And Three Days Afterwards The Rajah Summoned The Priests And The
Princes And The Chief Men Of Mataram, To Hear What The Great
Spirit Had Told Him On The Top Of The Mountain.
And when they
were all assembled, and the betel and sirih had been handed
round, he told them what had happened.
On the top of the mountain
he had fallen into a trance, and the great spirit had appeared to
him with a face like burnished gold, and had said - "0h Rajah! much
plague and sickness and fevers are coming upon all the earth,
upon men and upon horses and upon cattle; but as you and your
people have obeyed me and have come up to my great mountain, I
will teach you how you and all the people of Lombock may escape
this plague." And all waited anxiously, to hear how they were to
be saved from so fearful a calamity. And after a short silence
the Rajah spoke again and told them, that the great spirit had
commanded that twelve sacred krisses should be made, and that to
make them every village and every district must send a bundle of
needles - a needle for every head in the village. And when any
grievous disease appeared in any village, one of the sacred
krisses should be sent there; and if every house in that village
had sent the right number of needles, the disease would
immediately cease; but if the number of needles sent had not been
exact, the kris would have no virtue.
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