Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula - Sabrizain.org

CHAP. VI EAST COAST NEGRITOS 295
better. He learned of this antidote by seeing a crow
that he had wounded fly down to the ground, swallow
some earth, and resume its flight.'
Pang-an or E. Semang*.-—The following is a summary
of Vaughan-Stevens' description of the preparation of
Ipoh poison by the Pangan. The sap of the tree
(obtained by shaving the stem and bruising it with
the back of a " parang ") is poured into a vessel made of
twisted palm-leaf It is stirred till it turns bright
yellow, when it is poured into a pot for boiling. The
bark of " perghoo," " choichoi," " kree," " lendow,"
and " garsung "
is put into a bamboo with the leaves
of " rumpi " (j-zV. ? " rami ") and " jelatang " " ; water
is
added, and the mixture heated for about ten minutes.
The liquor is then added to the pot, the lees of wet
bark being wrapped in a leaf and wrung out to extract
the remainder of the liquid. Meanwhile the bark of
" Blay kechil," " Blay besar," " Blay hitam," and " Bhoi
is similarly boiled and added to the liquor. The tubers
of "gadong" and "kepayang" fruits are cut up small and
boiled for four hours, when they too are added to the
mixture. The fruit of "s'lowung" and " chow " and the
roots of " bal," " sedudo'," and " begung " are boiled in
yet another baml)ooand put into the pot with the rest.
The sap of two rattans (Riong and Butong) follows,
and the heads of centipedes and snakes and scorpions'
tails are smoked between two knife-blades and added
also. Fresh Rengut (" ringhut ") fruits may now be
added if procurable, and the pot containing the mixture
is boiled till its contents are reduced by one-half'
The contents are then poured through a palm-leaf
funnel into a clean bamboo, the pot washed, the
' Sir H. Low, quoted by Dc la The :iccount is probably (as usual with
Croix, p. 333. - V.-St. "jelatung." V.-St.) ecleclic. For identification-,
Vaughan - Stevens, ii. 1 1 1 seqq. v. App.
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