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tree. The tray having been suspended he faced the land and 
breaking off and throwing down a mangrove branch, gave ut- 
terance to three land cooees, which, as he afterwards informed 
me, were intended to apprise the Land spirits (orang darat) of 
the offerings which awaited their acceptance. Returning to the 
house he improvised a sort of rude paint brush by tying up 
with the creeper called ribuu-itbu (the female not the male variety ) 
leaves of the following plants or trees (1) daun sapenoh (2) 
lenjuang (also called janjuang or senjuang which has been , identi- 
fied with =t. John) merah (3) gandarusa (4) satawar (5) sadingin 
(6) (7) mangrove (bakau). 
_ Not long after this we started for the Stakes, taking with us 
the remaining trays, the first of which was suspended by the 
Bilal from a high wooden tripod which had been erected for the 
purpose upon the sandbank, and the last, which contained the 
goat, was taken on to the Stakes. Before we reached our des- 
tination, however, the Bilal had disposed of a large quantity of 
offerings of all sorts which he had brought with him in a basket, 
now scattered upon the face of the waters. The following is as 
accurate a list of the things so distributed as I was able to make. 
(1).—A portion of parched rice 
(2).—Sweet potatoes 
(3).—T wo bananas boiled 
(4).—Two lepats 
(5).—Three boiled bananas 
(6).—Two katupats 
(7).—Three yams 
(8).—A portion of parched rice 
(9).—Three short sticks of tapioca 
- (10).—Three sweet potatoes sa 
(11).—Four sweet potatoes 
(12).—A portion of raw liver 
(13).—A portion of cooked meat 
(14).—Four sweet potatoes _ 
(15).—Three boiled bananas 
(16).—Three katupats 
(17).—Three green bananas 
(18).—Six katupats (in 2 sets of 3) 
(19).—Six green bananas (ditto) 
(20).—Three sweet potatoes — 
