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THE LANGUAGES OF BORNEO. 
Report. These were preceded by a general account (in the 
German language) of the literature relating to each dialect, 
with geographical and statistical notes on the tribes using 
them. In obtaining his lists of words Dr. Meyer was 
greatly indebted to Mr. J. C. Moulton, the Curator of the 
Sarawak Museum, through whose mediation the following 
Officers of the Sarawak Government took considerable 
time and trouble in filling up the lists :— 
Mr. F. F. Boult. Hon. R. S. Douglas. 
Hon. I Kirkpatrick Caldecot. Hon. J. Baring-Gould. 
Mr. G. S. Chuan. Mr. H. S. B. Johnson. 
Mr. W. R. T. Clement. Mr. A. E. Lawrence. 
Mr. H. B. Crocker. Mr. H. L. Owen. 
Mr. F. W. Page-Turner. 
On Dr. Meyer’s death, in 1911, his MSS. were kindly 
placed at my disposal by Herr Buschbeck, of Leipzig, but 
the printed material which was promised with them went 
elsewhere, and hence there has been some delay in pre¬ 
paring the papers for publication. I have been unable to 
refer to some of the works examined by Dr. Meyer. 
The account of the Borneo languages here presented is 
not a translation of Dr. Meyer’s proposed work, but I have 
freely used his bibliographical and geographical notes. 
His vocabulary consisted only of the equivalents (as far as 
possible) of the one hundred and fifty-four words contained 
in my Report on Torres Straits and New Guinea, and did 
not include Pronouns, Numerals, or Adverbs. My own 
lists contained these, and included altogether about two 
hundred and ten words. 
Dr. Meyer owed a vocabulary of the Manyan dialect of 
Netherlands Borneo to Rev. H. Sundermann, of the 
Rhenish Missionary Society in Beto, South-east Borneo. 
To the Rev. F. Braches, of the Rhenish Mission at Bandjer- 
masin, I am indebted for many specimens of books in 
Ngaju, Manyan, and Malay of South-east Borneo. Since 
the preparation of the present work I have, through Mr. 
J. C. Moulton, received some supplementary lists from Mr. 
J. T. Chynoweth, Mr. W. R. Barry-Giffard, and the Rev. 
C. Ah Luk. From the Yen. Archdeacon Sharp I received, on 
my visit to Kuching in 1898, specimens of the Mission 
literature, and later specimens have been received from 
the Rev. 0. G. Collis, of Kuching, and from the British 
and Foreign Bible Society, through the kindness of Rev. 
Dr. Kilgour. 
To the Hon. 0. A. Bampfylde, formerly Resident of 
