26 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [VoL. IX, 
The Poyang, as among other tribes, has a Familiar Spirit. 
My informant gave me the following names of Familiars kept 
by Poyangs whom he knew :—Bujang Bérawan (Youth Encir- 
cled by Clouds): Bujang P&langi (Rainbow Youth), Raniai 
Bunga (Chain of Flowers). Poyangs can get their Familiars 
either by inheritance or by their coming to them in dreams. 
I was told that the dead are buried lying face upwards 
and with their heads pointing to the west. A corpse is pro- 
tected by fixing seven stakes, which are afterwards covered 
over with tree-bark, slantwise across the body and just above 
it, the points of the stakes being driven into the wall of the 
grave on the left side. Food is placed on the grave on the 
day of burial, on the morning of the third day after, and 
again on the morning of the seventh day. 
A description of a Jakun grave-mound (with a sketch) 
has been already given by Hervey, and is quoted by Skeat,! 
but that which I got from the Jakun of the Anak Endau— 
I did not see a grave—may perhaps be of interest. I was told 
that a post about five feet high is set up at the foot of the 
grave. This post has fourteen notches cut in it, seven run- 
ning up one side, and seven down that opposite. ‘The post is 
called the tangga stmangat (soul-ladder), and I was given to 
understand that the seven ascending notches represent (?) the 
surviving relations, while the descending notches represent, 
or are for the use of, the dead man’s soul. Two posts called 
nisan (grave-posts) diverging at an angle of about forty-five 
degrees were, my informant said, set up close together on the 
top of the grave. This account differs in some particulars 
from that given by Hervey and from the details shown in his 
sketch. He calls the notched posts—of which he shows two— 
nisan, and the smaller posts, which according to my account 
should be misan, he dubs tangga stmangat. Probably differ- 
ence of locality may account for the discrepancies, though his 
notched posts might without much difficulty be taken to be 
conventional representations of double house-steps, while the 
small uprights are placed just like Malay grave-posts (misan). 
The three most important tribal officers among the 
Endau Jakun i in order of rank are the Batin, the Méntéri and 
the Ju’ kérah. ‘The Malay Penghulu of Pianggu said that on 
the Endau the Jénang *—an officer found among some Jakun 
tribes was always a Malay, who was invested by the Sultan 
with authority over the aborigines. 
| Pagan eet vol. II, pp. 114-115. The sketch is also reproduced. 
was told rather an Interesting story with regard to Jénang Login, 
the father of the iss esent Penghulu. When Logan—he is said to have come 
vovaonel so Ane las > hess in child-bed. The child, a bake was mc ee 
at the time of, rd Peserheed after, Logan’s arrival, ae was called Login 
honour of the ev 
