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Nogosarie is the most accessible, provided the sea is not too rough. 
Six nests are then ordinarily collected to be compared with the sam- 
pic of- the previous year and to judge if the collection can take place 
or not. 
If the head men consider that the nests are fit to be collected, the 
people then send for the Wayang and Toppeng, and the overseer 
makes further regulations with the head men of the cliff, for what 
is necessary for offerings and feasts. 
According to old custom, a Thursday is always chosen to make a 
beginning with the preparation of what is needed for the feast, so 
that on this day the people occupy themselves with cleaning the 
Ballang,—the cliff which is situated at the mouth of the river 
Tjintjing Guling. 
The next morning (Friday) the buffaloes are killed. Two hours 
afterwards tl#y take some pieces of flesh, tongue, entrails, &c., 
from the slaughtered animals, and place them on small bowls 
ivoven of bambus called Sadjen. They are then offered to Bol- 
long Watu Tumpang and near the watch houses of the cliffs at 
Dabar, Gedee, Wale, and Nogosarie; while at the cliff of Medjeng- 
lilek a he-goat is offered with incense. This festival must, bv 
old custom, always take place on a Friday, which by the natives 
is called Ngaderan. In the afternoon of the same day a Wayang 
is performed in the Bollong, generally a piece of seven acts: while, 
the necessary flowers, fruits, ointments, siri, pinang t&c., and what is 
further required for the offerings are prepared by the Tukctn kern- 
bang, All these materials are placed on the before mentioned 
bambu bowls, and, in the evening at ^ past 5 o’clock, are brought 
by a servant into the Bollong near the Scroot tree. The origin 
of this tree is ascribed to a Javanese named Kiai who is buried 
there, and above whose grave the tree has risen; and now the su- 
pei stilion of the natives declares that the tree has sprung from the 
navel of the dead. They likewise make offering on the burial 
place, at the waringtn tree, and in the room, the pahtry, kitchen and 
other places in the dwelling of the overseer. 
After the wayang-players have returned from the Bollong, the 
bed placed near the entrance of the godown, known under the 
general appellation of devils-bed or bed ofNyai Ratu Kidul (which 
has existed from time immemorial) is put in order by the Tukang 
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