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lection and comparison of aboriginal dialects and pantang Icdpur, 

 may, I think, be accepted as sufficiently confirming my view of tho 

 matter. 



M. Mikluiio-Maclay also regards the pantang Mpur as being 

 a relic of the old aboriginal tongue (Journal No. 1. Straits 

 Branch of the Eoyal Asiatic Societ}^ July, 1878, p.p. 39-40), 

 dissenting from the view of Logan, who seems to look upon it 

 as having been manufactured expressly in accordance with the 

 superstition, for he says (Journal of the Indian Archipelago, A^ol. I., 

 p. 263) " whoever may have been the originator of this super- 

 " stition, it is evidently based on the fact that although camphor 

 " trees are abundant, it very frequently happens that no camphor 

 " can be obtained from them." " AYere it otherwise," ' said an old 

 Beniia, who was singularly free from superstitions of any kind, 

 " camphor is so valuable that not a single full-grown tree would 

 "be left in the forest." Logan mentions the eating of earth as a 

 concomitant of the use of pantang Icdpur ; another sacrifice 

 required by this superstition is the complete abstention, while in 

 search of camphor, from bathing or washing. These accompani- 

 ments of the superstition may be considered perhaps to bear against 

 the theory I have advocated, but without them the pantang 

 Icdpur would hardly be complete, and they would readily be sug- 

 gested by the poyangs, to whose cunning and influence over the 

 Malays, Logan bears striking testimony. I have myself observed 

 the complete belief the latter have in their powers, the Malays at 

 Kwala Madek, for instance, asserted of the JCiro-krah resident there. 

 that he used to walk round the hampong at night and drive away 

 the tigers without any weapons. 



At this place, Kampong Kenalau, I found a clearing, but no culti- 

 vation ; on asking the reason, I was told they were too busy get- 

 ting rattans for the Malays, which they do at a fixed, price in rice 

 and other articles, such as clothing, crockeiw, parangs, salt, and 

 tobacco. They have become Malays as to dress as well as in lan- 

 guage. 



One young girl rather amused my men by the affectation of con- 

 cealing her face with her Icain tildong Icepala after the Malay 

 fashion ; the}' likewise imitate the Malays in the occasional intro- 

 duction of an Allah into their conversation, but they have no 



