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of Sawahs. They are conical shaped buildings of wood, raised on 

 wooden pillars, with ornaments of the same material, like the wings 

 of birds at the eight corners of the two roofs, that cover the building 

 like the " flies" of a tent, to which in shape they bear some resem- 

 blance ; the inner part consists of one spacious room, kept extremely 

 clean, with a wooden Mimbar or pulpit at one end. 



The Taboh or drum is generally placed in a small building erected 

 for the purpose close to the mosque. It is a long hollow cone of 

 wood, over the wide aperture of which is stretched the strong hide of 

 a buffalo. Before the time appointed for meeting at public prayers, it 

 is beat by the Panghulu Momkim, to give the inhabitants of the sur- 

 rounding Campongs notice. 



There are no minarets to the mosques in Naning. The only one 

 that I have seen in the peninsula is that of the Malayan mosque at 

 Malacca : on the top of this is a gong, which is struck instead of the 

 drum. The graves that are found near the mosques in Naning, are 

 generally those of rich or religious men ; poor men being generally 

 buried at a distance. 



At the mosques of Bukit Tootoo, near Alor Gajah, are the tombs of 

 the late Raja Muda of Rumbowe, Rajah Assil, who was driven from 

 his dominion by Rajah Ali, and that of Anja the predecessor of the 

 ex-Panghulu of Naning. 



A Mukim must consist of 44 houses, the Khatbah cannot be read 

 in the mosque until the number be complete. 



There are many tombs of men famed for piety interspersed 

 throughout the country, in whose name the people of Naning make 

 vow3 for the prosperous termination of any object, and go to their 

 tombs to make oblations, &c. They call such tombs Kramets i^,y> J yi 

 There is no particular day as in India, in which they conjugate to per- 

 form the ,jtfji " Urs*" or pilgrimage. 



The most sacred tombs or Keramet i^.x>L£ in Naning are those at 

 Kala Kattee, Pace Dalum, and Bukit Paion, near Tabo ; also those of 

 Khateeb Batani at Londoo, of Dattu Dalon at Sabang, and those at 

 Lubi Koppong and Kalama. 



Those mentioned before at Bukit Tootoo of the expelled Rajah 

 Muda of Rumbowe, and Anja, the predecessor of the ex-Panghulu of 

 Naning, will, when hallowed by time, become " Kramet," which literally 

 signifies " revered," " venerable," a " miracle ;" but it is a term given 

 generally by Malays to the burial places of the early Arabian zealots, 

 who first preached the doctrines of Muhammed on the Malay peninsula. 



* At Malacca there is aa annual /wJ Urs to the tomb of Wall Ismail, or 

 Pulo Besar. 



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