TWO SEA-DYAK LEGENDS. 29 



Note. 



Ori receiving the above legends from Mr. Gomes I pointed 

 out to him the curious fact that in the first legend the tiger — a 

 beast quite unknown in Borneo — plays a prominent part, and sug- 

 gested that this story may have been of Malay origin. He replies 

 by referring to A. II. Everett's paper on the Tiger in Borneo, in 

 Journal 5, p. 157, and says "the 'Tree-tiger' Felts marmorata 

 is common enough. The Dyaks call it by a distinctive name 

 'Kemaung dau' or 'Kemaung raras' (dau and raras both being 

 words meaning the branch of a tree). These would lead one to 

 suppose that at one time they knew of some other species they 

 called simply ' Kemaung.' " Everett refers to traditions of the 

 animal also, among the Sea Dyaks. One may compare these 

 traditions of an animal apparently absent from the country with 

 those of the Mias (Maw as) of the Malay peninsula. 



//. iV. Ridley. 



R. A. Soc. No. 41, 19ns. 



