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rattans, or in search of rice and salt, others returning home 
from similar expeditions. 
The magician (Poyang) among the Rompin Jakun uses 
a switch of Palas leaves in calling his Familiar Spirit. Small 
tambourines made out of half a coconut-shell covered over 
with the skin of some kind of fish are beaten during the per- 
formance of these magical rites. 
I was told that the bodies of dead Poyangs are placed 
on platforms and that their spirits go up to the sky, while 
those of ordinary people, whose bodies are buried, go to the 
underworld. 
When a death occurs in a village, the houses and the 
clearing in which they stand are said to be deserted for from 
ten to fifteen days, the friends and relatives of the dead 
person being afraid of the ghost. house in which a death 
has taken place is usually not re-occupied. 
One of the Jakun whom I met on the Rompin told me 
that bodies of dead are buried lying on their backs with their 
heads pointing to the east. If this is correct, it is rather 
curious, as the Endau Jakun seem to bury their dead with 
their heads pointing to the west, which is, I believe, a much 
more usual position. 
Circumcision, the Jakun said, was not practised by them. 
The Endau Jakun. 
I visited two aboriginal settlements in the Endau Dis- 
trict, one being situated on a tributary of the Endau River, 
the Anak Endau, which debouches into it on the Pahang side 
not far from its mouth, the other close to Kuala Kumbar, 
which is also on the Pahang side of the river and some dis- 
tance above Pianggu village. The Jakun on the Anak Endau 
were fairly clean, both on their persons and houses, while 
those of Kuala Kumbar were horribly filthy, the decencies of 
life, with regard to sanitary matters, being absolutely neglected. 
The most interesting thing that I noticed in the Kuala Kum- 
by means of birdlime—and were taming, numbers of green 
paroquets (Palgornis longicauda). A few of these birds were 
houses of the poorer-class Malays of this part of Pahang 
I obtained the following details with regard to customs 
and beliefs from one of the Anak Endau Jakun. 
man on the birth of his first child (male or female) 
becomes known as ‘‘ Father of So-and-so.” If his first-born 
child dies he is called still ‘‘ Father of So-and-so,’’ provided 
