320 ON MINES AND MINERS IN KINTA, PERAK. 
Sangka.—A receptacle in which to burn offerings of sweet 
woods and gums; it is madeof a stick of 
bamboo about three feet long, one end be- 
ing split and opened out to receive the 
charcoal: it is stuck in the ground near 
races and heaps of tin sand.* 
Surut or meniurut.—The process of getting rid of the sand 
by driving it down the stream. 
Tahi biji.—See biji. 2 
Takong.—A dam. 
Tali ayer —The head-race of a mine. 
Tanah ambil.—(See ambil). 
Tanah buang.—Driit which is not worth putting through the 
process of washing overburthen. Equal to 
tanah papas. 
Tanah léris—High ground which is available for hill 
mining. 
Tanah padi.—Made earth, immediately below the top inch 
or two of mould called kuht akar. It may 
contain tin ores or not. 
Tanah papas.—( See papas.) 
Tatin gulang—The pawang’s fee for the ceremony of 
erecting a genggulang. 
Teka.—Laterite. 
Tekong.—Slag from the furnace. 
Tebok.—An excavation larger than a ludang, and which 
eannot be baled with a penimba, a kait 
must be erected. 
Tangloh.—The sub-stratum of earth or clay below the ore. 
Tuan tanah or tuan kélian—A wmine-owner. 
Tikang api.—The smelter. 
A. HALE, 
Inspector of Mines, Kinta. 
* See No. 2 of this Journal, page 238. The derivation of the 
name of this primitive Malay censer from the Sanskrit cankha 
(conch-shel!) has been pointed out (Malay Manual, p. 32). Forpns 
notes having seen in a sacred grove in Java “ the remnants of small 
torches of sweet gums which had been offered.” (A Naturalist’s 
Wanderings, p. 97). Ep. 
