BY SIDNEY H. BAY. 
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The Behe people dwell in the basin of the river of the 
same name, a tributary of the Landak, which itself flows 
into the northern branch of the Kapuas. The district is in 
the western neighbourhood of the Sangau. The language 
is stated to be a Malay dialect.* * * § 
The Menjukeis, or Benjukais, live in the neighbourhood 
of the Behe, but speak dialects entirely different. A. A. 
Fokker, to whom our knowledge of both dialects is due, 
states that in the former, Malay n becomes t f and ng 
changes to k. The voiced e is pronounced as a. t 
The Sidins, or Sidings, dwell on the Sidin and Pawan 
Bivers in East Sambas. 
Of the four preceding languages, only the Sangau appears 
in the comparative Vocabulary, but some words, extracted 
from the notices of A. A. Fokker and C. Kater,i are given 
for comparison with their equivalents in the Vocabulary. 
2. Maloh. 
H. Keppel§ names the Malo as a tributary of the 
Kapuas, which enters the sea on the west coast of Borneo 
at Pontianak. Brereton in St. John || states that the 
“Malau” is spoken by the aborigines in the interior of 
the Kapuas not far from Mt. Tilong. Hose IT names 
eighteen tribes of “ Maloh Dyaks ” on the Kapuas. Both 
Keppel and St. John give vocabularies which show closely 
related dialects. The Sarawak Museum contains a MS. list of 
Maloh words compiled by Herr van Vellthuysen, Controleur 
of the Upper Kapuas in 1898. 
In 1899 I collected a vocabulary of Kalis Maloh from a 
native of the Upper Kapuas. 
8. Sampit and Katingan. 
Sampit is the chief place in the district of the same 
name in the interior of Southern Borneo, round about the 
river Sampit. An unimportant notice of the language is 
given by "VV. J. M. Michielsen,** and an extensive list of 
* “Korte Aanteekeningen over het Behe-Dajaksch.” Tijd. v. h. 
Binnenlandsch Bestuur, iv. pp. 344-847, 1890. I have been unable to 
refer to this notice, 
f Ibid. 
+ “ De Dajaks van Sidin.” Tijd. Taal, Land-en Volk. xvi. 1867,183-188. 
§ ‘ Expedition to Borneo, 5 i. Appendix. 
|| ‘ Forests of the Far East.’ Appendix. 
If In Ling Both, i. p.. 38. 
** “ Verslag eener reis door de bovendistricten der Sampit en Katingan- 
rivieren ” (Tijdsch. Taal, &c., 28, p. 70). 
