as representing the? original inhabitants^!®! S®matra before
thedntroduction of arts and-refinement by the Hindoos, The
people of the Meas Islandsrdiffer'in sorae respeets from those-
of Foggiio According to Dr. Leyden the dialects <©f both
these tribes are allied to those of the Battas in f&umatra.
Paragraph 3 .^ 0 th e r S umatran Tribes. 11.
@8 The Bejan^'i-TTr-The Rejangs I live in villages under the
government of magistrates subject to a king cofi the whole1
country. They are. separated into clans, or tribes,;or kin-;
dreds. They are a civilised people, and are described by>
Mr. Marsden as giving a fair specimen of the -populaMon trf
Sumatra.
4. The Lampungs inhabit the southern rextiemity; the
island: their language differs considerably from that o f ’the
Rejangs, and they have a,peculiar alphabet.. Ofeall Suma-;
trans they have the strongest resemblance to the Chinese,
particularly in the roundness of their face and the position of
the eyes. They are the fairest people in the islandr and their-
women the fattest and esteemed the most handsome.-
5. The AcM or Achinese occupy the northern extremity of
Sumatra. Next to them towards the interior-are the tribes Of
Allas, Reeah, and Karro. The two former have the manners
of the Achinese ; the latter resemble the Battas. M b e Achi
differ extremely in their persons from the other Sumatrans;
being taller, stouter, and of darker colour. They are Mohammedan,
and are not a pure race, but supposed. to be
descended from a mixture of Battas, Malays, and Moors,
the last name being applied to Mohammedan Indians from
the Dekhan. The Achi are much superior in many respects
to the other tribes of Sumatrans.
S ection H I.-—O f the People o f Sava and the neighbouring
Islands; the Javans, Sundas, Madurans, and JBalians.
The native population of Java, Madura, and Bali use one
general lahg-uage, as. we; are; assured by the historian of Java,
Sir T. S. RaffleSj -andt exaGAly ther^anie^written character,; iand
they are intimately, connected in^eVery respects 1 Ofthis- general-
idiom there:-areh-fbur dialects drfferingjiso much from-each
other ast to, be commonly regar^led as distinct languages*? These
dialects or-languages - a re ©. nda,rspok eh by the inhabitants
ofthe mo untaindtts ^districts'1 of Java, w^,st of Tegarl; the Jawa,
which is; iSie-generalrlanguage-af'(lavas, west of Ohetjibon and
throughout the districts lying-, On the. northern coast of the
island# the Madura anddhe^Bali being'dialects
thoseislahd&irespectively." 11
. ^Besides- the Jawa-thcre isr another .languagebelonging..to>
1he Javan portion of the greater island; this* is to t ihe Jawa
y?hat the Sanskrit is to the vernacular dial^cts?;of Indians arM
the Bali to^the’-Burman and; Siamese. I have already ad^
verted-to lihdhistd^MAbesremarkable rK ^ i langiuiged l Itlis,; jj
asiwe havd.tseony; a, refined, and pafebedrJ»ngUag& fdflnedwby^
the introduction ofmumerous Sanskrit w©rt|s^engrafted on 4hd
stock 1 of; the genuine: Polynesian J&wa:-
The-Sunda' language, though now'-confined to the mountainous
districts-, was/ - previously to the Mwbamriiediaii /eon^
' version' -ofithe,people of Java- and.'the! revolution*1 therewith
conraected^the general idiom of allthe western- part I® -the
islandl «Sirs T. S. Raffles supposed it to be- the- rnost-aneieiifc-
vernacular language"of the whc& cQuntey; i tbabiS) the mofet
simple and unmixed dialecty seeing that all fthe<dialecte belong'
to one stock. The .proportion of the- people who now speak
Sunda does not exceed one-tenth of; the whole rpopnlatiom1 of
the island : the remaining nine-tehtbs speak; d^wm *Th e
Sunda language; is a simple: uncultivated dialect^ ■ adapted to
the use of the rude- mountaineers who .speak dtj and it has
escaped the influence of foreign, innovation from the peculiar
nature of the country and the independent ; character of >the
race. It possesses a considerable-proportion of words common
to it and the Malayan, and some words of Sanskrit origin
' adopted apparently from , the Javans : theseure chiefly words
of art and social improvement, •
The people of Java have so. much resemblance to the
Siamese and other nations of the Indo-Chinese peninsula