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illustration, ornamented with the type of design already 
alluded to. 
The group of stones near the Chinese rubber plantation, 
when found, was in a Yery ruinous condition. The most 
important members of it are a long flake of granite, a squared 
block of laterite and a round stone, also of laterite. The 
granite flake had, as I was told by the local residents, 
originally stood upright between the two laterite stones and, 
when we discovered it, though fallen down one end was still 
resting between them. It appears that this monument, also, 
had been broken by a falling tree, but further damage had 
been done subsequently by a Chinese washerman who had 
broken off pieces from the upper end of the granite flake, and 
used them for supports for his cauldron. The Malays told 
me, with considerable glee, that the offender’s wife had died 
not long afterwards, and that the washerman himself had 
encountered other misfortunes—all of which they ascribed to 
his sacrilegious act—and finally ran away. At the time of 
my visit, however, a brother trades:namz had taken his place, 
and was still using the old stand for his cauldron. 
Having persuaded this man to move his pitch, we dis- 
covered several pieces of the granite monolith on the old site 
of his operations, but, unfortunately, several of them had 
become friable and lost their original edges owing to the 
constant heating which they had undergone. Nevetheless 
we were lucky enough to find the top ot the monolith and 
to be able to establish a join with the major portion. 
Partly below the squared laterite block, already men- 
tioned, is another seemingly undressed slab of the same 
material, the two blocks thus forming a couple of steps. 
The spherical laterite stone has a curious somewhat 
horseshoe-shaped object sculptured on it in relief; the convex 
side of the granite upright, too, appears to have had a similar 
design depicted upon it, but it is much weathered. These 
two objects are particularly interesting in view of the possible 
phallic origin of the Pédang. It is possible, moreover, that, 
judging by its shape, the granite upright of this small group 
may also be meant for a rude representation of phallus. 
Of the yet undescribed granite objects there remain only 
a few to be dealt with. ‘Three of these are loose and have 
no certain location, but I found them lying in front of the 
Mohamedan grave. What any of them represent it is extreme- 
ly difficult to say, though they have all three been shaped, 
and in the case of two a little carving has been added, on 
one in the shape of some notchings and a slight design of 
patterns, on the other notchings only. These details are well 
shown in the illustration (Pl. IX). 
I have already referred to a small granite monolith, which 
had been broken, but of which we found the base while ex- 
cavating the walk round the grave, which is bounded by the 
