Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula - Sabrizain.org

686 APPENDIX
Nakeh-leh pechah-pTchit
Thence we broke and scattered
Menjadi rayat bawau.
To become the subjects of the sea.
Menchari hal-hidup tibu-tibar.
To seek a livelihood in scattered parties.
Jet hal chim, nakeh bddok ha-bawau.
Those who followed matters of birds,^ they fell to the sea.
Menchari hal ka'-untong.
And sought matters y^r profit.
MC-njadikan kinchu kinchet.
And begat grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
'Lor ha-bawau susor ngot.
They moved -out to the sea and skirted it not.
Menjadi kaidah^ suku waris.^
But became by division tribes and he.\xs-o/-the-soil.
Menjadi kttok.*
And became broken-up.
Gobang Gubin Buluh Bohal.
Gobang Gubin Buluh Bohal.
Bfisisi *' Trumba.'"^
Tribal Song of Origin.
Tanah Jati, tanah Ilendau.
The countr}' (y'Jati, the country of the Endau.
Tcrjatoh " ka-tanah Johor Lama'.
IVe come to-M^-land ^ Johor old.
Tengki-tengkel Jtram Lama'.
^Tengki-tengkel Jilram old.
/'Naning Naneng'^ Batin Baruis.
At Naning Naneng was Batin Baruis.
Batin Banggai-punya' asal.
Batin Banggai-his or\gm-was.
Bukit Nuang, Bukit Galah.
JJukit Nuang, Bukit Galah.
1 Because birds were more plentiful lines except where indicated by the
on the coast than inland. brackets. Each line is, however,
2 Or assigned to. nevertheless complete in itself ; that
3 In the Negri Sembilan the Malay is to say, where there are two or
Waris, or "heirs of the soil," claim more place-names occur in a line, they
descent in the female line from always come together and in the order
aborigines. given, it being only the order of the
* I.e. divided. lines that varies (except as indi-
6 As to these genealogical and tradi- cated). " Lit. fell upon,
tional songs and sayings, see vol. ii. p.
164 Jis^i^. and notes thereupon. There is
"^ Qu. the Malay form of the name
-f the Besisi form : cp. " turun chelui "
no settled order in singing these on p. 687.
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