Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula - Sabrizain.org

xii PREFACE
present form because it was felt that the point of
religion (as between Mohammedan and non-Moham-
medan) was perhaps a better dividing line, on account
of its definiteness, than the vague, indefinite, and
perhaps undefinable, quality of wildness.
The title-page bears the names of two authors, but
by far the greater part of the book (including the Intro-
duction) was written by the one whose name stands
first, the special task of the other having been confined
to writing the part dealing with Language, together
with the Appendix relating thereto, in the second
volume. Each author has, as far as possible, revised
and checked the work of the other, but the ultimate
responsibility of each is to be apportioned to his own
share of the book.
Moreover, though the authors themselves have
contributed the greater part of the original material
which the book contains, they are indebted to others
for a considerable amount of hitherto unpublished
information, which has greatly enhanced the value of
the work. Their acknowledgments are particularly
due to Messrs. D. F. A. Hervey, C.M.G., H. Clifford,
C.M.G., F. Emeric, A. Grubauer, C. D. Bowen,
N. Annandale, H. C. Robinson, G. B. Cerruti, and
H. Ling Roth, the Rev. H. E. Luering, Father W.
Schmidt, Professor Rudolf Martin, and the Councils
of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and
Ireland, and the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic
Society respectively, for information relating directly
to the aborigines of the Peninsula and their lan-
guages ;
and to Messrs. A. Cabaton, A. Lavallee, the