INHABITING THE MALAYAN PENINSULA. 39 



lays. The following answer given by the 

 chiefs of Ihe Jakuiis of ihe Menangkabaw 

 states, who were summoned to the pre- 

 sence of king Mahomed Sliali, may be con- 

 sidered as a specimen of their style and 

 literalure as well as explanatory of their 

 manners and customs : We wish to return 

 to our old customs, to ascend the lofty 

 mountain, to dive into the earth's deep ca- 

 verns, to traverse the boundless forest, to 

 repose, with our head pillowed on the knot- 

 ted trunk of the Dorian tree, and curlained 

 by Russam leaves. To w ear garments made 

 from the leaves of the Lumbah or Terap 

 tree, and a head-dress of Bajali leaves. 

 Where the Meranti trees join tlieir lofty 

 branches, where the kompas links its knots, 

 there we love to sojourn. Our weapons are 

 the tamiang (or sumpitan), and the quiver 

 of arrows imbued in the gum of the deadly 

 Telak. The Huid most delicious to us is the 

 limpid water that lodges in the hollow of 



