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ii EQUIPMENTS OF ROYALTY 31
of flowers in a Chinese furnace. Its deadly qualities
came down to it from the sky, and if cleaned (with
acid) at the source of a river, the fish at the embouchure
came floating up dead.
" The sword that he wore was called lang pen-
gonggong? 'the successful swooper/lit. the 'kite carry-
ing off its prey.'
" The next article described is his turban, which,
among the Malays, is a square
handkerchief folded
and knotted round the head."
" He next took his royal handkerchief, knotting
it so that it stood up with the ends ; projecting one of
them he called dendam ta sudah (endless love) : it was
purposely unfinished ;
if it were finished the end of the
world would come. It had been woven in no ordinary
way,
but had been the work of his mother from her
youth. Wearing it he was provided
with all the
love-compelling secrets. (The names of a number of
charms to excite passion are given, but they cannot be
explained in the compass of a note)." 2
He wore the Malay national garment the sarong.
It was "a robe of muslin of the finest kind; no
ordinary weaving had produced it ; it had been woven
in a jar in the middle of the ocean by people with
gills, relieved by others with beaks ; no sooner was it
finished than the maker was put to death, so that no
one might be able to make one like it. It was not of
the fashion of the clothing of the rajas of the present
in the
day, but of those of olden time. If it were put
sun it if it got damper, were soaked in water it became
drier. A slight tear mended by darning only increased
1 The usual form is ptnggonggong, leman," "Asam garam" " Ahadan
from gonggong, to carry in the mouth. mabuk," " Sa-palit gila" " Sri gfgah"
- Their Malay names are " Si-mula- and " Doa unus." J.R.A.S., S..,
jadi" " Ashik sa-kampong" " Si-putar No. 17, pp. 94-97.