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to see me on board thejalor; he is a fine-looking man, powerfully 

 built, very dark, and speaks Malay, like the rest of his race, with 

 a very broad accent, but there is something pleasing in their into- 

 nation, which seems, in a way, to suggest their natural simplicity of 

 character. He promised me men with a smaller jalor to take me 

 further up the stream, which grows too small for our boat, next 

 day. Later, I visited him at his own house, a good-sized one, raised 

 about six feet from the ground, in a kamporig 200 or 300 yards from 

 the river, and tried to extract a vocabulary of his native dialect 

 from him. but it was a failure, with the exception of the following- 

 words : — 



English. 



Woman 

 Father 

 Ant 

 Dog- 

 Elephant 

 Mosquito 

 Cocoauut 

 Honey 

 Yesterday 

 Cold 

 Come 

 Here 



Sembrong. 



Betinak 0) 





Embei 





Meret 





Koyok 





Pechem besar 





Rengit ( 2 ) 





Niu (») 





Manisan lebah 



(*) 



Kemaghik ( 3 ) 





Sedek 





Kia 





Ke-eng 





( x ) Malay with "k" added. "Betina" in Malay means properly 

 the female of animals, " Ferampuan " being used to designate 

 womankind, but "Betina" is often used in place of it. 



( a ) In Malay, a small fresh-water shell. 



( 3 ) Malay "Nior." 



( * ) Malay periphrasis. 



( 8 ) Malay " Kelmarin," 



