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sion of the game described I saw two with eight in 

 them. 



When one of the players has no stones left in his 

 holes he has lost. If stones are left on either side, but 

 not enough to proceed, then there is an impasse, and 

 the game must be played over again. 



OMA-SULINGS 

 (On the Mahakam River) 



To marry the daughter of a noble the man must pay 

 her father twenty to thirty gongs (each costing twenty 

 to forty florins). The price of the daughter of a pangawa 

 is from one to three gongs, and to obtain a wife from the 

 family of a pangin costs a parang, a knife, or some beads. 

 Women assist at childbirth, which takes place within 

 the room, near the door, but generally no blian is present. 



When a girl has her first menstruation a hen or a 

 pig is killed, and in the evening the blood thus obtained 

 is applied to the inside of a folded leaf which the blian 

 wafts down her arms — "throwing away illness," the meat 

 of the sacrifice being eaten as usual. The same treat- 

 ment is bestowed upon any one who desires good health. 



As many infants die, it is the custom to wait eight 

 or ten days after birth before naming a child, when a 

 similar sacrifice is made, and a leaf prepared in like manner 

 is passed down the arms of the infant by the blian. In 

 selecting a name he resorts to an omen, cutting two pieces 

 of a banana leaf into the shape of smaller leaves. Ac- 

 cording to the way these fall to the ground the matter 



