347), and in two other North Borneo stories given by Evans (p. 474),
"Plandok and Bear" and "Plandok and Tiger." In Malayan stories in
general, the mouse-deer (plandok) is represented as the cleverest
of animals, taking the role of the rabbit in African tales, and of
the jackal in Hindoo. In the Ilocano story referred to, both these
incidents--"king's belt" and "king's bell"--are found, though the
rest of the tale belongs to the "Carancal" group (No. 3; see also
No. 4 [b]), Incident L is found among the Negroes of South Africa
(Honey, 84, where the two animals are a monkey and a jackal). With
incident G compare a Tibetan story (Ralston, No. XLII), where men
take counsel as to how to kill a troop of monkeys that are destroying
their corn. The plan is to cut down all the trees which stand about
the place, one Tinduka-tree only being allowed to remain. A hedge of
thorns is drawn about the open space, and the monkeys are to be killed
inside the enclosure when they climb the tree in search of food. The
monkeys escape, however; for another monkey goes and fires the village,
thus distracting the attention of the men. Incident D, the Thyestean
banquet, is widespread throughout European saga and Maerchen literature:
but even this incident Cosquin (I : xxxix) connects with India through
an Annamite tale. With incident F3 compare a story from British North
Borneo (Evans, 429-430), in which the adjutant-bird (lungun) and the
tortoise revenge themselves on monkeys. The monkeys pull out all of the
bird's feathers while it is asleep. In two months the feathers grow in
again, and the bird seeks vengeance. It gets the tortoise to help it
by placing its body in a large hole in the bottom of a boat, so that
the water will not leak in; the bird then sails the boat. The monkeys
want a ride, and the bird lets forty-one of them in. When the boat is
out in the ocean and begins to roll, the bird advises the monkeys to
tie their tails together two and two and sit on the edge of the boat
to steady it. Then the bird flies away, the tortoise drops out of the
hole, and the boat sinks. All the monkeys are drowned but the odd one.

TALE 56

THE MONKEY AND THE CROCODILE.

Tagalog Version.

Narrated by Engracio Abasola of Manila. He heard the story from
his nephew.

One day, while a clever monkey was searching for his food along the
river-bank, he saw a tall macopa-tree laden with ripe fruits. The
tree was standing just by the shore of a