238 MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES. 



benzoin (kaminian) ; these are burned in little stands made 

 of bamboo rods ; one end is stuck in the ground and the other 

 split into four or five, and then opened out and plaited with 

 basket work, so as to hold a little earth. They are called 

 sangka ; a Malay will often vow that if he succeeds in some 

 particular project, or gets out of some difficulty in which he 

 may happen to be placed, he will burn three or more sangka 

 at such and such a Kramat. Persons who visit a Kramat in 

 times of distress or difficulty, to pray and to vow offerings, 

 in case their prayers a,re granted, usually leave behind them 

 as tokens of their vows small pieces of white cloth, which 

 are tied to the branches of a tree or to sticks planted in the 

 ground near the sacred spot. 



For votary purposes the long-forgotten tomb of Toh Bidan 

 Susu Lanjut enjoys considerable popularity among the 

 Mohamedans of Larut ; and the tree which overshadows it 

 has I am glad to say been spared the fate which awaited the 

 rest of the jungle which overhung the road. No coolie was 

 bold enough to put an axe to it. 



W. E. M. 



[ The tracin g, which it is found impossible to print here, 

 is in the Society's possession, and can be seen at the 

 Baffles Library by any one interested in the subject.] 



Malay-English Dictionaries. 



It does not speak well for either the enterprise or the 

 Scholarship of English dwellers in this part of the world, 

 that the best Malay and English dictionary which we possess 

 is more than two thirds of a century old. Since the publi- 

 cation of Marsden's work there have indeed been issued 

 several Malay Vocabularies, besides the more ambitious and 

 voluminous work of Craufurd. But only the scantiest of 

 these vocabularies has attempted to print the Malay words 

 in the Arabic characters, in which alone the educated Malay 

 is accustomed to read his own language. Even Marsden is 

 sparing of his Arabic type, and foregoes the use of. it in 

 most of his numerous quotation s]from Malay authors. Under 

 these circumstances, and having regard to the attainment of 

 Malay as it is expected from many of the Civil Servants in 

 this Colony, we cannot wonder that the supply of copies of 

 Favre's Malay-French Dictionary sent out to the Straits 



