274A KLIENG’S WAR-RAID TO THE SKIES. 
Sampurei—* “What about the army, cousin Laja? Shall 
we try its mettle? 
Laja—Try it, cousin, that we may know whose hearts are 
brave and fearless. 
And Sampurei donned his plumes of hair like shoots of 
the dimiding fern, 
Donned his purple coat like the black plumage of the 
crow, 
And grasped his slantingly cut shield. 
And he rose up and shouted like the roaring of the cave 
tiger. 
“The enemy,” said Bulan Menyimbang. “ Who are 
VOI ae 
We are not to be asked about.” 
“ We are the army of Tedai from the circle of the roomy 
heavens,” 
‘The army of Chendan from the rising shining moon.” 
And they fought with spears sounding like thumping 
blows of the boat-builders. 
They struck with swords, as if cutting through the pan- 
dan bushes. 
And Ngelai was beaten by the company of Sampurel. 
“Let us stop the juke, Sampurei, enough to have tested 
our friends.” 
And they ceased the play. 
And called back the great mass of the army, 
Numerous as the unknown spirits. 
And the army went forward. 
The foremost were not within hearing of a cailing voice, 
As the hindmost were just bending to rise and advance. 
The middle sounded like the pounding of the gurah 
fruit when seeking the tuba.t 
Sampurei and his followers, coming up to Klieng’s army, feign them- 
selves to be enemies, and get up a fight with it by way of joking. 
+ The juice of the “tuba” (derris cliptica) reotis commonly used for 
poisoning fish, which are thus obtained in great numbers: but other products 
of the jungle will serve the same purpose, and amongst these is a fruit called 
“gurah,’ Which may possibly be the cocculus indicus. 
