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Bubuai, a variety of Rattan, cornmon in young jungle, but not fit for any use, as it 

 soon dries and snaps. Calamus maximus. 



Bubueuk, the round bambu circlet for the head, in native Tudungs or hats. 



Bubulian, district, departement. 



Bubui, to cook by thrusting among bot ashes. 



Bubuk, a small worm which eats and destroys bambus after they have been cut. They 

 eat through the tubes and cause them moulder away and be unfit for use. 



Bubuk, smashed, crushed to pieces. Anything ground or pounded fine. Bubuk kopi, 

 Coffee ground for using. 



Bubulak, grazing ground, ground where the grass is short cropped. 



Bubur, Pap, rice or any other grain boiled well down till it is soft and watery, and 

 beino; then mixed with su<rar, is so eaten. Poultice for a wound. 



Bubur ak, to chace out of any place, out of a field or forest; to drive impetuously be- 

 fore one. To hunt wild animals with dogs. 



Buburuh, to take wages to do any work; to work for wages. Buburuh nyatu, di upah 

 béas , taking pay for eating , he is still rewarded with rice : a Sunda proverb , for doing 

 every thing to the best advantage. 



Bubut, to turn wood or metal on a lathe. Tukang bubut, a Turner. 



Bubutut, to go out in night time to take fish; the fish so caught is immediately broiled 

 and eaten by the river side. 



Bubuwahan, fruits of various kincis. Fruïts collectively. (See bubuahan). 



Buchak, muddy , dirty, mud sticking to the feet. (Batavian Malay béchek). 



Buda, Buddha; a name still retained by the Sunda people without any precise meaning, 

 since they have become Mohamedans. They however still talk of Alam Buda , Bud- 

 dhist times , as of an almost fabulous time , to which no definite meaning can attach. 

 As a remnant of their old faith they still retain the Buddhist names for the days of 

 the week, where Buda represents Wednesday, as in India. Itis not, however, every 

 man who can enumerate these days of the week ; only some of the more knowing. See 

 Dité. Buda, C. 475, the planet Mercury. It may be useful to copy over here what 

 Clough gives at Page 475. Budha from Buclha to know ; the name of the founder of 

 Buddhism, the religion which is professed by the Singhalese part of the populatïon of 

 Ceylon , the Burman empire , and several other nations of the East ; a sage , a wise 

 or learned man ; a philosopher ; any eminent or deified teacher. Great confusion has 

 taken place among Sanscrit writers and the Europeans who have foliowed them , by 

 confounding Buddha which is a generic name for a wise man, a philosopher, with 

 Buddha (Gautama) the son of Suddhodana, and the founder of the religion which goes 

 by his name (30). 



(30) A similar confusion exists of Buddha, the planet Mercury, and the Buddha, the quite human 



