[196] Licuala paludosa, Griff, and other species. [↑]
[197] Jari lipan—lit. centipede’s feet, i.e. a sort of fringe generally made of plaited strips of cocoa-nut leaf. [↑]
[198] Tĕrap—a kind of wild bread-fruit tree. [↑]
[199] Strips of bamboo or fronds of palm-leaf braided into an open square shape with cords attached to the four corners, the ends of the cords being joined so that it can be hung up. [↑]
[200] Buah kĕras, the “Candle-nut.” [↑]
[201] The cut rice is beaten, by handfuls, against the inner edge of the bucket so that the grain falls into the bucket; this process is called mĕmbanting padi, a phrase here rendered by “threshing.” [↑]
[202] The tuai or pĕnuwai is a much smaller instrument than the sickle (sabit) and cuts only a few ears at a time, vide supra, p. 58. [↑]
[203] A koyan, as a measure of weight, contains 40 pikuls = 5333⅓ lbs.
Rather over 20 gallons (gantang) of rice (padi) go to a pikul.
The term koyan is also used as a measure of capacity, in which sense it contains 800 gantangs.