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to mean the Junior Lord of All Things) and afterwards Woo, 
who flourished about one hundred years before our era, sent 
expeditions in search of the Water of Life (see “ Taonism,” 
p. 238). And Kinabalu means simply the Chinese Widow. 
Now I made enquiries of people, Muruts and Dusuns, 
who had domesticated the maias, and they said they had edu- 
cated them so far as that they followed their masters to their 
daily labour at their farms, but never could be got to work. 
The most that was ever got from them in return for their 
food was that one, more intelligent than the many, had been 
taught to bring fire for his master’s cigarette when requested 
to do so. 
I should like to be able to inform you as to the period of 
gestation of the maias, and other points of its economy, but 
am not able to do this. 
Note here : — I read a remark in your Journal that, not- 
withstanding (!) the fadf that maias are not Carnivora, they 
have well-developed eye-teeth. The writer did not consider 
how useful these teeth are to the animal in tearing off the 
thick and rigid rinds of most of the forest fruit. 
Note again : — One of your correspondents observes, as it 
appears in an extradf quoted, that to the Dyaks of Borneo 
the maias is simply the orang utan, or “ man of the woods.” 
As a matter of facht, however, the Dyaks call the maias 
nothing else but “ maias.” In the north the Muruts call 
him “ Kagui,” and the Dusuns “ Kaigiu.” The only people 
in Borneo whom I know to call him “ orang utan ” are a 
single family of Arabs in the north, and very likely they got 
the name from the English settlers at Balambangan, at the 
close of the last century. 
