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woman, or put oilon their hair; moreover during the whole time 
he is occupied in camphor-seeking, the Pénghulu Kapor, whe- 
ther in the jungle, or at home in his village, must not tell a 
lie, steal ‘‘ even a cent,’’ or have intercourse with a woman. 
It is regarded as an offence if one of the ‘* Sakai ’”’ sleeps on 
after the Pénghulu and his companions are astir, and he is 
forced to drink a little of the Pénghulu’s urine, or some 
water in which chillies have been pounded up. 
The Pénghulu relies upon his dreams to afford him an 
indication of whether the search will prove lucky or the 
reverse, while should he, before starting on a camphotr-search, 
consider his dreams unfavourable, he will! defer the expedition 
till he is satisfied that it will have a lucky outcome. 
According to a legend there were originally seven 
Pénghulu Kapor, each of whom employed a different method 
of ascertaining whether a tree contained camphor, and spoke 
a slightly different Bahasa K apor. Nowadays all the Pénghulu 
Kapor, I was told, test a tree by smelling a chip of its wood, 
but it is said that differences in the tabu language of certain 
Pénghulu are due to this seven-fold origin. 
According to one account the seven P&nchulu who were 
brothers, were named as: follows, Penghulu Chium, who tried 
a tree by smelling it; Penghulu Sulor, who, I understand, 
inspected the trees with a torch: Penghulu Buboh, who looked 
or round lumps of camphor (buboh), exuding from a tree; 
Penghulu Puar who looked for small slits in the bark (puar), 
which contained camphor ; Penghulu Kepang, who cut notches 
in the trees and smelt them; Penghulu Pandang, who kn 
at sight whether a tree contained camphor, and the Penghulu 
Bongsu, the youngest brother. 
Another version has it that the seven were named 
Penghulu Jangkar, Penghulu Batang, Penghulu Dahan, 
Penghulu Ranting, Penghulu Daun, Penghulu Tunggul and 
Penghulu Jala. Penghulu Jangkar tried a tree by smelling 
its roots (jangkar in the tabu language) ; Penghulu Dahan the 
branches; Penghulu Ranting the twigs, Penghulu Daun the 
leaves, Penghulu Tunggul the base of the tree, while Penghulu 
Jala caught the tree in a casting-net (jala) if it fell intoa 
Tiver. 
I give below a story about these seven men which was 
told to me by Pénghulu Kapor, Dolah bin Mapak. ‘The first 
list of the names is his. 
