20 RECORDS OF MALAY MAGIC. 
And now the ceremony being fairly commenced, the Pa- 
wang scatters incense on the embers, and bathes or rather “‘ sham- 
poos ” himself in the cloud of incense which volumes up from 
the newly replenished censer, and hangs in a dense grey cloud 
over his head. He then inhales the incense through his nostrils 
and announces in the accents of a strange tongue which I after-. 
Malay vessels, and in some cases, as in the present. at both. The timbers 
of the sides of this structure have a long gradual upward curve from the 
centre of the ship’s bulwarks. 
12, Ula-Ula: do not, as one might be tempted to do at first sight, 
read wlar-ular. The words are no doubt radically connected, but are quite 
distinct, there being no ‘‘r” in ula-u/a, which word, I believe, has not yet 
been given in dictionaries. 
17. Juak: lit. to hold out at arms’ length by stretching out the arms; 
hence to spread, to shake out the sails. 
19. Pusat tasek: lit. the navel of the waters, is of course the spot 
which is so often referred to in Malay literature, the centre of the seas con- 
ceived as a vast whirlpool from the centre of which springs the magic tree 
called Puah Janggi, on whose summit sits according to some accounts, the 
bird (the geruda) which may be identified with the roc of fable. 
21. Janggi is the Malay corruption of Zanggi, Ethiopian or ‘* Black,” 
a word which appears in such compounds as Zanzibar, lit. the country of 
the Blacks. 
Pauh literally means mango, but according to Yule ‘*‘ Pauh janggi” the 
Black or African mango, is the name ofthe ‘‘ coco-de-mer ” (double-cocoa- 
nut) the produce of the Lodotcea Sechellarum, which grows only in the 
Seychelles, but whose fruit is cast up generally on the Maldive islands, 
but also occasionally on Ceylon and 38. India, the coasts of Zanzibar, 
Sumatra and others of the Malay islands. Great virtues as medicine and 
antidote were supposed to reside in these fruits. and extravagant prices 
were paid for them. ‘The old belief was that the fruit was produced on a 
palm growing below the sea, whose fronds, according to Malay seamen were 
sometimes seen in quiet bights on the Sumatran coast especially in the 
Lampong Bay. 
26. Sinjagan is the temporary dwelling place or residence of the spirit 
invoked, i. e. the Pawang’s body. 
30. Mlemangyil tuan, an easier way of translating this would be to 
take memanggul as elliptical for orang memanggil i. e. ‘*they call you, my 
lord, to hasten hither.” 
32. I can make nothing of ‘* dengan katt padi-nya” unless the phrase 
is taken as a metathesis of ** dengan di-kait (nya) padi-nya”=whilst catch- 
ing at the padi. This dz is often omitted, but even then the precise signi- 
ficance of the phrase is not apparent. 
4+. I can make nothing of /embah paku-nya. 
47. Telipat: evidently a play upon te/zpok, the lotus. 
56. Lengkong pulau is the royal striped tiger. 
58. Nibong Hangus, a coal-black leopard. 
