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August 7. Guests arc beginning to arrive for the festival in the 

 hope that it will be held at new moon; but there is not suffi- 

 cient dried fish, and other provisions are lacking. 



August 7 it seq. Textiles are polished with a shell. 



August 8. The guests from Digas go home, saying that they will 

 return in five nights. The Grinum is put off until the moon 

 reaches her half. At night there is an interview with anito. 

 Embroidery of festival garments is going on. and this work 

 continues until the very last day. 



August '.). At an anito interview, the Malaki t'Olu k'Waig speaks, 

 saying that the women are to pound rice continuously until 

 the Grinum. .Maying, (Hong's daughter, gently awakens the 

 other women, and they pound rice all night long. 



August 10. The sound of the pestle in the big mortar never 

 ceases all day, and we hear it all through the night. 



August 11. The women finish pounding the rice. In an interview 

 with the anito, Oleng is told that he has the korokung lsl 

 sickness, brought by the old woman at the mouth of the river. 

 Oleng begs the anito to carry his sickness to the Malaki t'Olu 

 k'Waig, who will strangle the sickness. 



August 12. Biaii nuts l85 for festival torches are Btrung on long 

 sections of nap-nap (a hue rattan). A shelf, called tagudn ha 

 sekkadu, for the water-flasks, is put up on the porch. The 

 roof of the Long House is being finished by the young men, 

 who bring great bundles of meadow-grass, five or six feet in 

 length. With much laughter and merriment, they toss the 

 bundles to other men on the roof, who. in turn, lay them 

 crosswise on the timbers, and make the thatch secure with long 

 strips of laya 18G wood, which they place on the grass-bundles 

 and bind down with rattan. Guests continue to arrive. 



August 13. Malik, son-in-law to Oleng, makes a capacious bed of 

 split bamboo for the use of guests. It is like a wide shelf 

 fastened to the east wall, at a height of three and three-fourths 

 feet from the floor. 



1 8!l Karokung i> an illness characterized bj cough, chills and fever. 



180 A small round nut, rich in oil. Bidu auts are reserved for ceremonial illumination, 



the house on ordinary occasions being lighted bj the luni, a torch of resin, wrapped 

 in leaves. 



1 •• A vaiict \ of bamboo. 



