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304 COCOA-NUT TREE. 



Dewyo, the ruler and creator of all gods and 

 demons, and of the flat world itself. 



Having summoned his immediate followers from 

 j;he various resting-places, which they had con- 

 structed with the branches and leaves of the 

 neighbouring trees, by way of temporary shelter, 

 the rajah repeated to them the prophetic words 

 of the divine messenger ; and, having gone 

 through the ceremony of making a propitiatory 

 offering under the Bogaha-tree, of fruits. Betel- 

 leaves, (Pipe7^-betel,) and flowers of sweet per- 

 fume, he, attended by his retinue, proceeded in 

 a direct course through rivers and forests, and 

 over mountains immense, to the southward, as 

 directed by the Maha Sudona. 



The one hundred hours' journey having been 

 miraculously performed without any perceptible 

 fatio-ue, either to himself or attendants, the 

 anxiously anticipated view of that boundless ex- 

 panse of blue water, which, in his dream, had 

 appeared to him so beautiful, yet nauseous to 

 the taste, and on its margin immense groves of 

 trees, with tufts of leaves, (for the first time 

 plainly perceived to be large branches,) as his 

 visions had foretold, gratified his astonished, but 

 delighted sight. Beneath the branches, shel- 

 tered from the vertical sun, hung large clusters 



