258 OCCASIONAL NOTE. 



The Sepoy in British India calls his uniform urdi, i. e., the dress 

 which he has to wear by regulation.* 



M. Marre is quite right when he tells M. Deyic that burong 

 ular and burong hambing do not mean oiseau des serpents and 

 oiseau des clievres, but oiseau-serpent and oiseau-clievre. His cor- 

 rection of the proffered translation of ber-budak is equally sound. 

 But why he finds M. Devic's translation of niaris lepas deri 

 tang an to be stupt'fiante is not so clear. The passage quoted evi- 

 dently means that the prince narrowly escaped dying of his illness. 

 Malay abounds with figurative expressions regarding death. 



Neither of the disputants can suggest the real meaning of hain 

 manchong. M, Deyic says that manchong is equivalent to pancltong 

 and means a garment cut in a point. M. Marre gives manchong 

 up, and proposes to read ber-kain panjang. The phrase is descrip- 

 tive of a particular mode of wearing the sarong. Ber-kain man- 

 chong signifies to wear the sarong caught up short on the right 

 side and long on the left with one end hanging down in front. It 

 is considered a sign of ostentation. It is incorrect to confuse man- 

 chong with munchong, as M. Marre does. Muncliong means the 

 snout or muzzle of an animal, e. g. } of a pig or dog. If applied to 

 the human nose, it means "protruding," not necessarily " aquiline." 

 Eavke and Klinkert have misunderstood a phrase in which the 

 word occurs. (Malay Proverbs, Supra, p. 81, No. 269.) 



I have not referred to the Sajarah Malayu to consult the text 

 which the expression limau mangkar occurs. M. Deyic does not 

 find mangkar in Fayre's dictionary, and suggests that it may be the 

 name of a country. M. Marre rejects this idea, and prefers to 

 regard the word as a description of a particular variety of limau. It 

 would not need a great stretch of the imagination to suppose that, 

 by a clerical error, mangkar might have been written for mangkasar, 

 Macassar, and, if this is allowable, here is the name of a country 

 at M. Deyic's service. But mangkar (cf. mangkaX) as applied to 

 fruit, has a meaning of its own ; durian mangkar is a durian which, 

 though to all appearances ripe, is hard and uneatable inside. Limau 



* Warcli is found in Shakespear's Hindustani Dictionary and there said 

 to be derived from the English and to mean "word, order." 



