110 NOTES OF THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO, 
In a foot note Groeneveldt says “these two characters 
“are properly pronounced p’ang, k’ang, but the first, which 
“has the sound p’e" or p’a” in Fukien, is often used for render- 
‘ing the sound pa or p’a, whilst the second character is taken 
“for hang on account of its primitive, which often has this 
‘sound in other combinations.” 
In volume IV of the T’oung Pa, at page 81, Dr. Muller 
questions the accuracy of the rendering of wD and suggests 
that; as there‘is a tribe in the locality called “the Panggang,” 
this:was probably the old name of the place. Groeneveldt in 
Vol. VII of the same journal, at page 114, acce;ts this 
suggestion. I venture to submit that Groeneveldt was right in 
his first conjecture, and that Dr. Muller is wrong. In the 
first place, the tribe is the orang pangan, the aborigines of 
the country, and the word in the mouth of a Malay bears no 
resemblance whatever to panggang. The orang pangan, like 
all other aborigines, are driven to live in the forest, and it is 
quite impossible that they should ever have given their name 
to the Pahang River. In the second place, the ide»rgraphs 
WeUL are occasionally used, at the present day, by the 
Chinese to represent Pahang. 
