694 A VIHIT TO THE MOUNTAINEERS, DO PONGO, 
like the people of the plain. They call their stones “ Nabi Ma¬ 
homed”* or else Dewa, but they put their confidence in them as 
they have always done. The mountaineers, who have become Ma- 
homedans go to be married in the mosques of the villages in tlie 
plain, and they ought also to assist in the ceremonies required by 
the Mahomedan religion. As to the political circumstances of the 
Orang Dongo I have nothing to say. They are subjects of the Sul¬ 
tan of BJma, like the other inhabitants of the country, governed in 
the same way, under the same laws and under the same servitude, 
the only difference being that they are more burdened than the others. 
* See vol. I. p. 338* and note. 
H. Zollinger. 
