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It was on the two or three days following that I noticed the many 
mounds and the vaults to the north, the fire still burning, the vault 
had another large tree stump growing over it, and this is now lying t 
one side, the ones over the co о be removed to obtain clear 
sights for the trigonometrical work I was engaged on, and as this could 
not ke delayed I had to extinguish the fires on the 8th, leaving a 
considerable pateh of peat and dead leaves that may still be covering 
something of interest. 
I had many native visitors during the time I remained on Jerai, 
but could get no information, their grandparents, so they said, having 
had no knowledge of it. Haji Maolim, the Guru of Yen, thought it 
was a place for the exercise of religious ceremonies, and that а gee 
an passage might exist from the well in the court to some о ing 
ne down the side of the mountain; but this is not so, as hard bottom 
was struck in clearing out the well. 
Otbers thought it was a Siamese crematory, as the bricks were 
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unknown in their part and must have come from over sea, but o o 
Siamese coming up I had questions put to them as to de 
custom was to place the corpse in a hole and cover it up t being 
consumed but this they said was not so, the body being di dbi tanah ; 
во this failed to explain the well. 
I was told that in sailing for Acheen, as soon as Jerai was lost to 
sight, a mountain in Acheen came into view, and perhaps in olden times 
beacon fires may have been burned here, but these places would cer- 
tainly not have been made for this purpose alone. 
Another said he thought the top of the hill had been stockaded 
during some former war, and in such a case the wells may have been 
people might have been or where they could have got the bricks 
remains a mystery; still I am inclined to think that this theory may be 
worth investigating, and if some idea of the age of the occupation can 
obtained from the trees some interesting historical events may be 
raven 
a Saman, of Yen, quite seriously said that it was the work of 
the Gergasi, which he explained were creatures having the a ee 
of mankind but still not of them, being also devourers of hum 
beings, in fact the ogre of fairy tales, but of these none had ben 
known to exist for the last 200 years. Ihave no doubt this is accepted 
by all the Malays as the true expleta bn but others were afraid to tell 
me во for fear of being laughed a 
Other stories which I was told тө reference to the mountain, but 
no qucm with the ruins. One was that Gun i e is а gem 
and was once joined both in еба um and matrimony to 
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Perak, a male, but for some n did not Pestis the latter mre 
the former to its present positio: 
Another, in connection with the Padang Taseh, the lower camping 
place. This was given by a Raja Ibrahim to Haji Taseh as a hermi- 
tage and the holy man lived in seclusion there, afterwards it was taken 
‚ by Chinese for mining but they failed, then a Malay took another 
, also for mining purposes, but kept ‘his whereabouts and doings 
