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reduction in the debt, which must be raised and paid 

 without deduction. Long credit is then given for the 

 remainder of the jujur. " Sometimes it remains 

 unadjusted to the second and third generation ; and 

 it is not uncommon to see a man suing for theju/urof 

 the sister of his grandfather. These debts constitute, in 

 fact, the chief part of their substance ; and a person is 

 esteemed rich who has several of them due to him for 

 his daughters sisters aunts and great aunts. Debts 

 of this nature are looked upon as sacred, and are 

 scarcely ever lost. In Passummah, if the race of a 

 man is extinct, and some of these remain unpaid, the 

 dusun or village to which the family belonged must 

 make it good to the creditor ; but this is not insisted 

 upon amongst the Rejangs." Sometimes instead of 

 paying a jujur an exchange is effected, by which one 

 maiden is given for another. 



In ambel-anak, on the other hand, " the father of a 

 virgin makes choice of some young man for her 

 husband, generally from an inferior family which 

 renounces all further right to or interest in him, and 

 he is taken into the house of his father-in-law, who 

 kills a buffalo on the occasion and receives twenty 

 dollars from the son's relations. After this the buruk 

 baitinia (the good and bad of him) is vested in the 

 wife's family. If he murders or robs, they pay the 

 bangun, or the fine. If he is murdered, they receive 

 the bangun. They are liable to any debts he may 

 contract after marriage ; those prior to it remaining 

 with his parents. He lives in the family, in a state 

 between that of a son and a debtor. He partakes as a 

 son of what the house affords, but has no property in 

 himself. His rice-plantation, the produce of his 



