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6a. Lei'.k tebul (" kelulut meat")- This name de- 

 notes the fondness of the bear for robbing 

 the nest^ of bees, especially of a small kind 

 which the .Malays call kelulut. 

 7.1. Leuk chenor or Leak pachor (" thorny meat "). 

 Refers, of course, to the porcupines spines. 

 8a. Leuk teh "earth meat" Refers to the wild 

 pig's habit of routing up the soil in quest of 

 edible roots, etc. 

 ga. Leuk senyup (."dark meat"). Refers to the 

 Benturong's nocturnal habits. The second 

 name. Leuk bakok, seems to have the same 

 meaning. 

 10a. Leuk danum. I could get no proper translation 

 mum, but it seems to refer to the habit 

 of individuals of this species of sleeping to- 

 gether in companie«durmg moonlight night i 

 — like fowls in a fowl-house, as the Sakai said. 

 11a. Leuk iot meat "), the name being 



given owing to Bamboo-rats making their 

 • holes in the Ixises of clumps of bamboos. 

 ha. 'water meat"). The soft-turtles 



live in ponds and rivers. 

 13a. Leuk gersuk (" stone meat "), because this spe- 

 cies of tortoise may easily be mistaken for a 

 stone if seen from a little distance. 

 14a. Leuk hok (" cocoanut-shell meat"), because 

 the carapace looks like a cocoanut-shell. 

 The calling of any of these animals by their ordinary 

 names while their flesh is being eaten will cause the offender 

 to suffer from colic. I fancy, however, that the observance of 

 these customs i- becoming somewhat neglected by the Scnoi 

 of the Behrang Valley. 



Another belief with regard to food is that a man whose 

 food is played with by someone else will suffer from colic 

 [vide belief with regard to the Batch Busud. infra, p. 21 4). 



Ratil told me that, among the Sakai of the Slim Valley 

 w imen and children did not eat the heads of Berok ami Kera 

 monkeys (Maca d \1 onolgus), because 



of the sabat* which resides above the eyes in these animals. 

 Infraction of this rule, it was thought, would cube them to 

 suffer from violent pains in the head, which might even be a 

 cause of death. The custom is not observed on the Behrang 

 River. 



It is not allowable to cook turmeric with pig's flesh; the 

 breaking of this rule will entail the transgressors falling ill with 

 jaundice and fever. 



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