KLIENG’S WAR-RAID TO THE SKIES. 983 
‘“ Let it fall to the earth in the middle of the road. 
“Tear and squeeze the heart of Tedai. 
“ Fell the nibong palm to be suspended ; 
*“ Let it fall to the ground at the end of the bridge. 
“Tear and squeeze ‘the heart of Chendan.” 
Tedai—Why sing you so, cursing our hearts? 
Klieng—We are confused, cousin; our heads are giddy; we 
will stop. 
And getting up they climbed to the upper room when 
they heard weeping and wailing.* 
s 0 the sorrow of my conception of Indai Mendong, half 
“ of the full moon. 
“ T thought she would have won a husband. 
s; Who would shout hke a pasunt in the attacking 
‘arm 
s Al unripe her father and I shall be used by Tedai (as 
“a sacrifice) to raise the Pandong of the rhinoceros 
“ hornbill. 
“O the vanity of giving birth to Kuning Jawa 
“JT thought she would have married a man, 
“Even a dragon-fly, accustomed to rush and strike and 
sting the ribs ( of the enemy). 
“They cannot rescue her father and me who are to be 
“killed by Tedai to make the war plums.”’ 
And Bungkok seized the iron cage. 
They cried out, thinking death was near. 
“Ttis1;” said Klieng Bujang Ranggong Tunegang. 
“Tt is I ;” said Laja, brother of the virgin “Lantan Sakum- 
bang. 
And they rejoiced in spirit. 
Klieng pressed them into a lump the size of a squirrel: 
Held in his hand they became as small as a pinang. 
He stowed them in his quiver, and only when arrived at 
home did he take them out. 
* In the upper part of the house they hear the captive father and 
mother of Tutong wailing and bemoaning their fate, as destined by Tedai for 
a forthcoming sacrifice. They are confined in an iron cage. 
y+ Ananimal something like a dog. 
