_i_.
_ow_ (_ou_) like _ow_ in _cow_.
The final _k_ in Malayan is frequently mute: thus Dyak is pronounced
Dyaa, with the slightest possible aspiration.
_gn_ is a liquid sound.
We add an alphabetical list of some of the words which have occurred
in the preceding pages.
_Arafuras_, or _Haraforas_, natives of Papua.
_Balanian_, wild tribes in Borneo.
_Bandar_, or _Bandhara_, treasurer, high steward, high officer
of state.
_Basaya_, tribes in the interior of Borneo Proper, locating near and
resembling the Murut.
_Battara,_ one of the Dyak names of God (the Hindu _Avatara_).
_Borneo_, the island of, written "Bruni" by the inhabitants.
_Borneo Proper,_ the northern and northwestern part of the island;
an independent Malay state.
_Borneons_, the Malay inhabitants of Borneo Proper.
_Bruni_, the native name for Borneo.
_Bugis_, natives of Celebes.
_Bulan_, the Moon, a poetical title of honor to a pirate-chief.
_Campong_, a native village, or town.
_Datu_, a cape or point of land to the northwest of the river
Banjamassim.
_Datus_, strictly, native chiefs, heads of tribes.
_Dusun,_ agricultural villagers on the northern extremity of Borneo.
_Dyaks_; or Dyak, aborigines of Borneo, and generally pronounced Dyah.
_Dyak Darrat,_ Land Dyaks.
_Dyak Laut,_ Sea Dyaks.
_Gantong_, a Malay measure for rice.
_Gunong_, a mountain.
_Hadji_, a Mahomedan who has made a pilgrimage to Mecca.
_Haraforas_, or _Arafuras_, natives of Papua.
_Idaans_ [Kadiens], Borneon tribes, and the name generally given to
most of the varieties of the Indian Archipelago.
_Illanuns_ or _Lanuns_, pirates inhabiting the small cluster of
islands between Borneo and Magindano.
_Jovata_, a Dyak name of God, of Hindu origin.
_Kadiens_, Borneon tribes, Mahomedans, the Idaan of preceding voyagers
and writers. See _Idaans_.
_Kalamantan_, an original name of Borneo.
_Kanowit_, wild tribes in Borneo.
_Kaya_, a title of authority, Orang Kaya de Gadong, chief man of
Gadong.
_Kayans_, the most powerful and warlike people of Borneo, living
inland.
_Kuching_, the former name of the town of Sarawak.
_Lubuan_, the island off Borneo river, ceded by the sultan to the
British crown.
_Lelas_, guns.
_Magindano_, an island off the northeast of Borneo, the natives of
which are pirates.
_Makassar_, the straits of, usually written Macassar, but more
accurately Mangkassar.
_Malays_,
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