Now prepare the bait. To do this you must kill a fowl (in the orthodox way), cut it partly open and insert the ladder-rung into its body, wrapping the flesh and feathers round it, and binding the whole bird seven times round and seven times across with a piece of rattan, not forgetting, however, to observe silence and hold your breath as you pass the first rattan lashing round the fowl's carcase. When you have finished binding it up as directed, chew some betel-leaf and eject (semborkan) the chewed leaf upon the fowl's head, repeating the appropriate charm. [505] Then hook the bait (sangkutkan umpan) on to the tip of the bent rod (on no account tie it on, as it must be left free for the crocodile to swallow), and having prepared the wonted accessories--including three chews of betel-leaf, a richek of ginger (halia bara sa-richek), and seven white pepper-corns (lada sulah tujoh biji)--breathe (jampikan) upon the betel-leaf, and at the end of the invocation eject the chewed betel-leaf upon the head of the cock intended for the bait. The charm to be recited (which makes allusion to the fable concerning the supposed origin of the crocodile) runs as follows:-- "Follow in procession, follow in succession, The 'Assembly-flower' begins to unfold its petals; Come in procession, come in succession, King Solomon's self comes to summon you. Ho, Si Jambu Rakai, I know your origin; Sugar-cane knots forty-four were your bones, Of clay was formed your body; Rootlets of the areca-palm were your arteries, Liquid sugar made your blood, A rotten mat your skin, And a mid-rib of the thatch-palm your tail, Prickles of the pandanus made your dorsal ridge, And pointed berembang suckers your teeth. [506] If you splash with your tail it shall break in two, If you strike downwards with your snout it shall break in two, If you crunch with your teeth they shall all be broken. Lo, Si Jambu Rakai, I bind (this fowl) with the sevenfold binding, And enwrap it with the sevenfold wrapping Which you shall never loosen or undo. Turn it over in your mouth before you swallow it. O, Si Jambu Rakai, accept this present from Her Highness Princess Rundok, from Java: [507] If you refuse to accept it, Within two days or three You shall be ... choked to death with blood, Choked to death by Her Highness Princess Rundok, from Java. But if you accept it, A reach up-stream or a reach down-stream, there do you await me; It is not my Word, it is King Solomon's Word; If you are carried down-stream see that you incline up-stream, If you are carried up-stream see that you incline down-stream, By virtue of the Saying of King Solomon, 'There is no god but God,'" etc.