272 TRAVELS IN THE EAST IKDIAW ABOHTPELAGO. 



certain part of tlieir rice and sago, and pro^dde men to 

 row Ms prau or to carry his cliair, if lie proceeded by 

 land, but they have been freed from this onerous 

 service, and the Malays who Hve in the village with 

 the rajah are obliged to perform such offices for 

 him. In regard to maniage, each man buys his wife, 

 her price, according to their laws, depending on the 

 rank of her father, as iq Ceratn, but a man is not, 

 however, required to cut off a human head before he 

 can be allowed to marry, as is the custom in that 

 idand. Instead, therelbre, of being fierce head-huut- 

 ers, as the Alfura of Ceratn, they are mild and iu- 

 offensive. They l)elieve, according to Mi'. Miller, in 

 one Supreme Being, who made every thing, and is 

 the source of all good and all evil. They believe in 

 evil spirits. Prayer leads to prospexity; the negli- 

 gence of this duty to adversity. Thi'ough the love 

 that this Supreme Being had for man, whom He had 

 created, He sent him a teacher, Nabiata, who lived 

 among the mountains. He gave the \atI1 of his 

 Master in seven commandments, namely: 1, TIjou 

 shalt not kill nor wound. 2. Thou shalt not steal. 

 3. Thou shalt not commit adultery. 4. Thou shalt 

 not set thyself against thy /V/im?'. 6. A man shall not 

 set himseK up against the chief of his tribe. 6, The 

 chief shall not set himself up against him that is ov^er 

 his or other tribes. 7. The chief over more than one 

 tribe shall not set himself up against him who is 

 placed over all the tribes. Nabiata also taught that, 

 though the body perishes, the soul shall still continue 

 to exist. They who have kept the foregoing com- 

 mandments — for all the acts of men ai'e recorded by 



