106 NOTES OF THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO. 
Kara bears no resemblance to gading eo the Malay 
10) IVOKY,. a Ka fan ENS Ee probably must be the sound that the | 
word gading ould take in Chinese. The first syllable of 
kara and katin is the same; the difficulty is to suggest any 
reason for the substitution of ra for tun. The Chinese ideo- 
graphs, it will be seen, are not similar, and there can therefore 
have been no mistake through mutilation of the ideograph. 
The only thing that I can suggest is a mistake on the part of 
the writer or the copyist. Ra aE is the last syllable of 
mutiara V2 ZEW the word immed ote preceding kara 
RS and it is not impossible that carelessness in the writing 
of these words in foreign tongue led to the repetition of the 
ae in the place of the Ty that should have been written. 
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Kemennien Uv which is Rranoumced ke-men-ni-en 
and is the usual Malay word for the common resinous incense 
known as gum benjamin, is perhaps the sound which the 
writer has endeavoured to catch in kun-tun-li-lin. It can not 
be considered a happy effort, but kemennien is a word not 
easy for a foreigner to pronounce, and far from easy to set 
down in writing. 
Ti-nw, the rhinoceros, is another difficulty. The word 
bears no resemblance to the common Malay word badak 
( 35k) but it may possibly be a corruption of the word wmpit 
( aic\) Wilkinson in his dictionary gives badak himpit as a 
kind of rhinoceros. Though personally I have not heard the 
word used in.this way in the Peninsula, I have heard it used 
to represent the sound of the rhinoceros’ call. 
This is the way too, in which the word is used by the 
aboriginal Besisi of Selangor, for : 
Jour. Straits Branch 
