J.R.A.S., S.B., No. 7, p. 26. ↑
123
J.R.A.S., S.B., No. 1, pp. 93, 94. ↑
124
J.R.A.S., S.B., No. 7, p. 22. ↑
125
The sacrificial buffalo (when presented to a Raja) is covered with a cloth, and has its horns
dressed and a breast-ornament (dokoh) hung round its neck (vide Pl. 11, Fig. 2). In the case of a
great Raja or Sultan, yellow cloth is used. ↑
126
Infra, Chap. VI. pp. 450–452. ↑
127
I may add that the dried penis of the squirrel (chula tupei) is believed to be a most powerful
aphrodisiac, and that many Malays believe that squirrels are occasionally found dead with this
organ caught fast in cleft timber.
Mr. H. N. Ridley, in a pamphlet on Malay Materia Medica, already referred to, says:—
“Many things are used as aphrodisiacs by the natives.... Among them are the ovipositor of a
grasshopper, which is popularly supposed to be the male organ of the squirrel; Balanophora,
sp., a rare plant growing on Mount Ophir, and the Durian (Durio zibethinus).” Mr. Ridley
regards the use of Balanophora for this purpose as an illustration of the “doctrine of
signatures.” ↑
128
Vide J.R.A.S., S.B., l.c. ↑
129
Vide p. 108, supra. ↑
130
In Court and Kampong, p. 47. ↑
131
J.R.A.S., S.B., No. 7, p. 26. ↑
132
Ibid. ↑
133
I have not heard this word used on the west coast. It is of the east coast that Mr. Clifford is here