110 ON THE MALA'YU NATION. 



Dog* 



Koyo'pe* 



Bear, 



Sehd. 



Elephant, 



Brinkih 



Rhinoceros, 



Risaki. 



Arm, 



Wiingun, 



Foot, 



Tomin. 



Child, 



JMerbodo. 



Infant, 



Opayeto 



Wild hog, Chonkokh. 

 Devil, Choleng. 



Evil spirit^ 

 which blasts 

 the produce 

 of the earth, J 



God, Dcos. Evidently Portu- 



guese. 



> Hantu bilir. 



As the relation that may have existed between the state of Menang- 

 cdbaw, on the island of Sumatra, and that so called, on the Malay Penin- 

 sula, is not generally known, the following translation of a Maldyu MS. 

 to which I give some credit, may tend to elucidate it. The fact 

 related is without date or authority, but it is in a great degree confirmed 

 by the general history of Johor, and the present state of the country in 

 the neighbourhoods as well as by the existence at this day, of another 

 Malay state of considerable extent, situated in the interior of the penin- 

 sula, and deriving its authority from Menangcdbaw in Sumatra. The state 

 alluded to is that of Rembaw, inland of Maldca, the Raja of which as well 

 as his officers, receive their authority and appointments from Sumatra. 

 The communication is carried on in the Malay Peninsula through the 

 river Lingi, in the neighbourhood of Maldca, and that of Side; on the Su- 

 matra side. The Malays of Rembazv, with whom I have had frequent 

 communication, adopt the broad dialect of the Malays of Sumatra, chang- 

 ing the a at the end of a word into o; this peculiarity may be still obser- 

 ved among many of the inhabitants of the southern part of the peninsula. 



" Many years ago the Raja of 'Johor had an only daughter, the fame 

 "' 'of whose beauty reached the ears of the illustrious son of the Raja of 



