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minant ; for the oldest population was a race of Negro 

 cannibals, termed Gunos, who were assailed and driven 

 into the mountain fastnesses, by a nautical people, the 

 real Javanese, under the command of their legendary 

 hero, Passara. Now this name, as well as Javana, 

 i.e. mixed, a mixed people, are both of Sanscrit origin, 

 and show that the invaders were Indo-Caucasians, with 

 perhaps only a mixture of Mongolic, that is, Malay 

 blood : the oldest religious edifices are of Indian cha- 

 racter; and from names, such as Pen-y-gawa for a 

 chief; Kralon, a palace; Sasakadom, a hall or temple, 

 might indicate a branch of Pandoo wanderers, Go- 

 merians, allied to the Pelasgian and Celtic tribes of the 

 west ; a conjecture further s.xengthened by the Morai 

 pyramid of Suka before mentioned. The Javanese ap- 

 pear to have sent colonists to Madagascar, since known 

 by the name of Jacalvas, who similarly waged war 

 against the cannibal Anachimous, and were for many 

 ages noted marine pirates, distinct from the Joasmees, 

 who are of Arabian origin. 



Further east, in the island of Borneo, where true 

 Malays have the ascendency, but only reside on the 

 coasts, there is another people distinct from them, 

 partly sedentary, and in part exclusively nautical. 

 These are the Orang Darrah and Orang Laut, men of 

 the soil and men of the sea, one maintaining an unequal 

 struggle against the Malays, and the other pirates from 

 birth, and always residing on board their proas ; free- 

 booters in every sense, and ready to aid in the oppres- 

 sion of their kindred race inhabiting the interior. Both 



