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Once, a young boy lived with his older brother and his wife. When the boy grew to manhood, his big brother started thinking badly about him, and the younger brother announced his intention to leave. He said he would clear a garden in the forest and live there.

But he only pretended to clear the garden. Instead, he cut one large tree and made a signal drum. He found that he could fit inside it along with some butchered pork, betel nuts and peppers, and a dog. With his supplies in the drum, he performed a song and dance for rain and wind, putting his nose in a crab's hole as he danced. He returned to lay inside his drum, and a heavy rain began. Water ran out of the crab's hole, flooded the place, and carried the signal drum to the Bilap River. It landed in a big bay.

The drum was found by women fishing. One of them, who had sat on the drum and felt something, waited for the other women to leave, went to look closer, and found the handsome man inside. They married. The woman's baby was a ghost fish. When she beat the signal drum, the man's brother heard it, recognized it as from his brother, and followed its sound to the place where his little brother was.

Slone, 2001, 2: 523-524.