982 KLIENG’S WAR-RAID TO THE SKIES. 
And arrived at the house of Pintik. 
Pintik—O that is Sampurei. 
Kliengq—Will you fight with me? 
Pintik—Nay, I simply chose to have a bit of play with Sam- 
purei. 
And they came to the place where people bathe like 
tumbling prawns. 
And as the day was now dim, they rested. 
Lo! there was heard a rattling gigeling talk of argus 
pheasants with shawls red as fire which burns the dry 
jungle.* 
They came to bathe splashing the water about like 
showers of falling rain. 
“ T smell an odour of Sampurei;” so said Bunsu Tedai. 
Klienc—How can they recognise us ? 
Tedai—If Sampurei be really here, his head shall be cut off 
on this tree-trunk. 
[And Sampurei rose up, and thrust at him a spear. ] 
Tedai —There are gadflies about, the day is closing in. 
Sampurei—O my mother! the blow of my spear he thought 
but the sting of a fly! 
And they came forth and ascended the house when the 
feasting was at its height. 
“ Welcome, cousins ; come and sit down.”’ 
And they were given to eat, and were afterwards asked 
to sing the Pandong song.t 
They were willing ; so ran the word. 
KVieng—How goes the song ? [Whatever your skill “suggests; 
said they. | 
Tf so, here it is. 
“ Fell the nidong palm to be suspended (in other trees) ; 
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* Klieng and his friends are now supposed to be near Tedai’s house; 
they le concealed in ambush in the jungle near his bathing place. The 
“arous pheasants,” are women who come for their ablutions. 
They come out of their concealment, and proceed to Tedai’s house as 
friends. <A festival to Singalang Burong is being celebrated. The “ Pandong” 
is a trophy which is erected in the verandah of the house, and upon which 
are hung shields, spears, war-charms, ete. 
