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they were close enough they blew darts from their blow¬ 
pipes and the dragons fell down to the earth and were 
immediately killed. Thereupon they proceeded to cut 
the five dragons up into pieces and cook them in different 
ways. Now the pieces that Avere placed in bamboo 
stems soon began to boil over, and the liquid poured 
over the sides of the bamboo and formed a river ; then 
the day turned into night and there was thunder and 
lightning, and it rained for seven days and seven 
nights and flooded the earth and everybody was 
drowned except two people- a man and woman. These 
two escaped to the top of a mountain called Tiang 
Laju ;■ where they lived for seven days and seven 
nights, and then the flood began to subside and the 
man and woman came down to the plain, and this man 
and woman became the origin of the white race. Then 
the Bctara (the chief deity who lives highest in the 
heavens) had pity on these two people, and upon 
those who were drowned, so he collected the spirits or 
souls of all those who were drowned and ordered one 
god Salampandai by name (maker of mam kind) to 
come down to the earth and put the souls of the dead 
people back ; so they all came to life again and after 
a time they increased in number. Not long after, one 
god. bv name Antu Grasi (Demon hunter), began eating 
up these people and nobody could prevent him : at 
which Betara grew very angry and ordered one Nading 
piling (no meaning apparently: a minor deity) to 
attack the country of Antu Grasi. So Nading Kling 
thereupon asked the help of Sengalang Burong (the god 
of war) and Kling of Panggaw Libau to assist him in 
attacking Antu Grasi. So these three gods collected a 
large force, attacked Antu Grasi and put him to flight. 
Now it happened that the force, on their way home,, 
ran short of provisions; but providentially they came 
across some big mushrooms called Liun Aun (meaning 
‘it would take a year to go round’) which they felled 
and then cooked; with these they staved off their 
hunger, but the poison of the mushroom intoxicated 
J Thing Laju a high mountain in the Batang Lupar district. Tiang 
moans a post arid Laju means swift. I am informed that this mountain was 
sacred foimeily, and the top has never been cleared of jungle yet, it being' too 
steep. The Chinese haw lived at. the foot now for some years. 
