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iqiS.] I. II. N. Evans: Ethnoi lanea. 215
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Then Tinju Tebik asked Budak Yoid Intoie his name
and he told him. " If that is youi name," said Tinju Tebik"
'where is your knife? " " I don't know." replied Yoid Intoie.
So they sat down to chew betel-nut and Budak Void [ntoie
asked Tinju Tebik" if he had a knife to cut the nut into pie< es
with, but Tinju Tebik" answered, "If I had a knife, my
namewouldnot be Thump-th< Banks." Aftei a little Tinju
Tebik" asked Budak Void Intoie it he had not got a knife and
Budak Void Intoie told him where it was hidden, making him
promise, just as he had done with Rah Serpik, to become his
follower, if he could not lift it. But Tinju Tebik" was not able
to raise the knife any more than Rah Serpik, and Budak Yoid
Intoie went and got it himself.
When they had finished chewing their betel-nut, they set
out ag in. Budak Void Intoie being in front, with Kali Serpik
and Tinju Tebik" following him ; and
the sound of the trees
being cut and falling before Budak Void Intoie was, " Prung
punggau, prung punggau, prung punggau."
After .i lutle time someone cried out from in front as before,
and again Budak Void Intoie called the newcomer to him.
"What is your name'-'" said Budak Void Intoie, and the
stranger replied, " Lingkong Benua (Push-the-Country-
Round)." "Oh," said Budak Void Intoie, "if your name is
Push-the Country-Round, well, just push the country round!"
So Lingkong Benua pushed the country round, till its backbone
was broken ; and Budak Void Intoie said to him, " name is rightly Lingkong Benua."
Your
So they sat down to chew betel-nut and Lingkong Benua
asked Budak Yoid Intoie for his knife, and was not able to lift
it any more than Rah Serpik or Tinju Tebik" had been able
to do.
After a while they continued their journey, and at last they
came to the sea and wished to cross it : and Budak Void Intoie
said to his companions. " Wait here, while I go and search for
a bridge." So he searched, but could not find any. Then he
took his knife and said to it. " Tohoii yang sah! Eng sindrang
sah! Eng saihih! Eng putau! Eng nttjum! Eng blian! Yoidengjadi
papaV ." and the knife in its sheath became a bridge on which
they could cross the sea. But a large dragon came up from
below and waited under the bridge.
Then they went across. Budak Yoid Intoie's comp
being in front of him ; and when they came to the other side.
Budak Yoid Intoie drew his knife from its sheath and cut off
the dragon's head: and it floated away until
ja's bathing-place, and there it remained.
it came to a Ra-
1 I could not get a true translation of some of this charm " Tohoit yaug
sah" seems to bean invocation of some ku ^ (I luck-bringing)
'E«g Hujum (I astrologer) . 1
(I were-tiger), Wnd tag iadi papal (Knife I become plank),
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