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" Why have you been so long without running riot through 

 the country and subduing it ? Perhaps you have no magic. 

 For if perchance you had the proper magic you must inevit= 

 ably subdue this country." 



" Teach me this magic, so that I may be enabled to subdue 

 this country." 



" Perhaps if I teach you, you will not believe me." 



" If you teach me I will certainly believe you." While 

 they were talking thus the tiger observed the jar of bird lime 

 and the cotton, and said, " What is this, Salam di Eimba ? " 



Salam di Eimba answered, " This is it, this is the great 

 magic. If you apply this to your body, your body must ine- 

 vitably increase in strength and your courage will also become 

 greater." 



The tiger said, " Please apply it to my body." 



So Salam di Eimba spread the bird lime all over his body 

 and face and eyes. Afterwards he did the same with the 

 cotton. Then when this work was all finished and the tiger 

 had been blinded he called the people all together and ordered 

 them to set fire to all the lalang grass in that place- So the 

 people fired the grass. The tiger hurled himself upstream and 

 downstream, but the fire caught him and devoured him and he 

 forthwith died. After that the people went to tell the king. 

 And the king rejoiced greatly at the news that the tiger had 

 died. Salam di Eimba went before the king and made obei- 

 sance saying, 



- " Pardon my lord, the tiger has been safely destroyed, 

 and now your slave would claim the fulfilment of your former 

 promise." The king said, 



" When I am ready I will fulfil my promise." 



So the king made great preparations for the marriage of 

 his daughter with the pelandok. Salam di Eimba said, 



" Please do not marry her to your slave, for your slave is 

 only an animal. Let my lord marry her to my adopted son." 



U, A. Soc, >"o. 43, 1907 



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