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There was also a tall, ornamental stand resembling a 

 candelabrum, made of wood and decorated with a pro- 

 fusion of long, slightly twisted strips of leaves from the 

 sugar-palm, which hung down to the floor. From here 

 nine men returned to our last camping-place, where they 

 had left a similar feast in order to serve me. The har- 

 vest-festival is called bluput, which means that the people 

 fulfil their promise to antoh. It lasts from five to seven 

 days, and consists mostly of dancing at night. Neigh- 

 bouring kampongs are invited and the guests are given 

 boiled rice, and sometimes babi, also young bamboo 

 shoots, which are in great favour and are eaten as a sayur. 

 When the harvest is poor, no feast is made. 



The balei was very stuffy, and little light or air could 

 enter, so I continued my journey, arriving later in the 

 afternoon at Beringan, where a tiny, but clean, pasang- 

 grahan awaited us. It consisted mainly of four small 

 bamboo stalls, in which there was room for all of us to 

 sleep, but the confined air produced a disagreeable con- 

 gestion in my head the next day. We now had to send 

 for men to Lok Besar, which was our ultimate goal, and 

 the following day we arrived there, passing through a 

 country somewhat more hilly than hitherto. I put up 

 my tent under some bananas, and felt comfortable to be 

 by myself again, instead of sleeping in crowded pasang- 

 grahans. There was not even such accommodation here, 

 but the kapala put most of his little house at our 

 disposal, reserving only a small room and the kitchen 

 for himself and family. The boiling-point thermometer 

 showed an elevation of 270 metres. 



