"When you first meet with the spoor of elephant or rhinoceros, observe whether the foot-hole contains any dead wood, (then) take the twig of dead wood, together with a ball of earth as big as a maize-cob taken from the same foot-hole (if there is only one of you, one ball will do, if there are three of you, three balls will be wanted, if seven, seven balls, but not more). Then roll up your ball of earth and the twig together in a tree-leaf, breathe upon it, and recite the charm (for blinding the elephant's eyes), the purport of which is that if the quarry sees, its eyesight shall be destroyed, and if it looks, its eyesight shall be dimmed, by the help of God, the prophet, and the medicine-man, who taught the charm. "Now slip your ball of earth into your waistband just over the navel, and destroy the scent of your body and your gun. To do this, take a bunch of certain leaves [284] (daun sa-cherek), together with stem-leaves of the betel-vine (kerapak sirih), leaves of the wild camphor (chapa), and leaves of the club-gourd (labu ayer puteh), break their midribs with your left hand, shut your eyes, and say 'As these tree leaves smell, so may my body (and gun) be scented.' "When the animal is dead, beat it with an end of black cloth, repeating the charm for driving away the 'mischief' (badi) from the carcase, which charm runs as follows:-- "Badiyu, Mother of Mischief, Badi Panji, Blind Mother, I know the origin from which you sprang, [285] Three drops of Adam's blood were the origin from which you sprang, Mischief of Earth, return to Earth, Mischief of Ant-heap, return to Ant-heap, Mischief of Elephant, return to Elephant, [286] Mischief of Wood, return to Wood, Mischief of Water, return to Water, Mischief of Stone, return to Stone And injure not my person. By the virtue of my Teacher, You may not injure the children of the race of Man." The perquisites of the Pawang (magician) are to be "a little black cloth and a little white cloth," and the only special taboo mentioned by Lebai Jamal was "on no account to let the naked skin rub against the skin of the slain animal." Before leaving the subject of elephants, I may add that Raja Ja`far (of Beranang in Selangor) told me that Lebai Jamal, when charged by an elephant or rhinoceros, would draw upon the ground with his finger a line which the infuriated animal was never able to cross. This line, he said, was called the Baris Laksamana, or the "Admiral's Line," and the knowledge of how to draw it was naturally looked upon as a great acquisition. The Tiger