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To fall down. . , ,jaloh h*s 



Tonse.. ..bflinguti k&Bi~au 



To awake. , .Jag ngak 



To ciiinb ^paiijat Jootci 



It may here be obsen'ed that, altbough it is 

 foreign to my purpose to touch upon Borueo and 

 the states beyond the limits of the peninsula, the 

 history of the aboriginal tribes would be i n com- 

 plete were I to omit noticing the Tinin or Idan, 

 and the Biajus of Borneo. Of these last there 

 are two races, one of which is established on the. 

 island, h warlike in it*^ propensities, and claims to 

 be the aboriginal tribe of Borneo, The other lives 

 altogether at sea. in small covered boats, .shifting 

 from island to island, according to the monsoons, 

 and thereby enjoying perpetual summer. The 

 Biajus annually launch a small bark, laden with 

 all the *^ins and misfortunes of the nation, which 

 they imagine fall upon the crew of that vessel by 

 which the boat is first descried. 



The Tirun, or Tedoug, tribes are supposed by 

 Dr. Leyden to be a tribe of the Idan, and inhabit 

 the N. E. coast of Borneo : they are savage, pira- 

 tical, and so far anthropophagous in their habits 

 as to feast upon their eneoYies. The Idan, or 

 Marut, again, are believed by the same author to 

 be but a tribe of the Haraloras, whom they re- 

 semble in stature, color, agility, and manners. 

 He asserts them to be the aborigines of Borneo. 

 The Haraforas are indigenous in nearly every 

 island of the archipelago, and are sometimes met 

 with in those that are inhabited by the Papras* 

 A necessity is entailed upon every member, both 

 of the Idan and Harafura tribes, of embruing his 

 hands at some period of his life in human blood, 

 and in general he is not permitted to marry until 



