bird.

H Episode of guarding king's fruit-tree or bread-tree (Chile peppers).

J Episode of guarding king's belt (boa-constrictor).

K Turtle deceives monkey with his answers, so that the monkey thinks
part of his own body is mocking him. Enraged, he strikes himself with
a stone until he dies.

L Turtle captured by hunter gets monkey to exchange places with him
by pointing out the advantages of the situation. Monkey subsequently
shot by the hunter.

These incidents are distributed as follows:

Version (a) ABC1DE
Version (b) ABCHJK
Version (c) (Opening different, but monkey greedy as in B) L
Version (d) A1B2C1D1EF2F3G
Version (e) ABC1DEF1
Version (f) A1BC (glass on trunk of tree) EF (monkey in his rage
leaps after turtle and is drowned)
Version (g) AB1C1 (sharp shells) DEF (monkeys dive in to catch
fish when they see turtle appear with one in his mouth, and are
drowned). Incidents K and a form of J are found in the story of
"The Turtle and the Lizard" (Cole, 196)

The incidents common to most of these versions are some form of
ABCDEF; and these, I think, we must consider as integral parts of the
story. It will be seen that one of our versions (c) properly does not
belong to this cycle at all, except under a very broad definition of
the group. In all these tales the turtle is the injured creature:
he is represented as patient and quiet, but clever. The monkey is
depicted as selfish, mischievous, insolent, but stupid. In general,
although the versions differ in details, they are all the same story,
in that they tell how a monkey insults a turtle which has done him
no harm, and how he finally pays dearly for his insult.

The oldest account I know of, telling of the contests between
the monkey and the turtle, is a Buddhist birth-story, the
"Kacchapa-jataka," No. 273, which narrates how a monkey insulted a
tortoise by thrusting his penis down the sleeping tortoise's throat,
and how the monkey was punished. Although this particular obscene
jest is not found in any of our versions, I think that there is a
trace of it preserved in the Bagobo story. The passage runs thus
(loc. cit. pp. 59-60): "At that all the monkeys were angry [incident
D], and ran screaming to catch the tortoise. But the tortoise hid under
the felled trunk of an old palma brava tree. As each monkey passed
close by the trunk where the tortoise lay concealed, the tortoise said,
'Drag (or lower) your