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Updated: June 17, 2025
The chief incidents in the narrative of the turtle and the monkey have been recorded from the Kenyah of Borneo and from the northern peninsula of Celebes ; the race between the shell and the carabao is told in British North Borneo in regard to the plandok and crab, while it is known to European children as the race between the turtle and the hare.
It was conspicuously pregnant and passed unconcernedly just back of the tent. As the flesh is a favourite food of both Dayaks and Malays they immediately gave chase, shouting and trying to surround it, which made the plandok turn back; then the wonderfully agile Saputan chief darted after it and actually caught it alive. Extraordinary agility is characteristic of most Dayaks.
The plandok's liao is given this to eat in order that he may not cause the occupant of the house to die; the animal is then carried into the utan, about an hour's walk, and set free. Three days afterward they sacrifice a pig, the blood of which, with the usual admixture, is given to the bad antoh who sent the plandok, with entreaties not to kill the man.
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