remarks on the sleter and sabimba tribes, 349 * 
ther the utensils of the deceased such as sumpitan, cooking utensils, 
parrangs, bliongs, &c.; these they place at the side; they then leave 
the spot and wander to other parts. The above account differs slight¬ 
ly from, your own which shows that they are not guided by strict 
rules in the case of deaths and marriages. 
Their language is the Malayan, spoken with a peculiar accent; 
whether or not they originally spoke another language I cannot offer 
an opinion. Their primary words are all the same, so it is probable 
that they speak tlie language unmixed with Arabic, but deeper re¬ 
search is required on this subject; an acquaintance with the philology 
of the Archipelago, might throw many interesting facts open to the 
world; your extensive enquiries on this subject mil therefore be look¬ 
ed for with impatience. Their proper names differ entirely from the 
Sl&ar tribe, and are slightly mixed with the Malayan,* the following 
Is a list. 
Males. 
Lodang 
Solax 
Ayin 
Bootoon 
Bintang 
Jalee 
Serong 
Nipis 
Rama 
Talei 
Angin 
Rinnah 
Bangas 
Kassar 
Kassaw 
Oomboo 
Deman 
Mooloot 
Looioot 
Pang 
Females . 
Reenee 
Tawei 
Meenah 
Aisa 
Tengah 
Bookit 
Teemah 
Nareemah 
Mungee 
Dyang 
A copious list of proper names I would suggest as forming a cri¬ 
terion of what races they have been in contact with, and as not the least 
important of the branches of ethnological enquiry. 
The personal appearance of these denizens of the forest is, to say 
the least, pleasing ; well formed features in the young and a contented 
placidity of contenance in the old, would at once show them to be an 
improveable race ; unshackled with the dogmas of the Islam and in¬ 
fantine in their preception of all things, they stand as its were on the 
threshold of such a faitli as Christianity presents in its primitive, most 
humble, and purest form, but they have no one to invite them in. It 
f All the names are Malayan,—E d, 
