(d) Fire
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Skeat, Walter William
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3. Gandarusa.
4. Satawar.
5. Sadingin.
6. Pulut-pulut (?) or Sĕlaguri (?)
7. Mangrove (bakau).
These leaves were tied together with a small creeper called ribu-ribu (a so-called “female” variety, which is said to have larger leaves than the “male variety,” being used). For further details, vide Chap. III. pp. 78–80, supra. ↑
319 The following is a list, as correct as I was able to make it, of the number and order of the offerings which were thus distributed:—
1. A portion of parched rice.
2. A portion of sweet potatoes.
3. Two (cooked) bananas.
4. Two lĕpats (small cylindrical rice-bags).
5. Three (cooked) bananas.
6. Two kĕtupats (small diamond-shaped bags).
7. Three yams (k’ladi).
8. A portion of parched rice.
9. Three short lengths of the stem of the tapioca plant (ubi kayu).
10. Three sweet potatoes.
11. Four sweet potatoes.
12. A portion of uncooked liver (hati).
13. A portion of cooked meat.
14. Four sweet potatoes.
15. Three cooked bananas.
16. Three kĕtupats.
17. Three (green) bananas.
18. Three kĕtupats.
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20. Three green bananas.
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22. Three sweet potatoes.
23. Three yams.
24. Three lĕpats.
25. Three ,, ,, lĕpats ,, .
26. Two lĕpats.
27. Five kĕtupats.
28. Two yams.
29. Two sweet potatoes.
30. One cooked banana.
31. Three handfuls of white pulut rice.
32. Three handfuls of parched rice.
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