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Updated: June 27, 2025
Now, if I keep the coat, I can shake it down there. To this the faqir agreed, and off went Bikru with the coat. Meanwhile, King Karan came toiling up the hill, and was surprised, when he entered the faqir's house, to find the fire out, the frying-pan put away, and the faqir himself as holy as ever, but not in the least hungry. 'Why, what is the matter? faltered the King.
Then, when the last golden piece had been fought for, King Karan would sit down to his breakfast, and enjoy it as a man who has kept his word should do. Now, when people saw the King lavishing his gold in this fashion, they naturally thought that sooner or later the royal treasuries must give out, the gold come to an end, and the King who was evidently a man of his word die of starvation.
'Why will ye not eat? quoth King Karan wrathfully; 'am I not as generous as Bikramajit? Then the swan's wife answered, and said, 'Kings do not imprison the innocent. Kings do not war against women. If Bikramajit were here, he would at any rate let me go!
The Somal divide their year into four seasons: Haga is the hot season after the monsoon, and corresponding with our autumn: the country suffers from the Fora, a violent dusty Simum, which is allayed by a fall of rain called Karan. Dair, the beginning of the cold season, opens the sea to shipping.
At first it towered in its pride of greatness, then it grew soft in the blue distance. At last the railway turns abruptly at Karan Tenjak, and it is gone. As the train nears Soekaboemi the character of the country changes. Plantations of sugar in the level country and of tea on the uplands take the place of ricefields.
Yet they were not ungrateful, for as they flew they sang the praises of Bikramajit. Now, King Karan was watching his servants bring out the baskets of gold, when the wild swans came flying over his head; and when he heard them singing, 'Glory to Bikramajit! Glory to Bikramajit! he said to himself, 'Who is this whom even the birds praise?
Then Karan hung the cage in the palace, and ordered his servants to bring every kind of birds' food; but the proud swans only curved their white necks in scorn, saying, 'Glory to Bikramajit! he gave us pearls to eat! Then King Karan, determined not to be outdone, sent for pearls; but still the scornful swans would not touch anything.
When he stopped talking, Karan struck him from in front just below the ribs with his fighting knife, and Umook struck him from in back. The other men present who were willing to pay for the privilege then struck at the body with their knives. The body was then cut down and buried in a shallow grave already prepared for it.
When he was crisp and brown, the faqir ate him, picked the bones, set them together, sang a charm, and finished the business by bringing out his dirty, old ragged coat, which he shook and shook, while the bright golden pieces came tumbling out of the pockets on to the floor. So that was the way King Karan got his gold, and if you think it very extraordinary, so do I!
His account is as follows: "Sololin of Ma-al, the wife of Karan, a Bila-an living near Digos, died and her husband, in company with Umook, Gamban, and Bunod, Bagobos of Digos, and the people of Labau, decided that a sacrifice was necessary both because of the death and in order that the size, wealth, and fame of the tribe might be increased.
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