I. H. N. Evans: Malay Sous. tig 



Waterfall, and, after this, partake i if a curry feast. 

 The washing of the body should be done with 

 seven dippers of water in which limes ami soap 



n mixed till the water 

 is full of suds. When the bathing is over the 

 remains of the sintok and the limes are thrown 

 h h thrower saying, "Satu, dua,tiga buang!" 

 (i.e. "one, two, three, throw them away!"). The 

 •' soap " is, of course, washed off afterwards in the 

 ordinary way. Before the feast commences a 

 handful of food-all the kinds to be eaten being 

 included is taken and placed below a tree in the 

 jungle. The bona is performed only by Penang 

 and Province Wellesley Malays, and is said to 

 have originally been adopted from Indian Troops 

 stationed in Penang. | Information obtained from 

 Awang, a Province Wellesley Malay). 



The root or fibre of Ciniiamomuin seiitu (?) 



