After the end of the thirteen days mourning, they all begin to chew betel, and to eat flesh and fish as formerly, the new king alone excepted.

" At first Tuglay did not want to take it; but the next day, when the Moglung again offered the betel, he accepted it from her and began to chew.

" Then the Buso-man replied sadly, "I used to have a wife named Moglung, who was the best of all the bia; but when I went looking for the Malaki Tuangun, that other Bia made me dizzy, and gave me betel, and combed my hair.

" As soon as the Bia had finished preparing the betel, she took the (screaming?) katakia from the Malaki, and set it on the floor.

I stood up and thanked him, received the betel, and went out.

Then Tuglay rubbed the chewed betel on the great Buso's throat.

The king had likewise a gold bason on a golden stand, into which he spat out the betel when chewed; and a gold fountain with water for washing his mouth.

But when she had pressed it upon him many times, he took the betel and chewed it.

Divided into small pieces, it is placed in the center of a small ball made of the tender leaves of the buyo or betel pepper, lightly covered with slacked lime, and this composition constitutes the celebrated betel of Asia, or, as it is here called, the buyo, the latter differing from that used in India, inasmuch only as it contains cardamomom.

RANGANA.A small and very pretty red flower which is used by native females in ornamenting their betels.