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Tlie writer is rather doubtful about the Ijok ordinaiy and tabu 

 words for elcpliant. With regard to the " baling " and " kemun," 

 they are both given by Skeat * as words for tiger used by various 

 Negrito tribes. The Lenggong Semang from whom the writer got 

 his information gave "baling" as the word ordinarily in use and 

 «' kemun " as its tabu equivalent : it will be noticed, however, that in 

 sentences given below (page 186) the woi'd used for tiger is 

 the " kemun." 



LOVE CHAEMS. 



A specimen of the so-called Chenduai flower (Salomonia aphylla) 

 was bought from a Semang. The Chenduai is in great repute among 

 the Malays as a love charm. 



A CUSTOM RELATING TO DEATHS. 

 An encampment must always be deserted after the death of a 

 member of the tribe. 



FACE PAINTING AND NOSE PIERCING. 



One young woman had stained her forehead with a broad 

 horizontal band of red pigment. At the corners of her mouth were 

 two smears of lime, Avhich looked at a distance like tusks protruding 

 from the top jaw. 



Many of the men and women, especially those of some age, had 

 the septum of the nose pierced to contain a nose-stick, thougli none 

 of these were seen in use. The Semang showed the writer a 

 .specimen, made from a procupine quill. 



PATTERNS ON DART QUIVERS AND COMBS. 

 General information concerning the patterns employed to decorate 

 combs and quivers was very little different from that obtained at 

 Lenggong. Certain facts, however, came out in the course of 

 conver.sation with the aborigines, which seem to throw some light on 

 the assertions made by Vaughan Stevens with regard to the meaning 

 and use of Semang comb-patterns. He tells us that the largest and 

 central panel of the Semang comb is called tin-weg and says that 

 the pattern of this panel represents the disease against Avhich it 

 is supposed to protect its wearer (vide Skeat and Blagden's Pagan 

 Races, p. 433). In the course of putting .some questions to the Ijok 

 people regarding the names of the patterns used on their quivei's the 

 writer was told that one of their designs was called temvug. When 

 questioned as to the meaning of the word, they replied that it meant 

 anything crossed, and pointed as an example to the trellis work 

 railings of the rest-house steps on which thej^ were -sitting. In 

 order to make certain that they were understood, they further 

 volunteered the information that two cords of bead worn diagonally 



* Skeat's Pagan Races, Vol. II, Comparative Vocabulary. 



