250 THE ORANG LAUT OF SINGAPORE. 
(2) The use of undoubted Sakai words; of these K е 
iyan, and Kiyun are all words allied to those used by t 
Belandas ho in Selangor. 
8. e Sakai ‘‘terumba” or racial records as preserved 
by the Bast tribe in the Kwala Langat district (Selangor), 
which gy! state that the ancestors of the original tribe 
descended to the sea and became sea-folk (/urun kalaut jadi 
akah T and that the sea-folk became pirates (Raiat laut jadi 
ajau). 
Further investigations when opportunities occur may supply 
more extensive information as to these wild tribes, now so near- 
ly vanished. The foregoing notes, incomplete as they are, show 
that there are still some records worth the attention of any who 
have the chance of studying the race, and research in the district 
of Selitar and Pandan, where the tribe, as late as 1847, were in 
a very primitive state of civilisation, and in the Carimons, and 
eighbouring prins may throw morelight on the history and 
отыр of the Orang Laut 
W. W. Skeat. 
Н. N, Ridley. 
