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I. H. N. Evans: Malay Sous. tig
i Waterfall, and, after this, partake if a curry feast.
The washing of the body should be done with
seven dippers of water in which limes ami soap
is full of suds.
n mixed till the water
When the bathing is over the
remains of the sintok and the limes are thrown
h h thrower saying, "Satu, dua,tiga buang!"
(i.e. "one, two, three, throw them away!"). The
•' soap "
is, of course, washed off afterwards in the
ordinary way. Before the feast commences a
handful of food-all the kinds to be eaten being
included is taken and placed below a tree in the
jungle. The bona is performed only by Penang
and Province Wellesley Malays, and is said to
have originally been adopted from Indian Troops
stationed in Penang. | Information obtained from
Awang, a Province Wellesley Malay).
The root or fibre of Ciniiamomuin seiitu (?)