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But Lai Behari Day, tells us in his i Folk-Tales of Bengal ' 

 (Macmillan 1883) that every orthodox Bengali story ends with a 

 very similar set of lines as a formula. 



In Malay Literature, Part II, pp. 20-22, 63-67, I pointed 

 out how very like the Malay tale of " Si Lunchai " is to the Burmese 

 story of " Saw Kay." Has this Burmese tale perhaps a Mon 



origin ? 



On p. 62 of the same pamphlet or in Cherita Jenaka will 

 be found an outline of the Malay story of Pa Belalang: — Cherita 

 Jenaka gives the tale at length in Malay. A. F. von Dewall also 

 has printed " Tjeritera Pak Belalang " in his Bunga Rampai, 

 Part IV (Batavia, 1902). The tale occurs in Central Celebes, 

 among the Bataks and in Macassar — vide pp. 377-379 of a paper 

 by Dr. Adriani on the literature of the Toradja (Tijdschrift, 

 Bat. Gen. XI, deel 4). Among the Sunclanese, the hero bears the 

 name of Aki Bolong (cf. Grashuis' Soendaneesch Leesboek) ; 

 among the Javanese the name of Pak Bandjir — in 1873 E. F. 

 Bastiaan printed a metrical version of " Pak Bandjir" (Semarang, 

 von Dorp). And Dr. Hazeu mentions a tale known in Batavia 

 and called " Djankar-Djangkrik " which is a variant of "Pak 

 Bandjir." ' Now Niemann has pointed out (Bijdragen, Koninhlijh 

 Instituut 6 I p. 348) how the Khmer story of Thmenh Chey 

 (Aymonier, Te.vtes Khmers, pp. 20-30) has many points of 

 resemblance with the Indonesian story. For instance. Thmenh 

 Chey is ordered by a prince of Cambodia to solve a riddle pro- 

 pounded by the emperor of China, namely as to the number of 

 seeds in a Chinese water-melon; and by a lucky accident, such as 

 saved Pa Belalang on a similar occasion, Thmenh Chey solves it. 



Dr. Hazeu gives a Batavian story of " Si Kebayan," which 

 bears resemblance to the adventures of A. Lev. recorded on p. 3. 

 sqq. of Aymonier's Textes Klimers. A man called Pak Bali 

 wants to marry his daughter to some one with a " sharp nose " 

 (hidong tajam). Kebayan secretes sugar coffee and sweets in Pak 

 Bali's house and wins the daughter by pretending to nose them ! 

 Kebayan goes with his father-in-law to cut bamboo, but tiring of 

 the work exclaims, " I smell a tiger," which puts an end to the 

 day's toil. Kebayan and his father-in-law go to the tomb of the 

 latter' s wife to pray but growing tired Kebayan exclaims, " I smell 

 the devil," which puts an end to their devotions. 



There are the Javanese tales of Watu-Gfunong and Nawang- 

 Wulan, which occur moreover among many of the peoples of the 

 Malay Archipelago — see p. 379 of Adriani's paper cited above. 

 Parallels to these tales are' to be found in Contes et legendes Anna- 

 mites (LIII and LIV), in Landes' Excursions and Reconnaissances 

 X p. 43. And the story of " Le Fort," VIII in Landes' Contes 

 Tjames (Saigon 1887) bears a likeness to the tale of " Todjo." 



Landes' Contes Tjames, {Excursions et Reconnaissances 

 XIII) gives a story called " Xoix de Coco" which finds parallels 



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