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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 ; freeboot- 

 ers in every sense, and ready to aid in the oppression of their 

 kindred race inhabiting the interior. Both are nationally 

 denominated Dyaks, are fairer than the Malays, and most 

 likely allied to the Joasmees before noticed. They are of the 

 Horafoura stem, also marine adventurers, who, having for ages 

 frequented the north coast of New Holland, have certainly 

 caused a further hybridism among the Papuas of that region, 

 and are themselves the most mixed branch of Indo-Caucasians 

 in Australasia, with a language and religious notions originally 

 unconnected with any Malay source. The tribes of Borneo, 

 here enumerated, are evidently older possessors of the soil 

 than the Malays, and the most ancient in these seas excepting 

 the Eastern Negroes, who may be regarded as absorbed by them 

 in this great island, since none of the purely woolly-haired 

 stock are now known to remain in the country. 



Celebes is principally inhabited by the Boun, Bouginee, 

 Buges, or Bugesses, of which one nation is called the Macas- 

 sar, and the whole appear to be of the same stem as the Hora- 

 fouras. Here they are again fairer than the Malays, with 

 very long black hair, and soft silky beards and whiskers. 

 Their original language, more allied to southern dialects of 

 India, with the admixture of Sanscrit, is now much corrupted 

 by the Malayan. The women of this island are the hand- 

 somest and most polished of the eastern seas, setting the fash- 

 ions which other nations strive to imitate ; and a more 

 advanced civilization is shown in several articles of their man- 

 ufacture, which are carried in native vessels as far as Fort 

 Cornwallis. The male population are mercantile resolute sea- 



