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choose the Kanawy, for he stands by the river-side and watches 
the canoes, and so we shall always know when and wliere 
our friends are going ’ ” (it must be remembered that rivers are 
the only roads in these countries). “ So when the angel saw 
how they loved mankind, he gave them the Kain^wy, and 
granted them still farther, that if ever a man benighted in the 
jurtgle should lie dowm to sleep within the fence of their invi- 
sible village, they should have for four days the privilege of 
making themselves visible to him, and of entertaining him in 
their houses, but he hid them beware of giving their vdsitors 
the eggs of the Kanawy ; and so the angel departed. Now, 
after this, men wondered much wdmt had become of the 
friendly spirits of the woods, but as no one happened to fall 
asleep in the charmed ground, it was many, many hundred 
years before it became known, and thus it happened : there 
was a certain Kajah who studied magic, and to do so more 
conveniently he used to w^ander with his hooks in the jungles, 
and one night as he crossed the village of the Ka-benar-an he 
sat down under a teak-tree, and fell asleep. Instantly he 
found himself among the friendly spirits, wdio caressed him in 
every way, and beat gongs, and sang pantuns^ (Malay poetry), 
and did everything to testify their delight at being again visi- 
ble to a mortal. They dressed him in silk samngs and salen- 
dangs (dilferent kinds of waistcloths), gave him akris covered 
with gold and jew'els, and the most beautiful maidens brought 
him Inscions fruits and choice sw'eetmeats, and offered him 
betel and cigars ; and so three days passed away, but at the 
end of the third day the ungrateful E-ajah grew tired of his 
fair companions, and their delicate dainties, and asked for rice 
and salt-fish : rice they gave him in abundance, but salt fish 
they had none, so he asked for a fowl’s-egg, but they had no 
fowls : then he turned his eyes upon the beautiful wdiite birds 
w’alking about the house, and said, ‘ Give me the eggs of the 
* Pajituns. — Mr. Crawfurd in liis “ Grammar of the IMalay Language ” giTes the 
following accoimt of this hind of poetry : “ The pantun is, even among the islanders 
of the Archipelago, peculiar to the Malays. It is a quatrain stansm, in which the 
altcniate lines rhyme, or in which all the lines rhyme together. The two first lines 
contain an assertion or proposition, while the two last purport to be an application 
