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RELIGION, SUPERSTITIONS, ETC. 



Tliout^li the people were very friendly, no account of their i-eligious 

 beliefs could be obtained, and most pi-obaldy they have none. The 

 bodies of the dead wei-e said to be buried, and water, food and papaya 

 fruit placed on the grave. 



It is forbidden to mention the names of father-in-law, mother-in- 

 law, brother-in-law or sister-in-law. 



LANGUAGE. 

 The dialect spoken on the Retang river people seems to come 

 under the division called Eastern Sakai by Skeat. There are many 

 words of Malayo or Malayo-Polynesian origin in the vocabulary 

 and several which are not found in the comparative vocabulary in 

 Skeat's Pagan Races. Among these are " tiwok," (fever) ; 

 " rek-rek," (cough) ; " idut," (mother) ; " kesir," (husband) ; 

 "krakun" or " krakoin," (woman); and " mahong," (wind). 



VOCABULARIES. 



