Note 1 — Chapter II · Man and his Place in the Universe
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“The Raja of the Bamboo.—Some years ago I collected a number of legends current among Malayan tribes having as their principal incident the supernatural development of a prince, princess, or demi-god in the stem of a bamboo, or tree, or the interior of some closed receptacle.1 I omitted, however, to mention that this very characteristic Malay myth occurs in the “Sri Rama,” a Malay prose hikayat,2 which, as its name betokens, professes to describe the adventures of the hero of the Râmâyana.