Mark-Robertson

=Minangkabau=

This story does not specify where the story is set, merely that the Soth Sumatran empire were planning to attack Majapahits. So the actual setting is undisclosed. The main characters are: The councillors of South Sumatra, and a baby bull. The story tells of the South Sumatran war council disscussing what to do in an immenant attack on Majapahit, and decided to instead challenge them to a buffalofight to decide who would win the battle. The Majapahits accepted, and sent in an entire herd of large, powerful, strong buffalos. The South Sumatrans, however, sent one starving little calf with sharpened silver horns, and when it saw the biggest buffalo, it mistook it for it's own mother and ran straight undernath it looking for milk, and consequently killed it. The Majapahits admired the strategy, and announced the South Sumatrans winners of the battle. If there is a clear moral to this story, it must be the value of strategy. Unless the moral is to send starved buffalos into a battle and to expect victory... Now, for some reason I have to say what specific things identify this as an Indonesian story: Firstly, it mentions South Sumatra and Majapahit, which are Indonesian places. That seems to be all, as buffaloes don't really give much away to say what region it's from, it could be an South African story if buffaloes were mentioned only. And that seems to ba all I have to report on //Minangkabau//, Victorious Buffalo.