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23. Persoon, however, believes that the differences are overstated. Persoon,
“Vluchten,” 142.
24. Santy, “Schets,” 161.
25. Andaya, To Live as Brothers, 14, 89–90.
26. This is the name that Sandbukt was told during his brief visit to the group,
but since many groups in the interior use such endonyms as Orang Batin Five, Nine,
etc., it is not a satisfactory label. Because of the lack of any adequate description of the
group, Sager has decided to use that name in his Ph.D. dissertation. Sager, personal
communication.
27. Hasselt, Reizen, vol. 1, 199–200, 236–7, 240.
28. Hasselt, Reizen, vol. 1, 85, 236–7.
29. Sager, personal communication.
30. Two of the earliest accounts are Dongen, “Koeboes,” and Hagen, “De Koeboes”
and Orang Kubu. Sandbukt has made a number of studies of the Kubu, including
“Kubu Conceptions,” while Sager is now completing a dissertation titled “If We Cross.”
See bibliography for full references.
31. Hagen, “De Koeboes,” 945; Hagen, Die Orang Kubu, 13; Persoon, “De Kubu,”
453; Persoon, “Vluchten,” 142. According to Sager, the Orang Rimba regard the elephant
and the rhinoceros as gods and thus have strong taboos against killing them.
Both animals are no longer found in the wild in the areas used by the Orang Rimba
today. Sager, personal communication.
32. Porath, “When the Bird Flies,” 214.
33. Keereweer, “De Koeboes,” 363.
34. This was a familiar scenario, which is better known in colonial literature
when the Europeans began to regard non-European peoples in the same light, hence
dispensable to the interests of the superior white European civilization. For an excellent
account of the evolution of these ideas over the centuries, see Adas, Machines as
the Measures of Men.
35. Sandbukt, “Kubu Conceptions,” 2–4; Sager, personal communication.
36. Dongen, “Koeboes,” 190–1. This is the tradition, but historically contact
between the Orang Rimba and the outside world was far older. For an extensive discussion
of this legendary queen, see Andaya, To Live as Brothers.
37. Andaya, To Live as Brothers, 82, 89.
38. Sandbukt, “Kubu Conceptions,” 4.
39. Sager, personal communication.
40. VOC 1517, Letter from Jambi, 2 October 1692, fol. 172v.
41. Oki, “River Trade.”
42. Barnard, Multiple Centres, 32; Effendy, “Orang Petalangan of Riau,” 364–6.
43. One group was said to be of Javanese origin because a Javanese patih had been
given the title of dulubalang besar and allowed to settle in Siak. Rijn van Alkemade,
“Reis van Siak,” 136.
44. Barnard, Multiple Centres, 20; Andaya, Kingdom of Johor, 111–2.
45. Rijn van Alkemade, “Het Rijk Gassip,” 222–5.
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