During the three days following, the people prepare two large rafts, of canoe shape, and equip them with sails of palm leaf, dry palm leaf torches, and bunches of "devil-expelling" leaves. This work is done by the young men and women, the _tamiluanas_ and other elderly people being engaged, meanwhile, in singing by turns, through night and day, in one of the houses at _Elpanam_. The _tamiluanas_ frequently come down and walk along the beach with their exorcising rods, and forbid the devil to enter the village. The fourth day is called _Yintovna Síya_--expelling the devil by sails. In the evening, the whole of the village assembles at _Elpanam_ with bunches of "devil-expelling" leaves, the women with baskets of ashes in addition. A number of men, with an escort of _tamiluanas_, carry one of the floats to the sea, on the right side of the cemetery, and propel it some distance from the shore; when they return, another body of men despatches the other craft from the left side of the graveyard. The bearers, on reaching shore, are supplied with bundles of leaves, and as soon as the vessels reach deep water, the women throw ashes from the shore, and the whole crowd shouts, "Fly away, devil, fly away, never come again." Then all the decorated bamboos are removed, one after another, and all the leaves thrown into the sea; from each bamboo, as it is taken down, the devil is expelled. Should the canoes sail off toward Chaura, much rejoicing is occasioned. One seems to contain an evil, the other a benignant spirit. The latter may possibly return and inform the _tamiluanas_ that the devil has reached Chaura, and in token of this, there will be found near the graveyard a new Chaura pot, a chicken, a paddle, or similar objects. If this occurs, there is a day of rejoicing, called _Amhai_, when pigs and fowls are offered as a sacrifice to the conquering spirit, and a grand feast and dance take place at night. This is an annual ceremony, commemorated in turn by all the village, but unfortunately, as with their other customs and ceremonies, the islanders, whose knowledge of their origin is limited, can give no clear reason for its inception, although there must be a perfectly adequate one, and state only that they do it because it is "custom." Festivals called _Maya_ and _Inturga_ are also commemorated to drive the jungle devils into the sea. One of the most effectual means of _exorcising devils_ is by fanning with leaves. The M[=u]s racing canoe, having returned to the village soon after a death had taken place there, was not received in the usual manner. Two elderly men who were on the beach, waiting, ran down before the canoe could touch the shore, and hurriedly brushed it, and the men in it, with brooms. They then brought the canoe ashore, and fanned it with coco-palm leaves, so that the dead man's ghost might not take possession.