, which were fastened into bundles, and, save for the slight
wounds in his hand and on his back, he was little the worse for his
adventures.

He next went to the Makam Lebai Salam--the grave of an ancient
Saint--and here he bathed in a well hard by, dressed himself, and eat
half a tin of Messrs. Huntly and Palmer's 'gem' biscuits, which he had
brought with him. Having completed his toilet, he returned to Haji Mih's
house and cried out:

'Where are those my enemies, who engaged me in fight a little while
agone?'

It was now about 3 A.M., but the men were awake and heard him.

'Come quickly!' he shouted again, 'Come quickly, and let us finish this
little business with no needless delay.'

At this, ten men rushed out of Haji Mih's house, and began to throw
spears at him, but though they struck him more than once they did not
succeed in wounding him. He retreated backwards, and, in doing so, he
tripped over a root near a clump of bamboos and fell to the earth.
Seeing this, the men fancied that they had killed him, and fear fell
upon them, for he was a Chief, and they had no warrant from the Sultan.
Thereupon they fled, and To' Kaya once more gathered himself together
and returned to Lebai Salam's grave, where he finished the tin of 'gem'
biscuits.

At dawn he returned to Haji Mih's house. Here he halted to bandage his
wounds with the rags of cotton that had been bound about some rolls of
mats and pillows, which Haji Mih had removed from the house at the alarm
of fire. Then he shouted to the men within the house to come out and
fight with him anew, but no one came, and he laughed aloud and went on
down the road till he came to Tungku Pa's house. Tungku Pa and a man
named Semail were in the verandah, and when the alarm was raised that
To' Kaya was coming, Tungku Pa's wife rushed to the door, and bolted it
on the inside, while her husband yammered to be let in.

When To' Kaya saw him, he cried to him as he would have cried to an
equal:

'O Pa! I have waited for thee the long night through though thou earnest
not. I have much desired to fight with a man of rank. At last we have
met, and I shall have my desire.'

Semail at once made a bolt of it, but To' Kaya was too quick for him,
and as he leaped down, the spear took him through the body, and he died.
Then Tungku Pa stabbed down at To' Kaya from the verandah and struck him
in the groin, the spear head becoming bent in the muscles, so that it
could not be withdrawn.