94 MALAY PROVERBS. 



Bagai ikan kena tuba. 



Udang di-dalam tanggok. 



Bagai ulat nangka ter-hempas ka-batu. 



Bagai ruan di-dalam tuar. 



Bagai anak sepat ka-tohor. 



Bagai dekan di-bawah pangkal buloh. 

 Like a fish poisoned with the tuba root. 

 Like a prawn in a prawn-basket. 

 Like jack-fruit grub dashed against a stone. 

 Like a ruan fish in a rattan fish-trap. 

 Like a little sepat fish in the shallows. 

 Like the bamboo-rat under the roots of the bamboo. 



Ruan ^jj and Sepat u^JL* are both small fish found in the 

 padt.swB.mpSf and are usually caught by means of a serkap. 

 Tuar j\y = a fish-trap of a conical shape, made from the 



onak thorn, and so constructed that a fish can enter without 

 difficulty, but cannot get out without being hooked by the 

 thorns. 



20 >£y ^lo fii ^ 



Bagai ayam di-makan tungau. 



Like a fowl devoured by parasites. 



Poorly ; seedy-looking ; in poor condition. 



Tungau &j> = a small red parasite found on the sand-sprits 



which line the river-banks in the Peninsula. It breeds in the 

 dung of buffaloes. 



