20 
A SKA-lmYAK DIRGE. 
Luyan Bujang Langga Remengau. Girls are betitlect 
Dara Rabai Gruda Dayang Sepang Sepaya. These in¬ 
fants as time goes on grow up to be men and women, 
they are able to see and know what is going on in this 
world and in Hades. Some of them visit Hades and tell 
the people there the meaning of the offering. “Don’t 
you know”, say they, “the roll of cotton is the wiper of 
tears, the offering is the emblem of fasting, for So- 
and-So, your daughter or son, your grand-daughter or 
grand-son, is coming?” The people in Hades then 
begin to eat the offering and to chew the betel-nut, 
etc. When the dead meets his (or her) relations he is 
suddenly overcome with fright, and refuses to remain 
in Hades, desiring to return to this world again ; but 
they tell him it is impossible to return, and are they 
not themselves an everlasting proof of this ? 
Sabak Ncrengkali. 
1— Tengkurong rekong 
aku ditempalong ka 
menoa orang ti pum- 
pong nepan di p ra - 
bong tunggal tulang. 
2— Enggat seput jampat 
aku ditempalong ka 
menoa orang ti lama 
tumpat, nyelikap di 
atap ladang grunge 
gang. 
3— Ampan genian aku di¬ 
tempalong ka menoa 
orang ti lama danjan, 
terengkah di ruai Ji- 
ra m a p a i Sabengan 
Manok Menang. 
A Dirge to settle the 
Dead in Hades. 
My Love with the sweetest 
of sweet voices was cast 
away to the land of those 
that were cut off and took 
refuge on the roof tree 
built of a single beam. 
My Love who was wont at 
intervals to respire rapid¬ 
ly, was far-flung to the 
land of those who died 
long long ago and hid 
there beneath a shingle 
made of grunggang wood. 
My Love with the beautiful 
regular teeth was far- 
flung to the land of those 
who died long long ago 
and settled down in the 
reception room of Jiram 
the father of Sabengan 
the Victorious Champion, 
1.—“My Love with sweetest voice”, and similar phrases in the next seven 
ferses, refer to the waiter. “The roof tree built of a single beam” simply 
means the roof. 
3.— Jiram , Langluih ,■ Huge are names of well-known men who died long ago. 
