A NAMING RECITAL. 13 
Down stream to Kampar Kiri ! 
170. Where the water conies in rolling billows, 
Where the waves break white in foam, 
Where the beaches glare in the sun, 
Where the sand-banks stretch seaward, 
Where the long islands lie on the tide, 
Where the merchandise goes out and in, 
Where the traders sell and buy: 
Who was the sovereign there? 
Dato’ Temenggong Bendahara Kaya. 
And there he made this law : 
180. The debtor shall quit the debt, 
The sinner shall pay the forfeit, 
The slayer shall be slain. 
That was the Custom of Dato’ Temenggong Benda- 
hara Ivaya. ( 18 ) 
190. 
200 . 
Homage, O Chief ! 
And then, 
Up stream to Kampar Kanan ! 
A place of pools, a gallon to each, 
A place of sandy banks and ledges, 
A place of boulders scattered and heaped, 
A place of climbing and twining creepers, 
A place of tangled and chafing boughs; 
Where squirrels race and frisk on the trees. 
Where monkeys leap from branch to branch. 
Where long-armed apes dangle and swing, 
Where mouse-deer nig’vtly come to bathe, 
Where water-voles return to slumber. 
Where the hornbill flits and passes by; 
A place of snakes sleeping and coiled, 
A place of wildcats sleeping curled, 
A place of bullfrogs nightly croaking, 
A place of black apes howling and calling, 
A place of gibbons sadly moaning, 
A place of birth-ghosts shrieking and wailing, ( 19 ) 
A place of high hills and open glades. 
And they looked to the open glade. 
And were ware of a two-legged fowl, 
Beheld from afar a black crow, 
Seen near at hand an egret white, 
Broad of wing and long of pinion, 
Soaring aloft, 
210. Skimming along cloud-high, 
Alighting on a leafless tree, 
Kenning all things afar.( 20 ) 
The song 
tells of the 
seaward 
realm of 
Dato’ Te- 
menggong. 
And of his 
Law of 
Talion. 
Of the 
landward 
realm of 
Dato’ Per- 
pateh. 
And fin the 
parable of a 
strange fowl 
seen therein) 
of the Cus- 
tom that he 
made. 
R. A. Soc., No. 83, 1921. 
