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Rh Plenteous be our fruit, our rice-crops be plenteous. Fruit, fruit, fruit, fruit, hurrah!"

The conclusion of the song about the Kledang (a kind of fruit) runs:

And the conclusion of the Monkey-song runs:

There are, however, two other songs which refer to different subjects; the first is a Bathing-song for the little maidens of the tribe, which concludes with the following passage:

A passage which brings it into line with the animal and fruit songs. I think these passages are conclusive as to the connection for which I contend.

But the song that interests us most nearly is that of the Fish-trap (lukah), which seems to me to have a distinct relation to the Fish-trap dance of the civilised Malays.

Ting ting hât is the small-waisted Fish-trap, The trap that was made by Mamat Alang. The trap is set in the river yonder. Enter it, O fish, that with scales are covered. The Tapah fish, and the fish Sabarau,