MALAYS, the name given by Europeans to the people calling themselves Orang Malayu, i.e.0 | 0 |
Till recently these apes have been generally included in the same family (Simiidae) with the chimpanzee, gorilla and orang-utan, but they are now regarded by several naturalists as representing a family by themselves - the Hylobatidae.0 | 0 |
For the purposes of this article, however, only those among these races which bear the name of Orang Malayu, speak the Malayan language, and represent the dominant people of the land, can be included under the title of Malays.0 | 0 |
The Malays to-day are Sunni Mahommedans of the school of Shafi`i, and the y habitually use the terms Orang Malayu, i.e.0 | 0 |
A Malay, and Orang Islam, i.e.0 | 0 |
In his classification it was included in the same genus as the orang-utan; and it has recently been suggested that the name Simia pertains of right to the chimpanzee rather than to the orang-utan.0 | 0 |
The natives are governed by rajas (orang kajas), the Dutch government being represented by a posthouder.0 | 0 |
The population (about 39,000) is divided into two classes- orang burger or citizens, and orang negri or villagers, the former being a class of native origin enjoying certain privileges conferred on their ancestors by the old Dutch East India Company.0 | 0 |
The orang-utang occurs, rarely, in the north-east.0 | 0 |
In the hill-country south of the lake are two forest tribes, Orang-ulu and Orang-lubu, pure savages of whom practically nothing is known, affiliated by most authorities to the Battas.0 | 0 |
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