[527] Von Rosenberg, _op. cit._ Vol. I. p. 189. Amongst the points of close resemblance may be mentioned the outriggers, for which Mentawi has the same word (_abak_) as the Samoan (_va'r_ = _vaka_); the funeral rites; taboo; the facial expression; and the language, in which the numerical systems are identical; cf. Ment. _limongapula_ with Sam. _limagafulu_, the Malay being _limapulah_ (fifty), where the Sam. infix _ga_ (absent in Malay) is pronounced _gna_, exactly as in Ment. [528] See Fr. Mueller, _Ueber den Ursprung der Schrift der Malaiischen Voelker_, Vienna, 1865; and my Appendix to Stanford's _Australasia_, First Series, 1879, p. 624. [529] _Die Mangianenschrift von Mindoro, herausgegeben von A. B. Meyer u. A. Schadenberg_, speciell bearbeitet von W. Foy, Dresden, 1895; see also my remarks in _Journ. Anthr. Inst._ 1896, p. 277 sq. [530] The Rejang, which certainly belongs to the same Indo-Javanese system as all the other Malaysian alphabets, has been regarded by Sayce and Renan as "pure Phoenician," while Neubauer has compared it with that current in the fourth and fifth centuries B.C. The suggestion that it may have been introduced by the Phoenician crews of Alexander's admiral, Nearchus (_Archaeol. Oxon._ 1895, No. 6), could not have been made by anyone aware of its close connection with the Lampong of South, and the Batta of North Sumatra (see also Prof. Kern, _Globus_, 70, p. 116). [531] Sing. _Batta_, pl. _Battak_, hence the current form _Battaks_ is a solecism, and we should write either _Battas_ or _Battak_. Lassen derives the word from the Sanskrit _b'hata_, "savage." [532] Again confirmed by Volz and H. von Autenrieth, who explored Battaland early in 1898, and penetrated to the territory of the "Cannibal Pakpaks" (_Geogr. Journ._, June, 1898, p. 672); not however "for the first time," as here stated. The Pakpaks had already been visited in 1853 by Von Rosenberg, who found cannibalism so prevalent that "Niemand Anstand nimmt das essen von Menschenfleisch einzugestehen" (_op. cit._ 1. p. 56).