Ill, — A 1 'OMPVKAT1YE YoCABl'LAEY iW THE liAtAX, KEXYAII 
ax i) K XL A bit Languages—By R. S. Douglas, 
Resident of Baram, Sarawak. 
INTRODUCTION. 
Various vocabularies have been published from time 
to time of these people, but none of them are really 
full enough or contain sufficient words to obtain any 
grasp of the languages, and seem chiefly to have been 
made to show the connection between the three peoples 
and not the differences which exist. Vocabularies have 
been compiled by Sir Spenser St. John, Brooke Low 
(Vide Ling Roth's book on Natives of Borneo), Dr. 
Hose and Mr. S. Ray. 
The Vocabulary included in the following pages 
has been compiled during a residence of 13 years in 
the Baram District of Sarawak, and I therefore lay 
myself open to the formidable criticism of Dr. Hose, 
whose knowledge of the natives of that District is 
unrivalled. 
The Kalabits are certainly the oldest tribe of the 
three in Baram and as Dr. Hose states are of Kalam- 
antan stock, as are also the greater number of the 
tribes now-a-days known as Kenyahs, such as Long 
Patas, Long Tikans, Long Ulais, Long Kiputs, Sebops, 
etc., who are known to the natives as the “Leppu 
Poun” meaning “the original people” and therefore 
the aborigines. 
Then came the invasion of the real Kenyahs, “Leppu 
Buau” or “the moving people”. They probably came 
over from Celebes Islands and then up the Balungan 
river in Dutch Borneo, and turned out the “Leppu 
Poun”, who were then living in the Highlands between 
the sources of the Rejang, Silat and Batang Kayan 
rivers known as the “Usun Apo”, which apparently 
