A grammar and dictionary of the Malay language : with a preliminary ...

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DISSEETATION.
tliem, and that the ox certainly, and the buffalo probably, are
natives of Borneo. Even the smaller animals, to judge by their
names, must have been introduced by the Malays or Javanese.
Tlie Kayans cultivate yams, rice, some pot-herbs, sugar-cane
and tobacco, by a very rude husbandry, using neither plough,
harrow, nor irrigation. All the articles mentioned thus are of
Malay or Javanese introduction, judging by their names. The
art of smelting iron and rendering it malleable is practised by
the Kayans, and from it they frame their own rude tools and
weapons. They also cultivate cotton, and weave from it a
coarse cloth. Both arts, it would appear by the names, have
been imparted by the Malayan nations. The Kayan numerals
would appear to extend only to 10 and its combinations. They
present a very anomalous character, but are essentially
Malayan. Three of them seem to be native, two Malay, one
Javanese, and four are common to these languages.
The more advanced nations of Celebes appear to have gained
a considerable portion of their civilisation through their inter-
course with the Malays and Javanese. I possess no
innueiice of
vocabulary of sufficient extent, except for the liyan language
n'apeople"*''
of the Bugis, the principal nation of the island, and my
Celebes,
jnfercnces must be drawn from a comparison of its
words with those of the Malay and Javanese.
The animals domesticated by the Bugis and other principal
nations of Celebes are the same as those subjugated by the
Malays and Javanese, and are the following :
ENGLISH.
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