112 THE EtfDAU AND ITS TKIJBU TAE.IES. 



Koyal Asiatic Society, No. 2, p. 220, and footnote) Mac lay mentions 

 Tandiong (tanjong?) G-enteng on the Kahang river as the old seat? 

 according to Jdkun tradition, of the Eaja Benua, and says that "it 

 " was merely a large plain, clear of all trees close to the river." He 

 also suggests burning the lalang (wild grass) and jungle with a view 

 to a search for tools, arms and coins : but he was evidently told no- 

 thing about rains. Mel ax was much crossquestioned on the subject 

 by myself as well as Che Musa and Cue Ma' Ali, but adhered 

 strictly to his statement about the ruins. During the various vi- 

 cissitudes of the Johor dynasty, the sovereigns, according to tradi- 

 tion, sometimes took refuge in the interior of Johor, Avhen they did 

 not go as far as Pahang, and these ruins may be the remains of 

 some such asylum. The Jakuns state that their line of Bajas, i.e., 

 Eaja Benua, is descended from the Malays in this way; that a queen 

 of Johor, having been obliged by her enemies to nee into the in- 

 terior, remained there and wedded a Jakun chief, their progeny 

 assuming the title of Eaja "Beniiak," as they themselves call it. 



It is not impossible that this tradition may be well-founded, 

 a royal caprice would, under such circumstances, have little to res- 

 train it, whether before or after Mahomedan days. 



The short time I spent in the company of members of the Madek 

 community, sufficiently accounts for the meagre information I was 

 able to gather from them, especially as to their dialect, of which 

 specimens could only be found few and far between, scattered 

 throughout the general body of Malay, which is now their native 

 tongue. Of the hundred words given in the Vocabulary prepared 

 1 >y the Society for the collectors of dialects, most have only Malay 

 equivalents, pronounced with that broad and sometimes slightly 

 nasal accent which characterises all the Jalcuns I have met. I 

 have inserted a few of them in the table, to illustrate the difference 

 between their pronunciation and that of the ordinary Malay. 

 Curiously enough the Society's vocabulary omits the " tiger " from 

 its list, 



Man IJrang (Malay " Orang.") 



Woman "Betinak," and "Amei" (The latter the 



ordinary mode of addressing women of 

 middle or more advanced age ; the 



