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Kanawy ; ’ but they spoke to him gently, and said, < No, we 
cannot give them, the Lord Allah has forbidden it.’ Then 
the Rajah grew angry, and said, ‘ I, too, am a great king,’ 
and he climbed up to the nests of the Kanaw^’^s under the 
rafters of the house, and looked into the nests where the eggs 
shone like large emeralds, and he put his hand out to take 
them, and behold — lie was in the forest, alone, under the teSk- 
tree, and the houses and the beautiful maidens with the 
champaka dowers in their hair had vanished, and the beautiful 
white-birds were flying screaming away to the river; and 
the Ora'ng Ka-benar-aii considered, and said, ‘ The Lord Allah 
has been ver}’ kind to us, in giving us tour days of the society of 
the mortals whom we may find in our village, but this is too 
long, and if by chance one succeed in taking the eggs of the 
Kanawy we shall fall under his displeasure ; we will, therefore, 
in future keep our visitors for three days only and since that 
time many mortals have been admitted among the Orang ICa- 
benar-an, but at the end of the third day they have always been 
awakened where the first lay down, by the last sounds of 
the music and voices of the invisible people dying slowly away 
in the rustling of the wind among the tops of the jungle.” 
