208 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [VoLix., 
klawang. Asal kebeurk klawong. 
kenuwak. Origin fruits henuwak. 
“Carry on your hands the kenuwak fruit. Spinning, spin- 
ning, carry on your hands the kenuwak. Origin of fruits is 
the kenuwak.’’ I did not ascertain the name of the Chinoi 
who is supposed to be speaking. 
Minyun, menawu tapag, 
Shake up and down, bending down _ leaf pinnae, 
ngabag. 
chant magical chants. 
‘‘ Shaking up and down, bending down the leaf pinnae of the 
palm, I chant magical chants.’’ It is the Chinoi Buyok, the 
Pandanus,! or Screw-palm, Chinoi, who is supposed to be 
speaking. Ngabag is said to be a Chinoi word. 
A, gantong jon perungss,- eh, 
Father, suspend — spin turn, father, 
gantong. 
suspend. 
‘* Father, suspend, spin and turn (the comb), father, suspend 
it!’ It is the Chinoi Buyok who is supposed to be speaking. 
Sibeh*®  menang bedlad keping galong 
Attach thread go above cross-bar 
lel (bridge) 
spin 
jutkat keping chanang* yoh belang * 
bring down above plate mine near 
Langyau, 
Langyau. 
No satisfactory translation of the above was obtained, but it 
may mean something like this :— 
““T, Langyau attaching the thread, go above the bridge 
and spinning bring it down(?) above my plate.” It is the 
Chinoi Langyau, a male Chinoi, who lives near Ligoi, who is 
speaking. Chanang is said to be Chinoi talk. 
Yamun deng un, os deng, kasau 
I @) see there, I see, rafter 
! The species of Pinions which the sedans call scp 
2 The Malay word sangkut, ‘‘to attach” was given as rl equivalent 
of stbeh. 
: C.f., perhaps, the Malay word chénang, a kind of gon 
Malays, in speaking, often use the word dehkat ( eae instead of 
aeete (to). 
