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activities come to a halt. Every gimokud plucks one of the broad 

 leaves of a plant called baguidn, and twists it into a vessel sug- 

 gesting the form of a boat, of a like pattern to the ceremonial 

 dishes of hemp-leaf in use at Bagobo festivals, and called by the 

 same name, kin&dok. Each one of the gimokud seats himself upon 

 his individual leaf-vessel, and there sits, waiting, until the hot rays 

 of the sun cause him to dissolve, leaving the leaf-vessel full of 

 water. Not until our day begins, and darkness spreads over the 

 land of the dead, does the life of the ghosts swing back into action ; 

 but as soon as the sun has passed up above the earth every gimo- 

 kud resumes his personality, and takes up his work or his dance or 

 his feasting, apparently as if no break had occurred. Then, again, 

 the next morning, he makes a new leaf-vessel for himself from a 

 fresh leaf (the old one having withered dry), sits down on it, and 

 once more melts away under the sun's heat. This conception of a 

 periodically interrupted existence would seem to imply that during 

 twelve hours out of the twenty-four Kilut is empty of inhabitants, 

 but it is questionable whether the Bagobo has ever made that gener- 

 alization. 



Fresh accretions are being added by individuals, from time to 

 time, to the myths concerning the legendary homo of the dead, 

 though always along those lines that accepted tradition has drawn 

 out. Dreams of the One Country, as well as phantasies incident 

 to sickness and delirium, reveal fresh features that are deftly in- 

 corporated with the old. "My uncle," said a young girl, Igula, 

 "was very sick, and he went down to Gimokudan. A man there 

 asked him to stay, but he did not like to stay ; he wanted to come 

 back to earth. They have cinnamon down there — much cinna- 

 mon — and the streets are made of good boards; there is plenty 

 of white stone too. My uncle told us about it when he came back." 

 Topography of the one country. The subdivisions of Gimokudan 

 are correlated, first, with age, and second, with the manner 

 of death. The primary grouping consists in a segregation of 

 young children from adults. A part of the country through 

 which the Black River runs is set apart specially for nursing in- 

 fants. As narrated in an ancient tale, one of Lumabat's sisters 

 descended into the lower world, took the name of Mebuyan, and 

 became chief of a special section of Gimokudan, which is named 

 for her, lUuiitu Mcbin/an. Little children who die when they are 

 still being nourished at their mothers' breasts (a long period with 



