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The shield is transferred to the left hand, and ' they circle wildly with swift swaying movements, mysterious poses,
and fierce Baris faces. Crying, they shake their weapons against each other and close in a lightning battle, driving one another off the ground.

After the series of Baris performed by men and boys, a great procession of all the
people moved up and down the temple steps and through the courts: the dancers, the offering-bearers, and the shrines of the gods, one containing the flayed head of a buffalo which had been among the offerings on the great table before the high altar.

Suddenly a nun in the front rank began to go into trance. He was the scribe of the headman of Koeboe, a village alone the coast, and famous as a permade or medium. Immediately there was a great crying and shouting and clapping of hands, fire-crackers were set off, and hands waved wildly upwards, calling on the god to decened into the medium. The medium too lifted his arms and rocked to and . Then he was raised up and dressed in white and black check, with a head-cloth of the same, and a scarf crossed over his chest. Supported by two men, he was carried round and round the table of offerings, tottering along, his outstretched arms waving to and fro. A procession moved with him, with loud noise of gamelan and voices. Now the crowd has formed again in the centre of the great court, this time in a hollow square. 'Me permad4 on trembling feet dances irresolutely forward with out- spread arms into the middle of the space.

The offerings are handed to him one by one and he swings forward, throwing them to the crowd, who rush towards him, especially the little boys, to snatch at what they can. (This is called Prang Ketipat.) If the offering is too heavy to be thrown he gives it intact, and it is distributed. Next he is helped up the steps of a high bale, on which sit the pemangkoes. He is sat leaning against a pillar, and remains with his arms outspread during what follows. Along two sides of the square offering-bowls are spread, called pelaoesan, from the ginger-like root which must form one of the ingredients. From them the dance which follows is called Mao son. A man takes a palm-leaf at one end of the row and dances with it with great agility to a perpetually recurring melody in the gamelan.

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