MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES, CONTRIBUTIONS AND 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
LETTER FROM THE INTERIOR OF BORNEO (WEST COAST.) 
NO III.* 
Karangan , July 10/A, 184S. 
The importance of <c proper names” leads me to notice that my 
signature as printed in the March No. lacked an to close its 
third syllable. Kalamantan is the name of our young continent, 
and I presume the correction has been made by yourself; the word 
radang (or, in the true Dyak radakn) was printed sadang, and the 
name of the orchard requires a final “ n ”, Since this matter 
is open, let me .say a little in reference to differences between Malay 
and Dyak. The class of words is by no means small in which the 
body of the syllables is quite the same, and the last two letters of 
the word “ kn ” in the one case and “ ng ” in the other—the Dyak 
being the harsher. In another class ending in n in Malay, a / is of¬ 
ten found before it in the speech of the other people ; the Dyak uses 
it thus in the already long enough name of his island-home. In the 
name of the moon yet another change occurs as buratn , bulan s who 
made the change, and when ? Malays here, sometimes turn r into 
and among Dyak children it is not an uncommon affectation to make 
ay of it, as bu-yafn. According to all rule, we should expect to 
hear a Dyak call corn, jagokn, but, that being his name for a deer, 
he uses the Malay form ; and, if one of this people were a school¬ 
master, the terror of his boys would be, not rotatn but wi (pronounc¬ 
ed ice). A few words from Malay to which the rules above allud¬ 
ed to will apply, are the following, though perhaps I may have given 
* We greatly regret that want of space compells us to omit the first page 
of this letter. Wc have contributions in hand that will fill several num¬ 
bers of the Journal, and the only way in which we can attend to the claims 
of all our contributors on the one hand and those ofour readers on theother, 
is by occasionally omitting passages which relate to subjects not strictly 
within the province of the Journal, and condensing papers that may be 
somewhat diffuse. The valuable or interesting but hitherto neglected mat¬ 
ter which our field includes is so ample and varied, that, to give room for 
all who have so zealously and ably taken part in our work, each contributor 
will, we hope, recognize the propriety of some degree of conciseness in 
style.— Ed. 
Vol IT. No. X. October , 1848. 
