[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 writing. [↑]