BY SIDNEY H. RAY. 
9 
vocabulary enclosed by mistake among the papers of 
Brooke Low. 
The Sea Dayaks are said to possess an ancient language. 
According to K. Lasch,* * * § “ the language which theManangs 
or witch-doctors of the Sea Dayaks in Sarawak use in their 
ceremonies is often not understood by themselves, and is 
by the uninitiated known as bungea jake.” This term 
appears to be intended for the words bungai jako perhaps 
meaning “ flower language,” but the expression is not 
found in Howell and Bailey’s ‘ Dictionary.’ St. John says : 
“ The language used by the manangs in their incantations 
is unintelligible even to the Dayaks themselves, and is 
described by the uninitiated as bungea jaker, i. e. manang 
gibberish.”! Bev. J. Perham says: “Most of the matter 
chanted in these Manang performances is unmeaning 
rubbish. They begin by describing in prolix and grandiose 
language all the parts of a Dayak house.” t The Bev. 
W. Howell writes § that bungai jako , also called jako 
bekurong, ox pantun jako, mean “a parable.” He gives the 
examples: Tu bungai jako iya, his parable ; anang ngena 
jako bebungai, do not use a parable. 
8. Land Dayak. 
The Land Dayaks occupy the south-western corner of 
Sarawak, especially about the Sadong, Samarahan, Sara¬ 
wak, and Lundu Bivers and their tributaries, and extend 
into Netherlands Territory, especially about the upper 
waters of the Sambas Biver. The language is fairly well 
known, and several dialects are represented by lengthy 
vocabularies. In some (Sentah, Quop, or Beta) there are 
Bible translations and a small Mission literature. || 
The Land Dayaks call themselves Bideyuch, meaning 
“ people of the land ” (i. e. not of the sea).1C 
In the Vocabulary the following dialects are illustrated; 
the native name (when known) being given in brackets, in 
its Singhi form. 
* “ TJeber Sondersprachen und ihrer Entstehung.” Mitt. Anthrop. 
Gesells. Wien, xxxvii. 1907, p. 148. 
f ‘ Forests of the Far East,’ i. p. 62. 
I Jour. Straits Br. Roy. Asiatic Soc. No. 19, 1887. 
§ Letter to Mr. J. C. Moulton, 1913. 
|| Cf. Bibliography, Nos. 82, 118, 152, 153, 155, 259. 
Cf. Howell and Bailey, ‘ Sea Dayak Dictionary,’ under Daya. 
