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of cocoanut leaves called ‘‘centipede-legs”? (jart lipan). The 
Pawang who was standing close by then helped to arrange 
three banana leaves as a lining inside the tray: after which he 
made three circles round the tray with the censer and then set 
the latter down exactly in the centre underneath the tray, then 
he once more anointed his hands, and passed them completely 
over both tray and fringe. A short pause ensued, and the Pa- 
wang took the longer piece of yellow cloth and wrapped it, like 
~ a royal robe, round the shoulders of the patient, who was sitting 
up inside his mosquito curtain. This done he returned to his 
former occupations, and standing up and facing the north 
with the bowl of parched rice (already referred to) (which he 
has first however scooped up with his hands and passed through 
his fingers) poured the contents of the bowl slowly into the 
tray and then planted the egg (already referred to) in the 
very centre of the layer of parched rice in the tray. This done 
he took a banch of bananas which was offered him by one of 
those present, and cutting them off one by one laid them 
in a dish, only to re-emptv it a moment later, and deposit the 
bananas one by one in the tray. 
He now returned to the patient and kneeling down in front 
of him, and holding his hands over the.smoking censer, mut- 
tered an invocation, and then wrapping the shorter piece of the 
yellow cloth round his own head, slowly but steadily pushed the 
patient (still in a sitting posture and wrapped in the yellow 
robe) forwards until he was seated exactly underneath the cen- 
tre o: the tray facing the east, with the long fringe drooping 
about him on every side like a curtain and hiding his face almost 
entirely from the spectators (with the exception of his feet 
which were stretched out at full length in front of him.) 
The censer voluming upwards its silver-grey smoke was at 
the same time lifted and the Pawang having made three more 
circles with it round the patient, finally set it down at his feet. 
The loading of the tray now recommenced, the Pawang 
facing the south deposited the first instalment of cooked offerings 
(consisting of five portions made up from various parts of a 
fowl) one in each corner of the tray and one in the middle; 
then after washing his hands, he added five portions of 
parched rice, washed rice and rice of various colours, viz., green, 
red, blue, black, and saffron (so as to make seven kinds of rice 
