It is I who fell the jungle,
But only with the permission of those two persons.
Rise, rise, O Ye who watch it (the tin?),
[Here are] three ‘chews’ of betel for you, and three cigarettes,
O Maimurup, O Maimerah, O Gadek Hitam,
Si Gadek Hitam (Black Grannie) from Down-stream,
Si Gadek Kuning (Yellow Grannie) from Up-stream,
And Si Maimerah from Mid-stream.”](Here some lines follow which are as yet untranslatable.)
“Retire ye and avaunt from hence,
If ye retire not from hence,
As you stride, your leg shall break,
As you stretch your hand out, your hand shall be crippled,
As you open your eye (to look), your eyeball shall burst,
Your eye stabbed through with a thorn of the T’rong Asam,^261
And your hand pierced with the Sĕga jantan,^262
And your finger-nails with Heart of Brazilwood.
Moreover, your tongue shall be slit with a bamboo splinter,
For thus was it sworn by ‘Grandfather Sakernanaininaini’^263
Into the leaf (of the) Putajaya,
Upon the summit of the mountain of Ceylon.I know the origin from which you spring,
From the Black Blood and the Red,
That was your origin.
We are two sons of one father, but with different inheritances;
In my charge is Gold and Tin-ore,
In yours are Rocks and Sand,
With chaff and bran.”(2) To clear evil spirits away from the ground before commencing the work of
excavation. The charm for this is given in the Appendix, but is little more than a
list of names.