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she turned to a pig altogether and ran off into the jungle, and Jiluan, when he got home and told his story, was very soundly rated by his proper wife, Tugau's daughter, for his conduct in trying to marry the other lady.

Thus Jiluan tried to defy the old custom of his people and marry two wives, and by so doing brought no manner of good upon himself but only trouble, as any man must if he sets at naught the traditionary laws handed down from the people of long ago.

As a parallel to this story it is worth while comparing the fable of Laboh and the human elephants told in Skeat's Malay Magic, Chapter V., pp. 151, 152, and 153. In it the elephant- princess is wounded by a caltrop instead of a spear; Laboh marries and lives with her some time, and they have children ; and, finally, she is changed back into animal form while going back to Laboh's country with him, by eating young tree-shoots with her rice, instead of by contact with water while crossing rivers.

A. E. Lawrence.