NOTES x\XI) QUERIES. 307 



Mr. Groeneveldt does not point out that the name given to 

 it in the Chinese text affords a strong corroboration to this 

 identification. It may be questioned indeed whether the Chinese 

 nomenclator meant the words here rendered gold and silver to be 

 read phonetically, or whether he himself assumed this ingenious 

 transcription to be a true etymological rendering of the Malay 

 name, which is Kemenijian. Either way, the Chinese name* is 

 phonetically near enough to the Malay name to make it certain 

 that benzoin is meant. 



* Cant. — Kem nuen. 



Hak. — Kim ngyin. 



Hok. — ^K^ini gun. 



flail. — Kium ngien. 



Batara Guru. 



In a Mayang Invocation published in the Selangor Journal 

 of the 7th Sept., 1894, the following interesting passage occurs: 



" H. C." translates this : 



" Peace be unto thee ! I am about to remove from thee, 

 my Grandsire, who art styled Petera Guru, the original teacher, 

 who art from the beginning, and who art incarnate from thv 

 birth." 



I am inclined to read the adverbial Arabic \\ with the 



following word \y. rather than with the preceding word ^ X* 



This, however, does not alter the general sense of the passage 

 beyond bringing out more clearly the fact that " Guru" is used 

 as a proper name. 



In the Selangor Journal of the 22nd February, 1895, the 

 following passage occurs in an article on the invocation of the 

 Padi Spirits, over the signature of " W. S." 



" When the jungle is first cleared for the forming of a 

 " new Padi swamp, importance is attached to the invocation of 

 " certain mythical personages who may have probably been the 



