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Celebes y and another ifland, may probably have been the infula 

 Satyrorum of Ptolemy. 



The Ourang Qutang is found alfo in Java\ Hamilton^" faw 

 one in that illand which was four feet high, and mentions a 

 fmaller fpecies called Oumpaes. He confirms the account of the 

 grave or melancholy habit of the greater fpecies; of its lighting a 

 fire, and blowing it with its mouth ; and of its broiling a fifli 

 to eat with its boiled rice, imitative of the cuftom of the human 

 race. 



The aborigines of Borneo are called Byajos ; they inhabit the Bvajos, 

 interior parts, live under chieftains, and are an independent 

 i:)eopIe, poffefling their proper language and religion ; the lad is 

 called Faganifin^ yet they pay no refpe6t to idols ; but offer fa- 

 crifices of fweet fcented wood to one fupreme beneficent Deitv, 

 who in other worlds rewards the juft and punifhes the wicked. 

 They marry only one wife, are flriilly faithful to their nuptial 

 vows, and have the character of general honefty. Mr. Beeckman 

 makes a different report, but fairly confefTes that he received it 

 from the Banjareens, who will not fuffer the Europeans to 

 have any intercourfe with the natives, and tell many frightful 

 tales of their barbarity. The Byajos often come down the 

 river to the port of Majfeen^ in ill fhaped praws, with gold duft, 

 diamonds, rattans, bezoar, and other articles of commerce, of 

 which the Banjareens are fole fad:ors, and confequently highly 

 interefted in keeping the pretended favages from our knowlege. 



The Byajos are taller and flronger than the other inhabitants ; 

 they go naked, excepting a fmall wrapper about their loins; 



• Account of the Eajl Indies^ ii. p. 131. 



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