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property vested in ae Sultan over the soil of the country, and 
the right to dispose of the same, as well as of the rights over 
the productions of the country, whether mineral, vegetable, or 
animal, with the rights of making laws, coining money, creat- 
ing an army and navy, levying customs rates on home and 
foreign trade and shipping, and other dues and taxes on the 
inhabitants as to him might seem good or expedient, together 
with all other powers and rights usually exercised by and be- 
longing to sovereign rulers, and which the Sultan thereby 
delegated to him of his own free will; and the Sultan called 
upon all foreign nations, with whom he had formed friendly 
treaties and alliances, to acknowledge the said Maharaja as 
the Sultan himself in the said territories and to respect his 
authority therein; and in the case of the death or retirement 
from the said office of the said Maharaja, then his duly ap- 
pointed successor in the office of Supreme Ruler and Governor- 
in-Chief of the Company’s territories in Borneo should like- 
wise succeed to the office and titleof Maharaja of Sabah and 
Raja of Gaya and Sandakan, and all the powers above enu- 
merated be vested in him.” [am quoting from the preamble 
to the Royal Charter. Some explanation of the term “Sa- 
bah” as applied to the territory—a term which appears in the 
Prayer Book version of the 72nd Psalm, verse 10, ‘“The kings 
of Arabia and Sabah shall bring gifts’’—seems called for, but I 
regretto say Ihave notbeen able to obtain a satisfactory one from 
the Branai people, who use it in connection only with a small 
portion of the West Coast of Borneo, North of the Brunai 
river. Perhaps the following note, which I take from Mr. W. 
E. MAXWELL’S “ Manual ofthe Malay Language,” may have 
some slight bearing on the point :—“ Sawa, Jawa, Saba, Jaba, 
Zaba, etc., has evidently in all times been the capital local 
name in Indonesia. The whole archipelago was pressed into 
anisland of that name by the Hindus and Romans. Even 
in the time of MARCO POLO we have only a Java Major 
and a Java Minor. The Bugis apply the name of Jawa, Fa- 
waka (comp. the Polynesian Sawazkz, Ceramese Sawaz) to the 
Moluccas. One of the principal divisions of Battaland in Su- 
matra is called Zanah Jawa. PTOLEMY has both Jaba and Sa- 
ba.” —“‘ Logan, Journ. Ind. Arch., iv, 338.” In the Brunai use of 
