable to get rid of the wild 
beast, he fell on the ground and fainted, He was carried to 
the fairy, and being a worshipper, as people were in those days, 
he was well treated. He stayed there for several hours, and 
was told to pick some of the largest lumps of saffron and take 
them home. While he was walking the bag became heavier, 
and he then threw some of the lumps away. When he reached 
home he found that the saffron turned into gold. This is the 
story which the Malays as well as the Straits Chinese believe 
about Mt. Ophir or Gunong Leydang.” 
R. J. Wilkinson. 
Golden Flowers. 
There was living in Singapore not many years ago a 
Chinaman in very poor circumstances, who possessed, however, 
a small garden, in which grew a plant of the Pandan Wangi 
(Pandanus laevis), a tree which is often cultivated for its scented 
leaves used for flavouring rice and for making a kind of pot 
pourri used at weddings. He supplied the tree liberally with 
manure, and one moonlight night he was surprised to see it 
bearing a red flower. Going to examine it next day, no flower 
was to be seen, but next night it was there again, and he climb- 
ed up and got it, and put it on a table in his house. On the 
