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named the Balam Bacham, which spans asea. Mampes, the 
guardian of the Balam Bacham, is like a gigantic Negrito ; he 
walks with great speed, and eats the burial offerings (penitok), 
which are placed in the graves for the spirits of the dead to 
carry with them on their last journey. When the souls of 
Maptk-tree, where they meet those of people who have died 
previously. They cannot wear the flowers of this tree until 
they have had all the bones of their limbs broken by the 
companions who have preceded them, and have had their eyes 
turned back in thei: heads, so that the pupils face inwards. 
When this has been done, they become real ghosts (kemoit) 
and are entitled to pluck the flowers of the Maprk-tree, and to 
eat its fruits; for it bears everything desirable, one branch 
beautiful flowers, another rice, a third durians, a fourth rambu- 
tan-fruits, and so on; furthermore at the base of its trunk are 
numbers of breasts from which flow milk, and to these the 
ghosts of little children set their lips. 
The spirits of the wicked, however, are set apart in 
another place, which is in sight of the abode of the good. 
They call to the spirits in Belet to help them to reach the 
Maprk-tree, but the latter take no notice. 
ove account was given to me by Tokeh. I tried 
to learn something from the Negritos of Grik with regard to 
the abode of the dead, but they either have very few beliefs 
concerning an existence after death, or would not tell me 
about them, All the information that I could obtain was 
that the souls of the dead went to the west, but whether 
their state was happy, or the reverse, they said that they did 
not know. 
The Shaman. 
The name for the Shaman among the Negritos of the Ulu 
Selama region is halak, a term which is in general use also 
among the Sakai. Tokeh said that there were no halaks in 
the settlement near the Damak River, but a local Malay told 
me subsequently that Tokeh was one himself. Whether what 
the Malay said was true or not, I do not know, but Tokeh 
got up a magical performance for me, in which he took no 
active part, to show me how such things were conducted. A 
little ‘ medicine-hut ”’ (panoh)* was built by planting the 
petioles of a number of palm-leaves in a circle of holes which 
had been previously made with a pointed stick. The panoh 
was supported by a slight wooden prop, which was driven 
into the earth so as to lean at the same angle as the walls ss 
ae Belet a to lie rather in the west-north-west, or in the north-west, 
rather than due west. C/., perme, etn cr ene Mohamedans. 
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