118 THE E2JDAU AND ITS TRIBUTARIES. 



Leg Betit, liitat ("betis " and " liitut " Malay for call" of 



leg and knee, respectively.) 



Two Dua 



Moon 



Bulatnali (corrupt form of Malay " bulan.") 



Under the second I would place 



Sun Matbri, tonkat (Malay " tongkat.") 



Head Bubon (Malay " ubon-ubon.") 



Eyes Med. mot, padingo (Malay " mata," " penengok " 



from " tengok," to see.) 



Stomach Lopot (Malay '"prut/' by metathesis ?) 

 hi "matbri" we have " mat ."=" mata" e}*e, "bri" eiiher the word 

 in the list for " forest " or a corrupt form of " hari." 



Whether "tonkat." or " tongkat" which means "walking stick" 

 in Malay, is more than a mere coincidence is a matter for conjec- 

 ture. 



" Bubon " is, in all probability, a contraction from the Malay, 

 " iibon-ubon," the crown of the head : " liban" is grey hairs. 



•' Med *' and " mot " are probably different forms of " mata," the 

 eye: while '"padingo" suggests the idea that it derives from the 

 Malay " tengok," being a corrupt form of the verbal substantive 

 "penengok" which is the equivalent for "eye" in pantang ledpur. 



[If Maclay was careful to distinguish, when collecting words, 

 between the old dialect and the pantang ledpur, the occurrence 

 in a list, purporting to belong to the former, of words formed from 

 Malayan epithets, is a strong argument in favour of the latter being 

 a relic of it.] 



The Madek tribe, with the exception of that portion which re- 

 moved recently to Simgei Mas on the Upper Endau, seems to be con- 

 fined to the watershed of the Kahang and Madek with their tribu- 

 taries. Their numbers are now very limited, comprising no more 

 than thirty souls. They are not uniform in type, even their limited 

 community presenting several varieties, which is accounted for by 

 the intermarriage Avith Malays ; the Chinese have, I believe, had 

 Little, if any. intercourse with, this tribe. 



