74 SOME ETHNOLOGICAL NOTES. 



The head-men of the Belanas are given as 1, Batin; 2 f 

 Jinang; 3, Jukrah — the usual titles among the southern in- 

 land tribes. I find that a variant of the latter also occurs 

 among the Proto-Malays of the Kallang estuary in Singapore, 

 a fact which Messrs. Skeat and Ridley failed to elect during 

 their short visit thither (J. S. B. E. A. S. Mo. 33). 



These' enquirers state that the head-men of the Kampong 

 they visited were 1, Jinang; 2, Batin. I further find in the 

 neighbourhood one Kampong administered by 1, Batin; 2, 

 Dukrah: and another under 1, Penghulu; 2, Jinang. At 

 Telok Senimba , Pulo Batam, a dozen miles away, the people 

 who are a branch of the "Orang Sabimba " referred to by 

 Logan (Journal of the India Archipelago Vol. I.) have 1, 

 Penghulu; 2, Batin. 



The communities of the Kallang River have evidently 

 been drawn from various sources and some guidance may be 

 afforded by these titles as to their derivation. 



Amongst these primitive tribes the title of Batin extends 

 throughout their range from the farthest north of Biliton, and 

 in the islands appears to be the only one except where they 

 have come under the influence of the ruling Malays, in which 

 cases a Malay has often been appointed as Penghulu. 



In the Peninsula however there are amongst themselves 

 officials subordinate to the Batin known as Jinang and Jukrah. 

 Where (according to Logan and others) a Malay has been 

 appointed to supervise them he also is called, possibly because 

 of his functions, Jinang, and it is needless to say that in these 

 cases the title would occasionally become the superior one. 

 This might account for the reversed " Table of Precedency " 

 noted by Messrs. Ridley and Skeat, as Kampong Roko is a 

 small village hedged in by dominant Malays. The anomaly 

 of Penghulu and Jinang noticed by myself in another Kam- 

 pong I can only account for by supposing that long ago the 

 title of Batin dropped out of use. 



The word bidoh, boat (also the name of a stream in 

 Singapore) given as a Non-Malay expression, is in 

 common use amongst the Malays of the west coast of 

 Borneo. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



