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MISCELLANNEOUS NOTICES, &C. 
come under his own observation ? and above all what acts 
ol “servility” the Malays have been guiltty of, for he cer¬ 
tainly is the first writer to our knowledge that has even 
lepiesented servility’ as a vice of the Malayan character. 
One other point of somewhat more general interest than 
the preceding which is asserted in Mr Burns’s paper, may 
here be slightly commented on. He states the population 
of the countries he visited to amount to seven thousand 
persons,* and he speaks in rather magnificent terms of his 
exalted friends and relatives the three great chiefs Kam Lasa, 
Kam Nipa and Batu Dian, besides several other inferior 
chiefs. Now if we divide the amount of the total population 
by six to obtain the number of fighting men we shall find 
wai ™ rs to M60 in number, and if we deduct 
^oo of these as the following of the inferior chiefs, it will 
leave a grand total of 300 fighting men for each of the three 
renowned Kayan Rajahs Kam tasa, Kam Nipa and Dian 
JtScltll, 
lliese are the conquerors ! the suzerein lords of Malayan 
towns . Kam Nipa’s grand array of three hundred men has 
withstood the joint tribes of Serebas and Sakarran which 
at the lowest computation can bring 8,000 fighting men in¬ 
to the field, and in turn have invaded those rivers ! ! This is 
the force feared by the Malays of Siriki which could brino- 
1,000 well armed men against them ! These are the people 
who have attacked Muka and Oya and who have captured 
.rulo; Matu Meri and other places ! ! ! This is indeed “ Par- 
turuent montes nasciter ridiculus Mus.” This statement 
is not only improbable in the highest degree, but next to 
physically impossible, unless Mr Burns means to exalt every 
Kayan warrior into an Amadis de Gaul or an Orlando Furioso 
for certain it is that such small communities, living distant 
one from another, could not withstand the incursion of the 
Serebas and Sakarran, and that long since they would have 
become subject to the “atrocious” Malays of the coast who 
are as fond of becoming conquerors as the Kayans them¬ 
selves. It will be nearer the truth (and what Mr Burns 
probably meant) to state the fighting men at 7,000, and cer¬ 
tain it is that Kum Nipa alone has offered to bring 100 
boats to Siriki in order to attack Serebas, and as these’boats 
carry on an average 20 men each, the total number of Kum 
Nipa s following may be reckoned at about 2,000 men. 
Mr Dalton stated the Kayans amongst whom he lived to 
is *oftman U Ja?ue? Ver havi " g Vi ® Ued Bairoon his » taten *ent of the population 
