Some of them took a number of pet monkeys, dogs and cats and fish guided these animals to dance to the rhythm of the gongs

    At a place near the village of Patau in Tambunan there is a swamp which i supposed to be on the spot where a longhouse once stood, was in fact a village.  There is a tree in the middle of the swamp which once bore different kinds of fruits, like bananas, pomeloes and cucumbers.  The natives are afraid to go near the swamp as they believe that there are devils dwelling there.

    The story goes that one evening there was a big feast in the longhouse and everyone drank and ate to his heart's delight. To make the occasion more merry, the people danced to the beat of the gongs, but when they became tired and drunk they continued their amusement in a different way.  Some of them took a number of pet monkeys, dogs and cats and fish guided these animals to dance to the rhythm of the gongs.  Not one could refrain from laughing at the most ridiculous spectacle.

    The animals went on dancing, standing on their hind limbs, and meeting the others animals, even when the people had stopped guiding them.  The gongs also stopped because the men could not beat them for laughing.  Superstition has it that the devil took hold of the animals and made them behave like that.

    Now there as a man among the villagers who had gone to sleep under a window when he became drunk, and so he did not take part in the folly.  Suddenly he was awakened by a voice calling him.  He opened his eyes, and saw, against the darkening sky, the most frightening sight of the devil of destruction.  It had huge eyes and ears and was looking at the longhouse and over shadowing it with outstretched hands.  It did not speak to the man, but he instinctively knew that the longhouse was going to be destroyed.

    Shaking with fear, he got up and told the others what he had seen and that it was a sign of destruction.  Nobody believed him.  They called him mad and went on laughing.  Seeing that he could not convince them, he dragged his wife from among them forced her to flee with him.  Even as the couple got out from the longhouse it began to rain heavily and the longhouse slowly sank into the ground, and disappeared under the rain water that filled the hole.  The filling in with soil through the years resulted in the present swamp.

    The couple, it was said, fled to place now called Patau and they became the ancestors of the people of that village.