7. Mangrove (bakau).
These leaves were tied together with a small creeper called ribu-ribu (a so-called “female” variety, which is said to have larger leaves than the “male variety,” being used). For further details, vide Chap. III. pp. 78–80, supra. [↑]
[319] The following is a list, as correct as I was able to make it, of the number and order of the offerings which were thus distributed:—
- 1. A portion of parched rice.
- 2. A portion of sweet potatoes.
- 3. Two (cooked) bananas.
- 4. Two lĕpats (small cylindrical
rice-bags).
- 5. Three (cooked) bananas.
- 6. Two kĕtupats (small diamond-shaped
bags).
- 7. Three yams (k’ladi).
- 8. A portion of parched rice.
- 9. Three short lengths of the stem of the tapioca plant (ubi kayu).
- 10. Three sweet potatoes.
- 11. Four sweet potatoes.
- 12. A portion of uncooked liver (hati).
- 13. A portion of cooked meat.
- 14. Four sweet potatoes.
- 15. Three cooked bananas.
- 16. Three kĕtupats.
- 17. Three (green) bananas.
- 18. Three kĕtupats.
- 19.
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- 20. Three green bananas.
- 21.
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- 22. Three sweet potatoes.
- 23. Three yams.
- 24. Three lĕpats.
- 25.
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- 26. Two lĕpats.
- 27. Five kĕtupats.
- 28. Two yams.
- 29. Two sweet potatoes.
- 30. One cooked banana.
- 31. Three handfuls of white pulut rice.
- 32. Three handfuls of parched rice.