6 cents. 



25 .1 



2 „ 



1 ^ 2 }} 



5° >i 



OCCASIONAL NOTES. 357 



S'p4rak = 



S'suku = 



S'wang = 



S'kupang = 



S'omeh (mas) = 



Orneh dua puloh = § 7.00 



20 mra*^ = 10.00 



Dua puloh s repi = 7.00 



/?//« £/tf.y s'repi = 4.00 



A man who marries a virgin must pay 20 s'repi or §7.00 

 into the hands of the Ibu-Bapa or elders of her .9?/^//. 



A man who marries a widow must pay 12 s'repi ox §4.00. 



A man who abducts a widow must pay 4 //Xv/ s'repi or 

 $9.30, for a virgin the tine is 4cS s'repi or 818.30. 



R. N. B. 



THE PRINCE, OR PRINCESS, OF THE BAMBOO. 



In Part I of Vol. XIX (N. S.) of the Journal of the Royal 

 Asiatic Society (January, 1887), there is a translation of a 

 Japanese romance which contains a feature common in 

 Malay romances and legends. The Japanese story of the 

 Old Bamboo-hewer, translated by Mr. DlCKlNS, opens as 

 follow T s : — 



f< Formerly there lived an old man, a bamboo-hewer, who 

 hewed bamboos on the bosky hill-side and many wise he 

 wrought them to serve men's needs and his name was Sanugi 

 no Miyakko. Now one day while plying the hatchet in a 

 grove of bamboos was he ware of a tall stem, whence streamed 

 forth through the gloom a dazzling light. Much marvelling 

 he drew near to the reed and saw that the glory proceeded 

 from the heart thereof and he looked again and beheld a 

 tiny creature, a palm's breadth in stature and of rare loveli- 



