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From Fables & Folk-Tales from an Eastern Forest, Collected and Translated by Walter Skeat, M.A., Illustrated by F. H. Townsend; Cambridge: At the University Press; 1901; pp. 18-19, 78.

THE PELICAN’S PUNISHMENT.^a

UNDAN the Pelican being hungry told Rūan the Fish that his pool would shortly dry up, and offered to carry himself or any members of his family to another pool to see how they liked it.

To this Rūan agreed; and Undan carried him over to the pool and back again as stipulated, and the fish liking it informed all his relatives.

Then Undan carried the fish back again to the new pool and returned to fetch the rest of his family. But instead of putting them into the pool, Undan sat in a tree and ate the fish till his droppings reached to the lower branches.

By this time there were no more fish to be 19 eaten and Undan commenced in like manner to cheat the family of Kĕtam the Crab. But as soon as ever Kĕtam caught sight of the droppings he saw through the trick and pinched Undan’s neck so that he died.

[78] Notes.

^a  The Pelican’s Punishment.

This is a Malay version of one of the best-known of Æsop’s Fables. It was collected on the Tĕmbĕling river in Ulu Pahang.

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