KLIENG’S WAR-RAID TO THE SKIES. 269 
nous sparks of the milky way. Great was the shame of 
Negelai Bujang Pedar Umbang.* Then spoke Bungkok 
Arok Papong Engkiyong :— 
Ktieng—lLet us three Ngelai and Bulan Menyimbang get 
birdlime.+ 
Ngelai—To-day ? Shall we return in a day? 
Klieng—Nay, we spend nights away, and take as provision three 
| pasus of rice. 
Ngelai—W here shall we collect the birdlime ? 
Klieng—Say nothing: let us start and fell the pempan tree of 
Negelai of the Rain Chestnut, where we can arrange our 
weapons : 
Arrange the plumes of hair like shoots of the /emiding fern ; 
Put on the ancient war cap, the well fitting one; 
Take the war charms to gird the loins ; 
Take the shield cut in slanting curves ; 
Gird on the horn-hafted weapons ; 
Take the plumes of hair thickly studding the sheaths ; 
Carry the sumpitan of tapang wood.t 
And away they marched with feathers of the hornbill tos- 
sing in the sheaths. 
Away down the ladder of evenly notched steps, 
Holding the long rails converging at the bottom. 
So started the three setting forth from thence. 
In the day time they pushed on following the sun. 
By night they used flaming torches of light. 
But weak was Bulan Menyimbang, weaker than a scor- 
ched leaf; 
The strength was gone from the midst of his loms. 
He fell to the right, but was caught by the horn-hafted 
sword. | 
He fell to the left, but was held up by the barbed spear 
handle. 
* “Youth of the Pedar (fruit) Skins.” 
+ A metamorphical way of saying: ‘“ Let us go on the war path.” 
{ <A long wooden blow-pipe used for propelling poisoned arrows. 
ca) proj SI 
