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 (2). The use of undoubted Sakai words; of these Koyok Kiyan, and Kiyan are all words allied to those used by the Belandas tribe in Selangor.

(3) The Sakai "terumba" or racial records as preserved by the Besisi tribe in the Kwala Langat district (Selangor), which explicitly state that the ancestors of the original tribe descended to the sea and became sea-folk (turun kalaut jadi raiat laut) and that the sea-folk became pirates (Raiat laut jadi Bajan).

Further investigations when opportunities occur may supply more extensive information as to these wild tribes, now so nearly vanished. The foregoing notes, incomplete as they are, show that there are still some records worth the attention of any who have the chance of studying the race, and research in the district of Selitar and Pandan, where the tribe, as late as 1847, were in a very primitive state of civilisation, and in the Carimons, and neighbouring islands, may throw more light on the history and relationship of the Orang Laut.

W. W. Skeat.

H. N. Ridley.