Now, if in addition to this partial success of the Anglo-Saxon mission, there had been a partial Anglo-Saxon colonization as well, and if, side by side with this, fragments of the old unmodified Paganism had survived amongst the fens and forests up to the present time, we should have had, in the relations of England and Germany, precisely what I imagine to have been the case with the Malayan peninsula and the island of Sumatra. Like Germany, the peninsula would have supplied the original stock to the island; but, in the island, that stock would have undergone certain modifications. With these modifications it would--so to say--have been _reflected_ back upon the continent--_re_-colonizing the old mother-country. Now just what the Old Saxons of Westphalia were to the Anglo-Saxons of the eighth century, are the Jakun to the true Malays. They differ from them in being something other than Mahometan; _i.e._, in being nearly what the Mahometan Malays were before their conversion. The Jakun are Malays, _minus_ those points of Malay civilization which are referable to the religion of the Koran. But the Jakun are only a few out of many; a single branch of a great stem. The most convenient term for the members in general of this class is _Orang Binua_--a term already explained. _The Biduanda Kallang._--The next, then, of the _Orang Binua_ that comes in contact with a British dependency--many others _not_ thus politically connected with us being passed over--are the _Biduanda Kallang_ of the parts about Sincapore. Their present locality is the banks of the most southern of the rivers of the peninsula, the Pulai. Thither they were removed when the British took possession of the island of Sincapore; of which they were previously the joint occupants--joint occupants, because they shared it with the tribe which will be next mentioned. They were an _Orang Laut_ in one sense of the word, but not in another. _Orang_ means _men_ or _people_, and _laut_ means _sea_ in Malay; and the Biduanda Kallang were boatmen rather than agriculturists. But they were only freshwater sailors; since, though they lived on the water, they avoided the open sea. They formerly consisted of one hundred families; but have been reduced by small-pox to eight. Their priest or physician is called _bomo_, and he invokes the _hantu_, or deities, the _anito_ of the Philippine Islanders, the _tii_ of the Tahitians; and, probably, the _Wandong_ and _Vintana_ of Australia and Madagascar respectively. They bury their dead after wrapping the corpse in a mat; and placing on the grave one cup of woman's milk, one of water, and one of rice; when they entreat the deceased to seek nothing more from them. Persons of even the remotest degree of relationship are forbidden to intermarry.