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ten children.   Later I engaged three new men, Soloks, and have made Nia their mandor and told him if this prahn was not in order I hold him responsible. Bajans are afraid of Soloks and especially of Nia, so I released the two Bajans and they will go ashore here.
   I have been to-night to the beginning of the festival of a Bajan marriage in a large thatched house next door to Si Chins. I was delighted to hear the music and see the dances and all the costumes and decorations of the house which are really fine and the dances most interesting and I was amazed at the talent shown and the great variety of colors, patterns, etc. of the clothes worn by the natives. Most of the dancing was done by the men although as a rule they divide it, but as it happens now, a great many of the women are now out on the reefs hunting teripang and fish. There were probably about 75 natives in the house and I believe I have never been in a congregation which wore such a variety of knives, daggers, etc. Large elliptical bladed Solok knives or swords called "badong" and many varieties of Bugis "keris" and "bujak" or spears, both short & long and "sumpitan" (blowpipe).

Thursday, April 24, 1913.
Pulo Derawan.
   The beating of the "tambut", a native drum and "kulintangan", a series of small gongs and a very large gong or "agong" has only been interrupted at short intervals and then continued and often accompanied by singing. Again to-night I went to their festival and with Pungawa witnessed much dancing called "ber-egal" and returned to the prahn after midnight.