RECORDS OF MALAY MAGIC. 53 
From the source where the waters trickle down, 
To the mouth where the waves break, 
The Raja and Penghulu shall govern the land. 
But where the padi fields are laid out, 
And the areca nut palms are planted in rows, 
The Lembaga shall rule his tribe. 
The Bidwanda tribe, who glory in their descent from the 
Sakaies, provide the Penghulu, they are the tribes of the soil, 
and from them other immigrant tribes may purchase the right to 
use the land for their sustenance. 
In the Negri Sembilan it was the Bidwanda Penghulu and 
this mixed Malay and Sakai people, who, being converted to 
Islamism, required a Sultan as the Mohammadan law-giver and 
sentan Embassy to Menangkabau to procure one. Then the 
Sultan and the Penghulu together governed the country, the 
Sultan doing his best to carry out the law of the Prophet —Hu- 
kum Sharak—-and the Penghulus, whilst acknowledging that law 
and bowing to it, maintaining the Aboriginal cult by the en- 
couragement of Fetishism, through the Pawangs, and the cus- 
toms of the tribes—Hukum Adat—who had come to their state, 
by allowing tke Lembagas to act as petty magistrates, and give 
decisions in accordance ; which more often than not, especially 
on such questions as marriage inheritance, and the settlement of 
debt disputes, are not at all on the same level as the Moham- 
madan law. 
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Sate cian sl oe yes 
Vooe aan = 3 etre #3) 
ity le vis, Slo 
Alam ber-Raja, negri ber-Penghulu, 
Suku ber-Tua, Anak-buah ber-Ibu-bapa, 
Orang sa-manda ber-tompat sa-manda, 
Dagang ber-tapatan, prahu ber-tambatan. 
