SUMATRA.
At the funerals of the great, the soothsayers act an important part. The corpse is not interred till the other princes or rajahs are assembled: it is meanwhile, put into a well pitched collin <if luapli wood. Preparatory lo (lie fiilietal buffaloes ami horses, sometimes to the number of a bundled or more, are slaughtered for the entertainment of the company. The women bring each a basket full of rite, which they place around (lie coffin, ami afterwards divert themselves and dance til' the whole of the provisions is consumed. The priest then lakes a piece of hnlValoc or l;orsc llesh which lie waxes about wilh a vaiicty of i-n lalions, and grimaces, which he devours wiili great avidity, lie next kills a fowl and his tie Mood run upon the crlliii, after ulucli he takes a broom made of the fibres of the cocoa-nut shell, and begins lo lay about him lustily to drive away the evil .spiiils. Meanwhile four men lift up the collin and run away with it, In order to escape from those spirits ; it is imihedialely deposited in the eaith, a shed is created over ii and the horns of the buffaloes nailed to the posts wiili which it is construcled.— 'l'lic world in Miniulmw
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume V, Issue 112, 7 April 1853, Page 4
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211SUMATRA. Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume V, Issue 112, 7 April 1853, Page 4
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