250 THE ORANG LAUT OF SINGAPORE. 



(2). The use of undoubted Sakai words ; of these Koyok 

 Kiijan, and Kiyim are all words allied to those used by the 

 Belandas tribe in Selangor. 



(3.) The Sakai "terumba" or racial records as preserved 

 by the Besisi tribe in the Kwala Langat district (Selangor), 

 which explicitly state that the ancestors of the original tribe 

 descended to the sea and became sea-folk (lurun kalaut jadi 

 raiat laut) and that the sea-folk became pirates (Raiat laut jadi 

 Bajau). 



Further investigations when opportunities occur may supply 

 more extensive information as to these wild tribes, now so near- 

 ly vanished. The foregoing notes, incomplete as they are, show 

 that there are still some records worth the attention of any who 

 have the chance of studying the race, and research in the district 

 of Selitar and Pandan, where the tribe, as late as 1847, were in 

 a very primitive state of civilisation, and in the Carimons, and 

 neighbouring islands, may throw more light on the history and 

 relationship of the Orang Laut. 



W. W. Skeat. 

 H. X. Ridley. 



