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{| style="margin:auto;"
 * Finger || Tü || Raan
 * Neck || Maroku || ...
 * Breast || Guo-Kampotu || ...
 * Stomach || Lopot || ...
 * Back || Bahoi || ...
 * Leg || Ano-kompo, || betit, lutat
 * Foot || Dioka || ...
 * Toe || Tschere-Dioku || ...
 * Cold || Tkat || ...
 * Hot || Khob || Gohom
 * Dead || Kobs || ...
 * To Eat || Intia, ntia || Ndia
 * To Drink || Diao || ...
 * To Sleep || Letek || ...
 * To Go || Swag || ...
 * To Run || Palo || ...
 * To Cut || Nako || ...
 * Sumpitan || Blahan || ...
 * Arrow || Dama || ...
 * 1. || Moi || Moi
 * 2. || Npotn || Dua
 * 3. || Npe || Npe
 * 4. || Prui || Npun
 * 5. || ... || Massoku
 * 6. || ... || Pru
 * 7. || ... || Tempo
 * }
 * To Sleep || Letek || ...
 * To Go || Swag || ...
 * To Run || Palo || ...
 * To Cut || Nako || ...
 * Sumpitan || Blahan || ...
 * Arrow || Dama || ...
 * 1. || Moi || Moi
 * 2. || Npotn || Dua
 * 3. || Npe || Npe
 * 4. || Prui || Npun
 * 5. || ... || Massoku
 * 6. || ... || Pru
 * 7. || ... || Tempo
 * }
 * 2. || Npotn || Dua
 * 3. || Npe || Npe
 * 4. || Prui || Npun
 * 5. || ... || Massoku
 * 6. || ... || Pru
 * 7. || ... || Tempo
 * }
 * 6. || ... || Pru
 * 7. || ... || Tempo
 * }
 * 7. || ... || Tempo
 * }

According to the statements of the Malays, the Orang-Utan of Pahang, where I am now going to travel, speak their own language, which is quite unintelligible to the Malays, and so these poor wild men are eruelly treated; and on this account become more isolated than those who live here in Johor. I hope to make further and fuller contributions towards the knowledge of the language of this people."

The Istana, Johor, 28th May, 1875.

[Extract from Letter II.]

"Before receiving your answer to my last letter, which I await with much interest, I find myself in a position to anticipate it in consequence of my second Journey into the Malay Peninsula. In the Mountains of Pahang and Kelantan as far as Singora and Ligor, I have discovered a Melanesian population. This people, which is probably the primitive race of these parts undoubtedly belongs to judge from its physical "habitus" to the Melanesian stock. Leading a nomadic life, these people retire