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SSdek Sejok (Malay) Cold 



Ke-eng Sini (Malay) Here, hither 



Me-et Juhut Raw, green (in taste) 



Further investigation would, no doubt, bring this out more clearly. 



A reference to Maclay's "Dialects of the Orang Hutan of Johor " 

 and "of the Mixed Tribes of the Orang Hutan of the Interior " 

 (Journal of the Straits Branch of the Eoyal Asiatic Society, No. 1, 

 Juty, 1878, pp. 41, 42, and 44) shews only two words common to 

 his and my lists — " Mbai," father, in the Seinbrong dialect, and 

 " Amei," woman, in the Madek dialect. I went through Maclay's 

 lists with both the tribes, but these were the only words they re- 

 cognised ; of the others they professed complete ignorance. In his 

 paper (already referred to, p. 40) Maclay says : "I found it im- 

 " possible to ascertain sufficiently the number and limitation of the 

 " different dialects. That more have existed is probable. I have 

 "arranged, somewhat arbitrarily, the following words into two 

 ''dialects. I have onty noted down (as said before) those words 

 " which appeared to me not Malay/' And in a note to the foregoing 

 paragraph he further says : " As the Orang Hutan are nomads, it 

 " appears to me quite immaterial to specify the place in which I 

 " have taken down the words." 



It is certainly to be regretted that M. Maclay did not give what- 

 ever information he had gained regarding the number and limita- 

 tion of the dialects, however incomplete. The plan of " arbitrary 

 arrangement " leaves us quite in the dark as to whether the dialects 

 given come from North, South, or Central Johor. It is true that 

 the "Orang Hutan" arc nomads, but only within their own dis- 

 tricts, the intrusion into which, for any purpose other than mere 

 thoroughfare, by members of another tribe, is greatly resented, 

 and sometimes leads to quarrels, which are so rare amongst these 

 people. The insertion of the place where the words were taken 

 down would have shewn to which tribe the people belonged. 



There still appear to be several words in M. Maclay's list which 

 are — some certainly, others possibly — of Malay origin ; of the first 

 class are the following 



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Mouth Bibir (Malay for " lips," part for the whole.) 



