Note 311 — Chapter V · Magic Rites connected with the Several Departments of Nature (continued 2)

Similarly, the Dugong (Malay duyong) is asserted by some Malays to have sprung from the remains of a pig, which Muhammad himself dined off before he pronounced pork to be the accursed thing. Being cast by the Prophet into the sea, it revived and took the shape of the dugong, in which shape it is still to be found off the coast of Lukut and Port Dickson, where it feeds upon sea-grass (rumput sĕtul), in common with a species of small tripang or bêche-de-mer.311