KLIENG’S WAR-RAID TO THE SLIES. 985 
Forward rushed Laja, and met the like fate. 
And many were slain by Tedai. 
Then for the first time Tedai met Bungkok face to face. 
Klieng—W hat is your title, cousin, when you strike the snake ? 
What is your title, cousin, when you smite the boa? 
Tedai—My title, cousin, is the Big Bambu, overshadowing 
the houses : 
Melanjan, cousin, is another with a branch of red-ripe 
fruit. 
Klieng—Ilf you are Big Bambu, cousin, overshadowing the 
houses, I am Short Sword to cut the Bambu. 
If you are Melanjan, cousin, I am Growling Bear, making 
my nest on the Me/anjan tree, making it cease to bear 
red-ripe fruit. 
And Tedai rushed forward and threw at him a spear, the 
beak of the white kingfisher : 
And hurled at him a lance with double-barbed head. 
And pierced was Bungkok in the apron of his waist cloth, 
Grazed were the ribs of his side: 
When off dropped the disguise covering his body ; 
Away fell the sweat-preventing coat. 
Then it was they recognised him to be Klieng, secing he 
was handsomer than before. 
And Klieng paid back: he aimed at him a spear newly 
hilted with horn. 
And Tedai was struck and fell; and was seized by Tatau 
Ading. 
He fell leaning against the palm tree of Bungai Nuying. 
Klieng—Tedai’s head do not strike off, Sampurei, lest we have 
no more enemies to fight with. 
And the great army drew back to return. 
Rushing and rustling they marched along the highway. 
They filed through the gloomy jungles, sounding like an 
army of woodmen : 
Through solitudes uninhabited, full of weird sounds. 
