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 equally without effect, and they had to fly before the lĕlâbi. At last he had to apply for the intervention of the kanchil (the smallest of all the deer kind, not so large as a hare); the kanchil said: "What can small creatures like us do?" said: "I have asked all the others, and they have been able to do nothing." Then said the kanchil: "Very well, we will try; you got to one side." And he called together an army of kanchil, the whole of the race, and said: "If we do not kill the lĕlâbi, we all perish, but if we kill him, all is well."

Then they all jumped on to the lĕlâbi, which was of great size, and stamped on him with their tiny hoofs, till they had driven holes in his head and neck and back and killed him.

But in the meantime the body of water which accompanied the lĕlâbi had increased to a vast extent, and formed what is now the sea.

After the destruction of the lĕlâbi, the kanchil asked what was to be his reward for the service he had performed, on which replied that he would take the root of the kledek (a sort of yam) and the kanchil could have the leaves for his share, and they have accordingly ever since been the food of the kanchil.

From Ûlu Kĕnâboi went to Pagar-rûyong (in Sumatra), and his son came across again thence and settled in Jĕlĕbu.

had eight sons—Batin, who settled in Kelang; Bâtin, who lived in Jĕlĕbu; Bâtin , who settled in Johor; Bâtin, who went across to Pagar-rûyong; Bâtin , who went to Siam; Bâlin , who crossed to Měnangkâbau; Bâtin, who settled in the country of that name; Bâtin , who went to Stambul; and Bâtin , who ruled over Moar.

Penghûlus were first made by, who placed one at Beruang in Kĕlang, the at Sungei Ujong,  in Jĕlĕbu, , a woman, at Kwâla Moar, and her husband he removed to Johol: hence, to preserve the memory of the first female ruler, the