Many generation ago there lived in Sungei Rutus, which flows into the Igan river, a very powerful Milano chief named Tugau. He had no sons, but three daughters, or as many accounts say, adopted daughters. One of these three he married to the son of Kedahat, ruler of Oya, a man named Jiluan who lived with his wife in Tugau's house.
Thinking he would like a change of diet, Jiluan one day borrowed Tugau's golden-headed spear and went out into the jungle to hunt for pig. After searching for a very long he at last caught sight of a beautiful, sleek, white-skinned pig, and crept near to get a good stab at it. The weapon wounded the animal, but not very severely, and it went tearing away with the golden spear blade sticking in its side, leaving the snapped shaft behind. Jiluan followed the tracks for some time, but eventually got tired of it and returned to the house. When Tugau heard of the loss of his spear he was very angry and told Jiluan to go out next day in search of it and not return until it was found, so early on the next morning Juluan's wife got up and cooked 2 days provisions for her husband and sent him off on his quest.
He went to the spot at which he had left the pig's traces on the previous day and then climbed a tall tree to look round and see the lie of the land. While up there he heard the noise of people approaching and, looking down, saw two men walking along with a very sorrowful aspect. Jiluan called down and asked them what the matter was, and they answered that there was trouble in their village because the daughter of their Raja had been taken suddenly ill and nobody could cure her. "Who is your Raja"? asked Jiluan. "The Raja of pigs" (Raja baboi) said the men. Then Jiluan began to climb down the tree, and when he reached ground, he said, "If you will take me to your Rajah, I believe I can cure his daughter."
The two men then turned back along the path by which they had come, and conducted Jiluan to their village and into the presence of their Raja, who received him graciously and agreed to his attempting the cure of his daughter that same evening. Jiluan then stipulated that no one except himself should enter the room where the Raja's daughter lay ill until he had either failed or succeeded in curing her, and also that during that time nobody should approach the house from below. This being agreed to, he cleared the people out and went to examined the patient. The Raja's daughter turned out to be a very beautiful, fair-skinned girl, but when Jiluan came to examine her injuries he found Tugau's golden spear head sticking in her side. This he extracted, put in a hollow bamboo joint and three down below the house, after which, by his magic art, he closed and cured the wound it had made. Then he and the Raja's daughter began to talk together and she was so pleased with Jiluan that he easily persuaded her to run away with him (or as some versions have it, the Raja gave her to him) and became his second wife, although by the old custom only a single wife is allowed. They stole down the house and started off before dawn, Jiluan picking up the golden spear head as he went.
Now between the Raja's house and that of Tugau there were several streams to be forded, and when they reached the first the Raja's daughter seemed reluctant to cross it. However, she did at last, buton climbing the opposite bank Jiluan saw that her feet had turned to those of a pig. At the next sream they forded the lady became a pig as far as the knees, at the next to the waist, and so on, until just as they were getting near Tugau's house she turned to a pig altogether and ran off into the jungle and Jiluan, when he got home and told his story, was very soundly rated by his proper wife, Tugau's daughter, for his conduct in trying to marry the other lady.
Thus Jiluan tried to defy the old custom of his people and marry two wives, and by so doing brought no manner of good upon himself but only trouble, aqs any man must if he sets at naught the traditionary laws handed down from the people of long ago.
As a parallel to this story it is worth while comparing the fable of Laboh and the human elephants told in Skeat's "Malay Magi" pp 151, 152 and 153, Chap: V. In it the elephant-princess is wounded by a caltrop instead of a spear; Laboh marries and lives with her some time and they have children; and finally she is changed back into animal form while going back to Laboh's country with him by eating young tree-shoots with her rice, instead of contact with water while crossing rivers. (Contributed).
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