BY .THE HEYI). AY. IIOWELL. 
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Orang ti ngerempong 
ka prabong tunggal 
tulang, 
Orang ti rnegai rumah 
panjai temejai ngakar 
tengang: 
71 — “Nama ti kita kumbai 
sa kayu rumah panjai 
temejai ngakar ten- 
fT ci tt or 
Ilg, 
Nama ti kita paclah 
ka kitai sa rumah ne- 
sau lawang?” 
72— “Oh, bisi me jako kitai 
ka dikenang, 
Ma kernah tau enda 
dipadah k a d i m o a 
orang ? 
Ma kernah kitai sa ka¬ 
yu rumah panjai enda 
ditusoi awak ka nemu 
sa bilang orang ?” 
73— “Kami tadikanyelam 
di tepian ninga utai 
bedendam di p u n g - 
gang jamban ; 
Ka mandi di lepong 
ninga utai pegereng- 
gong di punggang 
kampong.” 
74 — “Baik me kita nemu 
lari,” pia ko Embuang 
siduai Jami, 
“Utai ti bemunyi di 
punggang titi ma nya 
enda Antu W i ka 
nanggam nanchang? 
“Utai ti pegerenggong 
di punggang kampong 
ma nya enda A n t u 
Lumbong ka ngaroh 
puang ?” 
He who rules over the 
house with the single 
roof-tree, 
He who rules the long 
house that stretches along 
as straight as the tengang 
creeper, is speaking loud¬ 
ly : 1 
“Why are you calling all 
the people of this long 
house that is built straight 
as the tengang creeper ? 
“And why do you send for 
us of the same house and 
from every room ?” 
“Oh, if there is something 
to talk about, 
“Is it possible not to tell 
people ? 
“Is it possible for us in this 
long house not to relate 
it in order that everybody 
may know ?” 
“Some of us wanted to 
bathe just no\A T at the 
bathing place and heard 
a mysterious noise at the 
end of the bridge ; 
“Some of us wanted to 
bathe in the pool and 
heard as it Avere the sound 
of brass vessels clashing 
together at the edge of 
the jungle.” 
“It is AA r ell that ye ran 
away,” thus say Embuang 
and Jampi, 
“That sound at the end of 
the bridge was it not the 
Spirit Wi who seizes and 
binds people ? 
“And that sound as it were 
the clashing together of 
brazen vessels was it not 
the Spirit Lumbong that 
for no reason will seize 
and enshroud people ?” 
7 -L--The Spirit Lumbong is the spirit of the coffin. 
