Show V monument t to 0 a lie A correspondent of the budget ol 01 0 tho the straits settlement says while other nations build monuments to the memory ot of men who have done great and noble deeda deeds the diaks neap up a pile of the branches of trees in memory of the man who has uttered a great lie so that future generations may know of bis his wicked ness noss and take warning from it tho the persona persons deceived start the dugong bula by heaping up a large number of ranches anches ih some conspicuous spot bj b tho the side of the main road every passerby contributes to it and at the same time curses the man mar in memory of whom it Is tho the diaks consider the adding to any dugong bula they nay may pass a sacred duty the 1 ion of which will meet with eup sup latoral ao 10 ment and no hoener bo eor pressed for or time a dyak may bo be he stops to throw on the pile some br branches or twigs this custom dates from very an dent times it Is interesting to no tico tice that though the ethics of the diaks even at the present day do not abreo in many points with the moral code of ether and more ad danced races still from the earliest ages tho the danks eem seem to have agreed in considering a lie ile a most fill crime and a liar a man who do serves the curses not only of his own generation but also of people yet unborn A diw small branches a few dry twigs and loaves leaves that Is what the dugong bula la Is at first but day by day it increases in size every t y ad ie Is something to it and in a few years timo onto it becomes a large and Imp imposing using monument raised to th the memory of one who waa was a liar by it has often bein remarked by diaks that any other punishment ft if a man had his choice be much preferred to having a dugong bula put up in bis his memory other punishments ish ments are soon forgotten but a dugong remains AS a testimony to a mans untruthfulness for succeeding gener generations atlon to witness and ts a standing disgrace to his childrens children believing as the diaks do in the efficacy of curses a curso among them being a finable affonse it la Is eay eavy to understand how bow a dyak would dread the accumulation of curses thich would necessarily accompany the ho formation of a dugong bula |