Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula - Sabrizain.org

TEXT OF BESISI SONGS 651
Telon klewen di-atas^ rambun.-
The Python coiled in the top of the brushwood.
Telon klewcn di-dalam lumbun.-'
The Python coiled among the grass.
T6lon lep lobang batang.
The Python that enters the hole in the tree-trunk.
Telon lochoyn * bilang sawa'.
The Python spotted thai is called 'sawa'."
Iku t^lon bage g.ising.^
The tail of the Python is like a peg-top.
Lidah telon bawang putih.
The tongue of the Python is like garlic.^
Lemoyn telon duri pandan.
The teeth of the Python are thorns of tlie screw-pine.'^
Telon lemak dalam gobuk.^
The Python that is fat in its cheeks.
Koi telon bage sendok.
The head of the Python is like a spoon.
Sisek ^ koi bage amas,
The scales of its head are like-unto gold,
Jare' mui ratus ampat puloh.^**
And its feet ^^ are one hundred and forty.
Kret kadui bage niyu.
Its body is big as a coconut-/^/;//.
Tijau telon telan kdtur,
The Python that swallow j- the wild -pig,
Telan kctur higap pandok.^^
Swallowj^ wild-pig and captures the mouse-deer.
Telan pandok, higap rusa'.
Swallows the mouse-deer a)id captures the sambhur-deer.
Ttilan rusa', higap a'a'.
Swallows the deer, and captures the tiger.
=Bes. "kulong." ^ White onions, i.e. garlic, a very
^ = " Ujong kayu." apt description. Mai. " bawang " =
3 =Mal. "rumput."
•» " Lochoyn
Bes. "bantut."
" = Mai. "rintek."
^ This seems to be the right meaning.
It refers, of course, to the tip of
the Python's tail. A z;./. is " gaweng,"
^ Bes. " Hakek habll" Mai.
;
"duri" = Bes. "jongreng."
^ " Lemak" = Bes. "lentoyt"; "go-
buk" = jMal. "pipi."
which was said to mean the tip (of ^ =Bes. "ketong."
a tail), but this is obviously wrong, '^^ The ribs on which it walks, corre-
as there is no sense in saying that its spending to the feet of a centipede,
"tail" was "like its tip." I am " Ze. ribs. Z//. fingers or toes,
convinced " gasing " = " peg - top " is ^^ " Telan" = " geloyt" (?) or "ge-
right, loyn" v.s.