ii8 PAGAN TRIBES OF BORNEO chap. 



called Bawang Daar^ the lake of blood. Sitting 

 before the tegulun he scans the space of sky framed 

 by the batang pra^ searching for some hawk upon 

 the wing. As soon as he sees a hawk within this 

 area, he addresses it, waving in one hand a small 

 frayed stick, and saying, " Put fat in the mouth of 

 So-and-So," and he puts a bit of pork fat into the 

 mouth of the tegulun. Then saying, "Send him to 

 Bawang Daar^' he immerses the tegulun in his pool 

 of reddened water ; and taking it out again he 

 thrusts into it a little wooden spear. After this he 

 buries the tegulun in a hole in the ground, covering 

 it with earth. (Only people who die by violence or 

 of some much-feared disease are normally buried in 

 this fashion.) This done he keeps shouting to the 

 hawk to go to the left, at the same time waving his 

 stick in that direction. If the hawk passes out of 

 the area of operations towards the right, he knows 

 that his attempt will not succeed, and he desists for 

 the time being ; if it flies out to the left he knows 

 that his arts will prevail, and he addresses the 

 hawk as follows : — 



** Bali Flaki tuai musit, ou matei iya kalunan ito 

 Tama Odoh (the name of the victim), tuju kau, Bali 

 Flaki, mieu tuor bawang daar au muloh usuky Bali 

 Flaki, mieu niak boin na alam ujun, pala uja matei 

 sagam ; matei daar kayu sagam ; matei suat ; m.atei 

 aioh sagam; matei many at alam. sungei ; matei 

 padam ; matei nakap bay a ; matei sakit ulun ; matei 

 sakit usokr (Translation runs — "O Bali Flaki, go 

 your way, let this man Tama Odoh die ; go and 

 put him in the lake of blood, O Bali Flaki ; stab 

 him in the chest, Bali Flaki, put fat of pig in his 

 mouth that he may die to-morrow (this is equivalent 

 to — let his head be taken ; for fat is always put in 

 the mouth of the head taken in battle) ; let him be 

 killed by a falling tree, to-morrow ; let him die from 



1 Cf. Bawang Daha, the lake of blood of the Kayan Hades, vol. ii., p. 40. 



