ofthe SAME TREE

141. Ginting, “Pak Surdam,” 86–7.
142. Willer, “Verzameling,” 295–6; Ginting, “Pak Surdam,” 86–7.
143. Voorhoeve, “Some Remarks,” 39.
144. Bellwood, Prehistory, 122, 233. Linguists warn against equating language
with language speakers since an earlier population could adopt the language of the
newcomer. Unless more conclusive evidence is presented on the ethnicity of the group
that occupied the Toba highlands, I will assume that the inhabitants were ancestors of
the group that came to be identified in later centuries as the Batak. I am grateful to
K. A. Adelaar for his informed comments on this subject.
145. The process is described in a typewritten document owned by Tengku Luckman
Sinar titled, “Hamparan Perak,” 1–15.
Chapter 6: The Orang Laut and the Malayu
1. For an excellent study of the Sama-Bajau, see Sather, Bajau Laut.
2. The word “hanyut” is also the word used by the Orang Laut when they speak of
a time when they were swept away from land by a large storm and washed out to sea.
3. Hogan, “Men of the Sea,” 210, 219–20.
4. Pattemore and Hogan, “On the Origins,” 76.
5. Ivanoff, Moken, 115.
6. Hogan, “Men of the Sea,” 207; Pattemore and Hogan, “On the Origins,” 76.
7. Ainsworth, Merchant Venturer, 138.
8. Bernatzik, De Geesten, 37.
9. Hogan, “Men of the Sea,” 210.
10. Ainsworth, Merchant Venturer, 21–2.
11. Ivanoff, “Les Moken,” 27.
12. Pattemore and Hogan, “On the Origins,” 76.
13. Bellwood, Prehistory, 135.
14. Hs. 494, Rapport Ch. van Angelbeek, KITLV, fol. 22.
15. Bruijn-Kops, “Sketch,” 386.
16. Schot, “De Batam Archipel,” 30, 163.
17. Andaya, To Live as Brothers, 46–7, 222.
18. Matheson and Andaya, Tuhfat al-Nafis, 159.
19. Overeenkomsten, A1 Treaty of 1857, 8–9; A2 Note of Revision, 5.
20. Thomson, “Description of the Eastern Coast,” 85–6.
21. Netscher, “Togtjes,” vol. 14, 5.
22. The association of certain groups with specific areas is implied in the sultan
of Lingga’s prohibition in the nineteenth century of movements of people from one
Orang Laut group to another without the approval of the sultan or his representative
(batin). Netscher, “Beschrijving,” 133.
23. Adatrechtbundels, vol. 20, 242.
24. Adatrechtbundels, vol. 20, 244–5.
25. Ivanoff, “Les Moken,” 11–14.
26. Chou, “Contesting,” 613–4, 618.
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