You have lasted the palm-wine
As well as hemp-juice.
You are drunk with the palm-wine
As well as hemp-juice.
You are fairly delirious!
And utterly distracted!
Bending your body
And leaping like a roe-buck,
Jumping like prawn-fry,
You are thoroughly overcome!
Leap now your loftiest,
And bound like the sambhur
Sway from this side to that,
Oscillate to and fro,
Bowing to the left hand,
To the right hand bowing."
At the end of the performance an incantation was chaunted, in order to cause the spirits to return to the place whence they came out:
"Ye who came from the crags return to your crags,
Ye who came from the hills return to your hills,
Ye who came from the plains return to your plains.
And let not one of you lose the road.
Let not one of you lose the footpath.
Ye who came from the palace return to your palace,
Ye who came from hut-rooms return to your hut-rooms.
And let not one of you mistake your palace.
Let not one of you mistake your hut-rooms.
Return now each of you. return now all of you.
Little ones, tiny ones, and old and young ones,
Lame and halt, and blind and eyeless.
Return now each of you, return now all of you,
And let not one of you stray or wander,
But urge each other to return in a body.
Listen, O listen, to my injunctions,
Listen, O listen, to my instructions,
And if you hearken not to my instructions,
You shall be rebels in the sight of Allah,
But may I be cool as the sacred serpent!"
Of the Dancing-Spoon of the Malays we are told in Primitive Culture, ii., 152: "Mr. Darwin saw two
