276 KLIENG’S WAR-RAID TO THE SKIES. 
I will give a tooth with which you may ascend to the 
house of grandmother Manang.* 
Klieng— lf so, I will let you go. 
So Bungkok let the spirit go free. 
And the main army began to arrive at the hill Perugan 
Bulan ; 
Close to the precincts of grandmother Manang. 
And came to the rising shining moon. 
“ Rest all ye of the army; said Sampurei ; 
“* May be we are vainly following the paths and tracks of 
wild beasts.” 
Klieng—We shall not return without gain and without spoil. 
Sampurei—How so? 
Klieng—Whenever I have gone to inflict fines, never did I 
return empty-handed : 
Every day did I bring a string of knobbed gongs. 
Whenever I have gone on the war-path, never did I 
return unsuccessful. 
Every month did I get a seed of nibong palmt 
Here let us test the skill of the woman, the stimulant 
of the bones. 
Whose hands are those which can work skilfully ? 
And Sampurei arose, and threw up a ball of dressed thread ; 
And it became a clump of bambus. 
Sapungga arose, and tossed a ball of raw thread ; 
And it became a plant of rotan. 
And the Chief set in the ground the spirit’s tooth, 
And he arrived at the falling, setting sun. 
He planted the spirit’s tooth, and it “reached to the rising 
shining moon : 
It became a ladder of ironwood, perfect with eighteen 
steps. 
And eae stood up, and tossed a ball of red dyed thread 
to the sloping heavens ; 
* An old medicine woman who is supposed to live in the skies, and to 
have in her keeping the ‘door of heaven,” through which the rain falls to 
the earth. 
+ Meaning a human head. 
