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sence of a Malay population at a date long prior to the 

 advent of the Chinese miner. The grave was discovered 

 about twenty years ago by workmen employed by the Mentri 

 of Perak to make tne Kamunting road, and it excited much 

 curiosity among the Malays at the time. The Mentri and 

 all the ladies of his family went on elephants to see it and 

 it has been an object of much popular prestige ever since. 



• The Malays of Java were able from village tradition to 

 give the name and sex of the occupant of this lonely tomb, 

 " Toh Bidan Susu Lanjut," whose name sounds better in the 

 original than in an English translation. She is said to have been 

 an old Achinese woman of good family ; of her personal history 

 nothing is known, but her claims to respectability are 

 evinced by the carved head and foot stones of Achinese 

 workmanship, which adorn her grave, and her sanctity is 

 proved by the fact that the stones are eight feet apart. 

 It is a well-known Malay supersition that the stones placed 

 to mark the graves of Saints miraculously increase their 

 relative distance during the lapse of years, and thus bear 

 mute testimony to the holiness of the person whose resting- 

 place they mark. 



The Kramat on the Kamunting road is on the spur of a 

 hill through which the roadway is cut. A tree overshadows 

 the grave and is hung with strips of white cloth and other 

 rags (panji panji ) which the devout have put there. The di- 

 rection of the grave is as nearly as possible due north and 

 south. The stones at its head and foot are of the same 

 size, and in every respect identical one with the other. They 

 are of sandstone, and are said by the natives to have been 

 brought from Achin. In design and execution they are 

 superior to ordinary Malay art ; as will be seen, I think, on 

 reference to the rubbings of the carved surface of one of 

 them, which have been executed for me by the Larut Survey 

 Office, and which I have transmitted to the Society with this 

 paper. The extreme measurements of the stones (furnished 

 from the same source) are 2 ; 1" X 0' 9' ; X 0' 7". They 

 are- in excellent preservation and the carving is fresh 

 and sharp. Some Malays profess to discover in the three 

 rows of vertical direction on the broadest face of the 

 slabs the Mohamedan attestation of the unity of God 

 M\<til {La ilaha illa-lla) repeated over and over again ; but 

 I confess that I have been unable to do so. The offerings 

 at a Kramat are generally incense [istanqi or satangi) or 



