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them and while under the influence of the poison they 
talked all sorts of nonsense amongst themselves and the 
Betara turned them into Bukitans, Ukits, Malays, and 
Chinese. 
Now one child did not eat of the poisonous mush¬ 
rooms because the Betara had hidden this child in the 
hollow of a bamboo. After some time one Radin 
Tanjong § and his wife Diang Nor (of another country ; 
parentage not known) left their house to bathe in the 
river, and on their way down to the river the hair of 
Diang Nor got caught in the branches of a bamboo tree 
and her husband cut down the bamboo and she freed her 
hair ; he then split the stem of the bamboo and out 
came a child which they adopted and named Diang 
Idah who is the origin of the tribe called Iban. 
The Dayak for dragon is Naga or Nabau ; this latter 
name being applied to a Python of enormous size, 
which frequently figures in Dayak legends. 
For another account of the Deluge from Sea-Dayak 
sources, see an article by Archdeacon Perharn in the 
Journal of the Straits Branch , Royal Asiatic Society , No. 
VI. p. 289, 1880, and the same in Sarawak Gazette , No. 
133. p. 53, which is quoted by Ling Roth in Natives of 
Sarawak and North Borneo. Vol. I. pp. 301-302. 
F. A. W. Page-Turner. 
The Origin of the Murats. 
It is a noticeable fact that in the reading or hearing 
of the derivation of the various human races, the same 
epoch appears, little differing in the accounts, namely 
the Flood, so it is with the Muruts. It is recounted 
that but two people survived—man and his wife. 
Their union was blessed with many children, but 
strange to relate all were boys. The years passed by, 
§ Radin Tanjong was the second child of the man and woman M ho came 
down from Tiang Laju—that is of white parentage. 
c Tiang Laju is thus the origin of the Iban race as the grand-parents of 
Diang Idah came from there. 
