frHE ©RANG SAB I MB A. 
fmimals used are the hog, palando, kora, lutong, musang, tupai 
kubong, bewak, rnalok, pirgam, kalongkeng, koko, tiong, punal, the 
oil of snakes, and many kinds of fish. The kijang, rasa, elephant, and 
bear are not found in Baltam. Flesh of all kinds is cooked by the 
men, vegetables by the women. They use a Dyak sumpitan which 
is also armed with a spear head after the manner of the musket and 
bayonet.* It is curious that this weapon has been imported for 
them from time immemorial, and that they have not acquired the 
art of forming surapitans of bambus li^e the JJermuns. The Bor¬ 
nean sumpitan is artificially bored. 
They make rude temporary huts in the forest with the floors on 
the ground, and never remain long at the same spot. 
Before marriage the bridegroom prepares a hut of his own to which 
he carries the bride on the day of marriage from the house of the 
Batin where they are united. \2 histas of white cloth, and 
some siri and pinang are delivered by the bridegroom into the 
Batin’s hands for ^he bride’s parents. 
The children of brothers cannot intermarry, but those of sis¬ 
ters and of a brother and sister may. 
When one of the family dies, the body is washed, wrapped in doth 
and buried in a grave, an excavation being made into one side to 
receive it. Above the grave they place rice, a pot, an axe, a hatchet, 
a knife, siri and pinang, praying the deceased not to call ou them or 
require anything from them in future. A fire is kindled at the side. 
On the third and seventh days they visit the grave, and after a month 
abandon the house and seek a new locality for their residence. The 
goods descend to sons. Adultery is punished by a fine of 1,000 
rattans, seduction of a virgin by being compelled to marry her and 
give the customary present to her parents. 
Their ancestors were warned in dreams that if the race bathed 
tempests would visit them. Hence they abstain as religiously from 
bathing as they do from eating the fowl. The only punishment 
which the Malays threaten them with, or ever inflict, is to duck 
them in water, of which they have so great a horror that they 
say they would prefer being killed at once. 
Dreams are greatly dreaded, and, if bad, keep the dreamer 
* They only use the ipoh to poison the darts. They take the bark of the 
?ree (which is a common one) bruize it, and boil it, till jhe juice is of the 
consistence of ebandu (opium prepared for smoking-) 
