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fully across this a kind of entrance hall is encountered, par- 
tially divided off from the rest of the cave by a couple of ‘large 
stalactite pillars. Passing between these the main room of the 
cave is entered, which would be open along the whole of its 
outer side, were it not that it is partially shut in by pillars of 
similar kind. It is between two of these that access is gained 
to the cave by means of the Ava-tree roots. In about the 
centre of the large compartment is the Kéramat (holy place) 
*To’ Long from which the cave takes its name. This is made 
to represent a Malay grave, having batu nisan (grave-stones) 
and being boarded-in at the sides. 
do not know if there is any story current as to the 
personality of ’To‘ Long but all that I could find out about 
the origin of the Kévamat was, that a man was said to have 
come across a coffin (ktvanda) while digging in the floor of 
the cave; whereupon the local Malays jumped = a conclu- 
sion that a body buried far away from any villag 
must be that of some holy person, and the scetorth enseed 
the place sacred. 
Unfortunately the Kéramat, being in a central position, 
prevented my digging in a part o of the cave-floor which I 
should much like to have opened u 
Over the ‘‘grave’’ there hung a rattan cord, which was 
tied to the end ofa stalactite above. ‘To this, cfferings of ban- 
anas had, I believe, originally been attached, but several nests 
of some species of weaver-bird (burong t@mpua)—one new and 
containing two eggs—had been built on its lower end. The 
large compartment of the cave terminated in a small passage, 
which was light and partly open on its outer side. 
n examination of the floor of the Gua ’To‘ Long, espe- 
cially at a few places where water dripped down from the 
points of stalactites, disclosed some shells of fresh-water mol- 
lusks. Concluding from the presence of these that the cave 
had been inhabited and that the contents of the shells had 
been devoured by former cave-dwellers, I opened a portion 
of the floor of ee ‘fentrance hall’’ some twenty feet long by 
nine feet broad, and found that solid rock was encountered 
at a depth of from three to four feet, underlying powdery 
lime-impregnated soil, which contained many relics of the 
former occupants of the cave. 
Among the objects discovered were the teeth and bones 
of mammals, portions of the carapaces of fresh-water turtles 
and of tortoises ; three polished stone implements (two whole, 
one a fragment) : many flakes of fine-grained stone; shells of 
fresh-water mollusks; pieces of red pigment; grinding-stones 
for this paint, which had deeply stained them; rough pottery ; 
a few pieces of yellow and green glazed ware; and part of a 
human skeleton. 
From the fact that a large number of flakes occurred in 
_ the deposits—as many as four or five were often found in each 
