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F. A. de Roepstorff— Ttoinhero'tnhi. 
[No. 1, 
berombi, iuclitere tenfatgiiede en 
omia. 
Tiimende omia, obngnede rgewe 
en Tiomberombi, io Idat ko(i)n 
kontiA Jncbtere, aeteet de lebre 
Tiomberombi, komliata de lebre da 
omia. Hat sko en Tiomberombi 
na omia, dalgnato. 
Jncbtere rgewe kande en Tiom¬ 
berombi, kae ta kande kon omia ; 
sliomhagne da gni Tiomberombi da 
bllienlowe. 
Jnckter^ batse-ee-liende beang 
danoe tiong benkok, io orignafa 
Tiomberombi. Katow en Tiomber¬ 
ombi de gnide. Hakok, bakSk de 
gni Tiomberombi, bat taio. 
Jncbtere tentioablare en Tiom¬ 
berombi da 61 tiong, faebange de 
to batbe, and wben be looks out to 
sea be sees Tiomberombi’s bonse 
Tiomberombi’s island, then be falls 
down (in astonishment). 
* He weeps and sets off to fetch 
Tiomberombi, that be might be¬ 
come bis son-inlaw. Also Tiom¬ 
berombi wrote a letter and sent 
it to the chief. The chief does not 
want (to meet personally) Tiom¬ 
berombi for be is shy. 
Then Tiomberombi marries : as 
bis wife comes the daughter of the 
chief; she is brought to Tiombe¬ 
rombi’s bonse in the deep sea. 
f Then came sailing (from a dis¬ 
tant land) a ship armed with can¬ 
non to kill Tiomberombi. He re¬ 
mained in bis bonse. The ship 
went on firing and firing at Tiom¬ 
berombi’s house but did not bit it. 
J Then Tiomberombi boarded the 
ship and cut the noses and cut off 
* Great is bis astonishment, and it affects him so mticb, that be falls 
down and weeps. The text is not very clear on this point. It says that 
the old man goes off to fetch T. for a son-in-law, then T. writes him a 
letter and it ends by saying that the chief does not want to meet him, as 
be is shy. It is quite clear that the tables are turned. Before the old 
man despised the poor, ragged T. How be feels shy to approach him in 
bis great prosperity. Whether the letter from T. is friendly, and 
therefore puts the old man to shame, or the letter is haughty and makes 
him feel shy, the text leaves to fancy to decide. On the whole the Hico- 
barese are shy, and affect to be more so, than they really are. Difficulties, 
however, are overcome, and Tiomberombi attains his wishes and marries 
the girl whom he loves, who moreover, it is evident from the first, loves 
him as is seen from his remarks about her in the introduction. 
f Ho earthly pleasure is unalloyed. When he is happily married and 
settled enemies appear on the scene to kill him. He is however pro¬ 
tected by magic and sits unconcernedly in his house, whilst the guns of 
the man-of-war, which had come to destroy him, make ineffectual at¬ 
tempts to hit it. 
J At length Tiomberombi arises and proceeds to board the ship single 
handed and mutilates the crew. The man-of-war thereupon returns to 
