_Bandar_, or _Bandhara_, treasurer, high steward, high officer of state.
_Basaya_, tribes in the interior of Borneo Proper, locating near and resembling the Murut.
_Battara,_ one of the Dyak names of G.o.d (the Hindu _Avatara_).
_Borneo_, the island of, written "Bruni" by the inhabitants.
_Borneo Proper,_ the northern and northwestern part of the island; an independent Malay state.
_Borneons_, the Malay inhabitants of Borneo Proper.
_Bruni_, the native name for Borneo.
_Bugis_, natives of Celebes.
_Bulan_, the Moon, a poetical t.i.tle of honor to a pirate-chief.
_Campong_, a native village, or town.
_Datu_, a cape or point of land to the northwest of the river Banjama.s.sim.
_Datus_, strictly, native chiefs, heads of tribes.
_Dusun,_ agricultural villagers on the northern extremity of Borneo.
_Dyaks_; or Dyak, aborigines of Borneo, and generally p.r.o.nounced Dyah.
_Dyak Darrat,_ Land Dyaks.
_Dyak Laut,_ Sea Dyaks.
_Gantong_, a Malay measure for rice.
_Gunong_, a mountain.
_Hadji_, a Mahomedan who has made a pilgrimage to Mecca.
_Haraforas_, or _Arafuras_, natives of Papua.
_Idaans_ [Kadiens], Borneon tribes, and the name generally given to most of the varieties of the Indian Archipelago.
_Illanuns_ or _Lanuns_, pirates inhabiting the small cl.u.s.ter of islands between Borneo and Magindano.
_Jovata_, a Dyak name of G.o.d, of Hindu origin.
_Kadiens_, Borneon tribes, Mahomedans, the Idaan of preceding voyagers and writers. See _Idaans_.
_Kalamantan_, an original name of Borneo.
_Kanowit_, wild tribes in Borneo.
_Kaya_, a t.i.tle of authority, Orang Kaya de Gadong, chief man of Gadong.
_Kayans_, the most powerful and warlike people of Borneo, living inland.
_Kuching_, the former name of the town of Sarawak.
_Lubuan_, the island off Borneo river, ceded by the sultan to the British crown.
_Lelas_, guns.
_Magindano_, an island off the northeast of Borneo, the natives of which are pirates.
_Maka.s.sar_, the straits of, usually written Maca.s.sar, but more accurately Mangka.s.sar.
_Malays_, settled on the Malayan peninsula, coasts of Borneo, &c. &c., a race of seafaring character, often piratical, and conquerors of various native tribes in the Indian Archipelago.
_Malukus_, pirates from a bay in Gillolo, whose country is in the possession of the Dutch.
_Marundum_, an island off Borneo.
_Matari_, or _Mata-hari_(the eye of day), the Sun, a poetical t.i.tle of honor to a pirate-chief.
_Mias Rombi_ and _M. Pappan_, two species of ourang-outang, determined by Mr. Brooke.
_Millanows_, a tribe resembling the Kayans, living near the river Meri, river Bentulu, tolerably civilized, and fairer than the Malays.
_Minkokas_, a wild tribe near the Bay of Boni.
_Morotaba_ river, one of the mouths of the Sarawak.
_Montrado_, a very large and populous Chinese settlement near Point Data.
_Murut_, inhabitants of the interior of Borneo Proper.
_Natunas_, islands off Borneo.
_Ondong-ondong_, the written law of Borneo.
_Orang_, a man.
_Orang outang_, a wild man.
_Pangeran_, or _Pangiran_, the t.i.tle of a high Malay authority.
_Panglima_, the head warrior of a Dyak tribe.
_Patingi_, or _Patingus_, a high local officer.