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The function at this first place of prayer now complete, we 

 returned to the house; and while Singan and Ikde waited on the 

 little porch the rest of* us walked under the house, from front to 

 back, and on down a very narrow footpath that ran for a few 

 feet to the southeast, ending at a little thicket. Here, almost 

 hidden in a natural growth of luago shrubbery, stood a buso-house 

 (buis), and here we halted. Miyanda had brought from the house 

 two more of the leaf-dishes, and one of them, which contained four 

 areca-nuts, she set on the ground under the shrine, for the Huso 

 of the Ground, with these words: "This kiniidok is for you, Tig- 

 banua Tana." Then, placing the other leaf-vessel which held eight 

 areca-nuts on the floor of the little house, she said: "To you, Tig- 

 banua ka Buis, 180 I give these areca-nuts, and I ask you to keep 

 us in good health all of the time." 



Having returned to the porch by the same way we had followed 

 on leaving, we stopped a moment for Miyanda to pick up two 

 more of the leaf-dishes. Then, while the other women waited 

 there at the house door, Miyanda, followed by myself, took her 

 way to another buso-house that had been set up north of the Long 

 House, at a distance from it of about twenty feet. Around the 

 shrine had been placed thick-leaved branches of luago, kalimping 

 and terinagum, all of which were set rather deep in the earth, 

 so that they stood erect like a natural growth of bushes close 

 to the little temple. On the ground below the shrine. Miyanda 

 laid a leaf-vessel containing one areca-nut and one betel-leaf, and 

 on the floor of the little house she put the other leaf-vessel, thai 

 had in it one betel-leaf and eight areca-nuts. At the same time, 

 she said to the Tigbanua of this buis a few words to the same 

 effect as those uttered at the preceding devotions. 



Thereupon, the other three old women Singan. Ikde and Stige 

 came down the short ladder from the stoop, and brought with 

 them the nine leaf-dishes that remained of the original twenty-three. 

 They followed Miyanda and myself along a path that opened north- 

 west from the last-mentioned hnt-shrine. and led toward the houses 

 of the two data, Oleng and [do. When we had reached a point 

 about 108 feet '"" distant from the Long House, the women squatted 

 down as before. ;iikI placed the nine leaf-dishes in order on the 



1 B9 Buso of the Shrine. 



'"" 05 i>nrcs of 20 inches each. 



