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to have the second tusk too, he must pay the usual market 

 price for it. 



The finder or hunter gets in exchange for the first tusk a 

 set of new clothing (per-salin-ari). 



Ivory sells in Siak at different prices, according to the 

 different size of the tusks. If the pair weighs above one 

 pikul, the price is $250 per pikul ; where the weight is 

 about half a pikul for both tusks the price is $150 for the 

 pair; smaller tusks fetch $i perkatz. 



Every rhinoceros' horn found is considered the property of 

 the Sultan. The finder gets for it aper-solin-an. This article 

 is in great request by the natives as medicine, and is said 

 by them to be particularly efficacious in wounds and snake- 

 bites. 



Its value is on the average from $20 to $60. 



A great rarity is a white horn, for which Chinese will pay 

 as much as $100. 



The general opinion is that the difference between the 

 rhinoceros of Java and that of Sumatra consists in the former 

 having two horns and the latter one only. I am. however, 

 informed on good authority that rhinoceroses with two horns 

 are sometimes, though rarely, met with in Siak. 



Guliga,'* or Bezoar stone, is a stone found in the intestines 

 of certain animals — bears, monkeys, serpents, porcupines and 

 others. 



The guUga in Siak, which is considered to belong to the 

 larangan raja is an intestinal stone found in a kind of 

 porcupine living principally in the upper reaches of the Man- 

 dau. The Sakeis living in this region are the only persons 

 who collect these stones, which they deliver to the Sultan 

 partly as a revenue, partly as barang larangan. 



By right, all the guligas found by them are the Sultan's, 

 the greater number, however, are clandestinely sold to Malay 

 and Chinese traders. 



According to their size, they are worth from §40 to §600 a 

 piece. 



* See "On the Guliga of Borneo" in No. 4 of this Journal 

 56-5S.— 1\ K. 



