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?" To’ Ĕntah 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 To’ Ĕntah what was to be his reward for the service he had performed, on which To’ Ĕntah 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 To’ Ĕntah went to Pagar-rûyong[1] (in Sumatra), and his son To’ Tĕrjĕli came across again thence and settled in Jĕlĕbu.
To’ Tĕrjĕli had eight sons—Batin Tunggang Gâgah, who settled in Kelang; Bâtin Changei Bĕsi, who lived in Jĕlĕbu; Bâtin Âlam, who settled in Johor; Bâtin Pĕrwei, who went across to Pagar-rûyong; Bâtin Siam, who went to Siam; Bâlin Mînang, who crossed to Měnangkâbau; Bâtin Pahang, who settled in the country of that name; Bâtin Stambul, who went to Stambul; and Bâtin Râja, who ruled over Moar.
Penghûlus were first made by To’ Tĕrjĕli, who placed one at Beruang in Kĕlang, the To’ Klâna Putrâ at Sungei Ujong, To’ Aki Saman in Jĕlĕbu, To’ Mutan Jantan, a woman, at Kwâla Moar, and her husband Janhan Pahlâwan Lêla Pĕrkâsa he removed to Johol: hence, to preserve the memory of the first female ruler, the
- ↑ "Rûyong" is the "nibong," of which the fence round the Râja's place was made, (Areca nibong).
