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THF. KTFIN01.00Y OF THE INWAN Allf JltPFXAGO. 



exert a two-fold influence They provoke a conslani intercom** 

 between tlie rivers of their opposite margins or the islets scattered 

 throntrh them, they bring the whole urnW the operation of foreign 

 < ivilifiatfous, and, opening as they do into each other, they are aa 

 inoad highway! bSVeretltg Jin- wboli< A rt:lj i; u'Suijo in uiiferent. 

 directions, and uniting it, both for foreign navigator*, and lor the 

 more advanced and entnrjiris'uifr ot ite native cou.munities. 



the ncjrrort, with « single western wee, the Malay*, should be abolished, and all 

 geographical names tainted villi It should be dlwrsrrfed. 



Until some reformation be introduced by European ethnographers, I ahall 

 endeavour to designate the different geographical districts which must frequently 

 be referred to, by terms as purely geographical as I enrt find, and with ilue regard 

 to uniformity of system. A system of miming l» iadetd more wantnd than particular 

 names, for the district* on which our attention U successively fixed in pursuing 



and the names 



roust be eapabb >r tin eame changes, and st 

 be at once nwWstood. I think the best ; 

 .IkkrirL. Ivin- . 'I* OMuultr tide* of the ran 



h thnt which con 

 ion indicated, bi 



ryiug applications can 

 iphs the naiuos of two 

 it entering- into it. the 



first being con^TWtal or eophouieally ehniisvd, when there i* moiu for it, in order 



tn mv»ft nmnw nf imltw 1a lh« cnmtuiuiift lunr-- i ; . ttn-t !tj]|..»r!aii1 -i i Ibr 



iIk i tli:i'>cTfljilibt aro thote embraced by a r' 1 

 If these tie Utopia ted by the name of the tit 

 nf the i'^wf valuable kind In erlmotrrnphie 

 have the Indragiri-tatm, the Kahayan-hat 

 Indicated without the reference lo phyticu 

 basiu, or short ry by ihe u*un! locsil t». '• 1 

 names of the rivers are frequently oesciipth 

 ndviseabK' to restrict the pljtrtfix to them. 





*, or river bating, and 

 y geographical numrs 

 * obtained. Thus wf! 

 Iwrin. Tlwsomsyhe 



substituting land for 

 yatita, be, and aa thn 

 ;»Wsj liabic, it rosy lie 



word land for Hea- 



ndratriria, Kaha 

 e and theivt->i' | 

 and resen e the 



districts, the name* of rat** being frequently 

 in general restricted lo sea ami oceanic hs 





rd basiu again may be 



mentioned. In tho*e ca*e* where the name 





\ i UTDim: tlUlt 01 



e liiltiir must be used, 



h ii iiifirnr' tnf* it 







1, so that every web nahio will lie quia- 



thus raemlieng-ljwun, Brunsi-liaili). 



All i ihnlc regions should be named from the tribes that Inhabit thorn, and the 

 name of ow tribe should never be extended to lands which it dees not possess. 

 Where mod tribe* are scattcmi tl 

 l>e applied to it, unless it has a ro 

 true prtndpki Li t o understand di thii 



,'i-V, • vvjrh flu: ji.iili iieei'f'iaii.m'.-f'sbe tame region ur particular part, of it by 

 werni tribes. Thus by Malay u-land I understand nil di*tricf», whether geo- 

 graphically united nr not, that nre possessed by eommnnities of Mala; -us, and by 

 Malay* or Malay u» I unduitand wen of lh< Malnyu ra^and languutfc So by 

 Jawa-Iaud I understand all the huah* uf the Jawa race; so Sunda-land, Wugi-huuf, 

 Datta-land, dee. 



Compound ethnic names mid iheir apprnprjunr radons I would designate in the 

 name mode as the eximpound ge-ngrapbic&l regions, hut with this necessary pro- 

 vision that where there are Interims! kite rnoa, those only which belong to the -barne 

 alhanen. or family wWi the two numed, are to be undcr*trnMi a* inclmled,— thus. 

 Malay u-Jawon, Malay u-Tagalan, Malay u- Polynesian, Malnyn-Timor»-ari, each 

 roinp^und fhUkatfHg atlrftwint ethnk gRMmEng md fJMn*ftna*htwng jufcrart 



trilH-. 



For the compound Insular districts which must tie mtat frequently mentioned, U 

 is very de-si ruble that hiugbj gungraplilcal names nhould be usrd. Unlit uue.t- 

 ccptiuaabbi ones are susgestfKl we must continue to iroeak of the .Sumatra- Phlllplm? 

 blanda, ihe Mnluko-Timorean, The Indian Archipelago must remain, hut the 

 shorter form Indonesia may he usefully employed on many occasions, for the reasons 

 mentioned in a previous note. The principal division* to which I flboH most often 

 find ji neeewary to refer will be de*iguatett 1st, TFaffcm nr ir. TmhnstUt i. c, 

 Sumatra, ihe Malay Peninsula, Borneo. Java, and the intenncdlaic islands. 2nd. 

 Xvrth Eastern or N. E. IntloncsUi i. e. Formosa to the Solo Archipelago and Min- 

 danao, all included, nntl embracing the PMJipine and ilUayon ifrouja, &c. 3rd. 



