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to niake a safe entrance and escape—he leaves by another 
way—he is allowed to choose one of the female Chinoi who 
live in the snake for himself. 
The Stone which supports the Heavens. 
I have mentioned previously that the top part of this 
stone is said to be loose, and balanced on the lower portion at 
an angle. ‘This loose piece of the Batu Herem is called Lam- 
bong.! Yak Kalcheng, Yak Manoid and Yak Lepeh guard 
the roots of the Batu Herem beneath the earth. 
e Chinoi are said to play in the dark region called Ligoz 
which surrounds the Lambong. 
The Rainbow: Rain. 
n my former paper the name of the rainbow snake, 
or rather snakes, for there are two of them, was incorrectly 
spelt Hwiak instead of Huyak. 
Rain, according to the Kintak Bong, i is caused by a stone 
flower called Jampun which grows inthesky. There is water 
in the flower, and, when it turns downwards, the water falls 
from it asrain: whenit turns upwards the weather is dry. 
Chinoi, Liren, guards the flower 
The abode of the Dead and their Journey to it. 
I have mentioned in my previous paper the bridge 
over which the souls of the dead pass to Belet. The name of 
this bridge should be corrected, it is Balan Bacham, not 
Balam Bacham. Bacham is, my informant told me, a fern 
which the Malays call paku ular (Blechnum orientale).* This 
plant grows at the further end of the bridge and with it the 
ghosts wreathe their heads before entering Belet. 
A female Chinoi, called Chinoi Sagar, lives at the Belet 
end of the bridge, and wreathes her head with the Bacham 
plant. When the sun rises the bridge lies true, but when it 
falls, the end of the bridge on which the Chinoi Sagar lives is 
raised. 
Burial Customs. 
According to my Kintak Bong informant, Mémpélam, the 
ghosts of the newly dead, before they undertake the journey 
to Belet, are sometimes heard near the new camp to which the 
survivors have moved. They say, ‘‘ Yah, Yah, Yah,’’ and 
‘© Yebok, Yebok, Yebok.’’ When they say, ‘“‘ Yah, Yah, 
Yah,’’ they mean that they are going away, and when they 
say, “‘ Yebok, Yebok, Yebok,’’ they want water. 
Tokeh tells ae (1921) that Tapern -_ Bajiaig goevery morning to see 
the Chino pe an d fight above the Lam bong. 
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