- Two sweet potatoes.
- One cooked banana.
- Three handfuls of white pulut rice.
- Three handfuls of parched rice.
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This was one of the tide-braces which are used to strengthen the stakes, the one used being that
on the left hand looking seaward. ↑
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Kelong is the name given to one of the kinds of fishing-stakes (something like weirs) common
on the coasts of the Peninsula. ↑
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A different Pawang gave me the following (alternative) instructions:—“When you are about to
plant the (first) seaward pole of the fishing-stakes, take hold of it and say:—
‘O Pawang Kisa, Pawang Bĕrima, Si Arjuna, King at Sea,
O Durai, Si Biti is the name of your mother, Si Tanjong (Sir Cape) that of your father!
In your charge are the points of the capes, in your charge all borders of the shore,
In your charge, too, are the river bars!
Your mother’s place is on the seaward pole, your child’s at the shoreward end of the screens,
Your father’s in the tip of the “wings” towards the west.
We be four brothers;
If in truth we be brothers,
Do you lend me your assistance.’“Here plant the pole, and say:—
‘My foot is planted in the very heavens,
My pole rests against the pillar of the firmament.
God lets it down, Muhammad receives it.
Six fathoms to the left, six fathoms to the right,
Do you, O family of three, assist in my maintenance.
May this be granted by God,’” etc.↑
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