Folk-Lore in Borneo : a Sketch
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" Jack and the Bean Stalk " is a parallel story in our own folk- lore. Sir Spencer St. John* gives a Dayak account of the in- troduction of rice among the Orang Iban, as they call them- selves, which states that " when mankind had nothing to eat but fruit and a species of fungus which grows round the roots of trees, a party of Ibans, among whom was a man named Si Jura (whose descendants live to this day in the village of Simpok) went forth to sea. They sailed on for a long time until they came ...to a place where they heard the distant roar of a large whirlpool, and, to their amazement, saw before them a huge fruit tree rooted in the sky and thence hanging down, with its branches touching the waves. At the request of his companions, Si Jura climbed among its boughs to collect the fruit, which was in abundance ; when he got among the boughs, he was tempted to ascend the trunk and find how the tree grew in that position. On looking down he saw his companions making off with the boat loaded * " Forests of the Far East," vol.
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" Jack and the Bean Stalk " is a parallel story in our own folk- lore. Sir Spencer St. John* gives a Dayak account of the in- troduction of rice among the Orang Iban, as they call them- selves, which states that " when mankind had nothing to eat but fruit and a species of fungus which grows round the roots of trees, a party of Ibans, among whom was a man named Si Jura (whose descendants live to this day in the village of Simpok) went forth to sea. They sailed on for a long time until they came ...to a place where they heard the distant roar of a large whirlpool, and, to their amazement, saw before them a huge fruit tree rooted in the sky and thence hanging down, with its branches touching the waves. At the request of his companions, Si Jura climbed among its boughs to collect the fruit, which was in abundance ; when he got among the boughs, he was tempted to ascend the trunk and find how the tree grew in that position. On looking down he saw his companions making off with the boat loaded * " Forests of the Far East," vol.
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