Whilst Bintang Alnasj (Alnash) is the “Wain.” [↑]
[236] Newbold, op. cit. vol. ii. p. 355. Cf. Colebrooke’s Life and Essays, vol. iii. p. 284. [↑]
[237] A Shaʿir Rĕjang has been published at Singapore, and for an extract from the Rĕjang of ’Che Busu, the reader is referred to the Appendix. [↑]
[238] The MS. here and in the blanks above is defective or illegible. But the prescriptions for the other days show that the image is to be thrown either in some definite direction or into the jungle, simply; on each day the thing to be thrown away of course corresponds with the symbol of the particular day. [↑]
[239] Newbold, op. cit. vol. ii. pp. 356, 357. [↑]
[242] Occasionally these squares, instead of being reversed, are turned sideways, thus:—
| 8 | 3 | 4 |
| 1 | 5 | 9 |
| 6 | 7 | 2 |
| 17 | 23 | 4 | 10 | 11 |
| 24 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 18 |
| 1 | 7 | 13 | 19 | 25 |
| 8 | 14 | 20 | 21 | 2 |
| 15 | 16 | 22 | 3 | 9 |