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'* gemiiDe Bfalay word, signifying country, recion, 

 " land, and that a slight variation of the worcu 

 " mhennua, or fenmia, is found in the Bisayan 

 *' dialects of the l^hilippines and the languages 

 *' of the South Sea inlands; bearing a precisely 

 •* similar signiftcation. In my enquiries amongst 

 " the Malays I have not been able, however, to 

 " discover that the term, Orang Benua, (which is 

 " literally aborigines, or people of the land,) is 

 *• ever applied to any particular race of the Ma- 

 ** lay an peninsula, the suppo&ed aboriginal tribes 

 " being styled Sakei or Orang Bukit, Orang 

 '* Laur, and Semang. According to the Malay- 

 " an legends, indeed, there ia a race of wild 

 '* people said to be found ia the interior of 

 *' Burnam, the boundary between the states of 

 •* Perak and Salengor. designated Tuah Benua 

 " (e) by the Salengoriaos, and known at Kedah 

 " by tite name of Mawaa. They are represent- 



**** »ii^*«ryof Sumati* thtn U « deicn|>tbD of ttra mc« of 

 ; wild people DO that wUnd called Omng Kubn, and Omne Gnm the 

 Jutier ul whom seems t-.C(mr<*?prnid Wah tlie dpssriptinn cf the Hitiao 

 " nt Uie f^enin^ula. ' tu th<' coiuii* uf my enijiiiriea amfmRnt the naiivt-s ' 

 observ<>« 34 r. \Jar8deB, ' cimcerome ihe aWidDnn at iht fxhnd I havL 

 J heen iuiormed of twrt differetsLtpeciciof ppoide di^pei*. d in the wocdi 

 and avoiding aU comai«riicution wiUi ftther inbabitantf^ Thtse tlif^ 

 *' calJ Orang Eubu, and Orang Gugti. The fornier «re said to be pretiJ 

 Jnimeroiw.faprdbllj'iiilhiit pan of the country , which liei betwPX'S 

 PaJexnIwM and Jamb! ; «jme have at time, bern cauuht, and ket.1 m 

 eJavMiij Labtin, and a m»n of that plac^^ b now married to % to!erabU 

 hidiidsome KiibiiKi. l, who wiMcarried ofTby a party that dtwov^r^ 

 thdr hiKi, Thpy havp a lanKHB«e quite peeuliar to tlienudvPii, and 

 thty eat protnlscutjuily whatever the woodfl afford, as deer, rif phmm 

 r}n«*cerM wild bog*, snakeii. or mcmkey*. The G«gtt« are much tea re* 

 ff "i^iJ^ these, dlftering litUe but the lae ef sj^eech fnjia Uie Oram 

 "Utan.of Borneo, their bodlea being coTttred with lone hilr. There 

 have not been above twn or three Injitancea of ibetr brbs Wftwlth 

 ** h? people of Ubun (frum nhnm my iDtbnnaliun jn derived \ and one of 

 « tbe«! ^-a* entrapped many yean 8i;o. in much the mnjr manner as the 

 carpenter tn PUpay » fablea caugbt the moiike v. He bad rhildreu bv 

 _ i» Labaa WMiiM, wkkb alM were more huiry' than the common ra4 

 « bat tlie third genemtloti are not to be di^tinem^hed from oth- rs The 

 trader wid bettow what meamre of fatih he thinks due to this relation 

 * tbe Tcracity of wbi(*b 1 do not pretend lo vowch for. It has probabir 

 some foundfttion in truth but u exagKeratiKt in th« ckcnmstancci "* ' 

 H»torj of Suaatra Fagc U* 



