in each 
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ease. His adoptive father next taught him fencing 
and the secrets of invulnerability. After that he was circum- 
cised amid the usual festivities. 
The 
dons 
Cocks in battle night and day 
Till the pits were strewn with feathers ; 
Flowed in streams the boiling water, 
Heaped in mounds the offal rice: 
Egg-plants sprouted on the rafters, 
Turmerie grew upon the shelves, 
Lemon-grass within the kitchen, 
For so long the feasting lasted. 
modin is summoned. dAwang Sulong Merah Muda 
Robe of linen fine in texture, 
Robe down-reaching to the feet : 
Turban green from looms of Mecca; 
In his hair a bride-groom’s aigrette 
Set with diamonds and glisters. 
He is carried seven times in procession round the palace 
and thence to the bathing stage, where he is sprinkled with 
sacrificial rice and bathed with limes. On his return to the 
palace he is met and again sprinkled with rice. That night 
he sits enthroned in public and his fingers are stained with 
henna. 
Next morning, he has his meal : 
Then he fed as was his custom, 
Three mouthfuls and he finished : 
Fourthly he wiped his fingers ; 
Fifthly and he would gargle; 
After that he chewed his betel 
Sharp and pungent to the palate. 
And all his face was flushed with beauty. 
He is seated on a banana leaf, and circumcised, the priest 
charming the knife and the water fr@m spirits of evil! 
After that, his teeth are filed and the tooth-fiier slain; 
and they feast seven days. 
Ro ‘At *Soc:, 
No. 52, 1908. 
