ETHNOLOGICAL NOTES. 
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returned again to Baram just before. The Long Patas 
and Pa Liits now live in one village under Oyau Blawing 
in the Tutau River. 
According to them, their two chiefs deities are Barn, 
god of the sky, and Luma, god of the earth. Plain , the 
hawk, is their messenger and tells the people what to 
do. Their other omens are the same as those of the 
Ivenyahs, i.e., Isit (?), Telao (Ivijang), Pladok (Plandok), 
Munin (Munsang), etc. 
After death their souls go to a country called Long 
Apek, a tributary of the Baram River near the mouth,, 
probably the Lutong. This was found out by a man 
accidentally 
“ A sick man asked a friend of his to go out and get 
a monkey for him to eat, so the man went off with his 
blow-pipe. He soon came to a river which he did not 
recognise and heard voices as if there was a large number 
of people dwelling there. He entered the river and 
although he could hear voices all round him, he could 
see nothing. 
“ At last he managed to catch hold of one of these 
invisible beings, who spat in his eyes, whereupon the 
eves of the man were opened and he saw a village and 
crowd of inhabitants. He also espied the sick man 
there, whom he had left behind. He asked him to come 
back' with him but the other inhabitants refused to allow 
him to go, but the man threatened to amok if his friend 
were not allowed to return, so they agreed to send 
him back for a short time. When the man eventually 
returned home he found the sick man breathing his last. 
He called out the rest of the village at once and tried to 
find this strange country again, but he and his people 
searched in vain.” 
Long Apek means “ tempat singgah” that is “ the 
calling place.” Baru rules over this country. 
After a man (or woman) has died, his soul wanders 
about on the face of the earth, until his relations have 
gone through the ceremony of “menulang,” which 
consists of exhuming the corpse from a temporary grave, 
and the bones, having been cleaned, are put into a 
precious jar. After this process the soul floats down 
river until it reaches Long Apek. When they reach 
this spirit world they all have to work just as on earth,. 
