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ever the Dato’ of the Keramat' has granted their requests; 
the latter firing crackers, making offerings of fowls—sub- 
sequently taken away for consumption at home—and of 
spirituous liquors, of which the Mohamedan Dato’ surely 
cannot approve, and being only restrained from offering pork 
by the interdiction of the local Malays; furthermore they 
defile the monument by burning candles, joss-sticks and 
“‘ paper money ’’—the variety with which the Chinese placate 
spirits and the ghosts of the departed—in every available 
crack and crevice. The grave has been protected for many 
years by a palm-leaf roof. 
To return however to the granite monoliths: the main 
group of these consists of three uprights? with three dressed 
blocks of laterite*® placed on the ground in front of them. 
The uprights have been given fanciful names by the Malays : 
one, a long, tapering, sculptured flake of granite is said to be 
the sword (Pédang) or Kéris of the Saint of the Kéramat, the 
second his spoon (Sudu), and the third the rudder (K&mudt) 
of the ship in which he arrived in the country. In addition 
to these there is also a large turtle-back of granite * lying rather 
to one side, and two smaller granite uprights (Nos. 103 & 104, 
a 
dressed. The Sudu was accidentally broken into two pieces 
some years ago by a falling tree (Nos. 93 and ror in plan). I 
was able however'to make a fairly good restoration of the 
stone. The same cause, too, was probably responsible for 
the fracture of a small granite monolith which originally 
stood within the outermost course of stones surrounding the 
grave. The base of this was discovered buried in its original 
position,’ and the larger portion of the stone has now been 
joined to it and erected as it originally stood. 
The turtle-back (102), to which I have referred above, 
was found lying, flat side up, as shown in the plan, but I 
turned it over and had it placed as nearly as possible in the 
position in which it had formerly been, to one side of, and 
rather behind the Kémudi (94), as shown in a photograph 
taken some year previous to my visit. 
The blocks forming the platform in front of the three 
main uprights are all of laterite, and number three, not four, 
asin the plan The inaccuracy is due to the fact that one of 
them (100) had been much broken, and looked, in the state 
in which it was found, as if it was really two distinct blocks. 
Mr. Wallace indicated, however, that he was not sure of the 
number and form of the blocks of part of the platform by means 
of dotted lines. The shapes of several of the stones comprising 
! Spirit of the sacred place. 
? Nos. 92, tor, & 93, 94, in Mr. Wallace’s plan No. 3, postea. 
* Nos. 98, 99, 100 in plan. 
* No. 102. 
* Close to No. 144, also a granite monolith. 
