IPJHABITINt] THE MALAYAN PENINSULA. M 



llm naltves of India. If Llie Missions w liich 

 are now to be eslablislied amoti[f Lliern 

 succeed, they will clear up lliesc conjectu- 

 res. A ijreat part of llie Jakuns know and 

 acknowledge the existence of a supreme 

 Being; tliey call liim by Ibe Malay name 

 Tuluin .\Uah K tfie Lord God. Many o I' those 

 uf Joliore know and acknowled|Te too the 

 truth of a punisliment lor the man who 

 coraniits sin; sonic of them ackriowledf^e 

 that punisliment in a (}eneral way, but by 

 what means it is lo be executed, they do 

 not know; some others, but few, declared 

 to rae openly that after death, sinners will 

 be thrown into tiie fire of hell, but they 

 do not know any reward for good men and 

 good works. Those of the Meiiangkabaw 

 states, probably on account of their more 

 frequent communications with the Malays » 

 are more learned iu divinity * some of them 



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