ORANG, a Malay word meaning a people, a race.
Orang Baju, or Baju Laut, seafaring people.
Orang Binua, the people of the country, the aborigines. The Malay of the Peninsula often designate, by the term Orang Binua, the Udai, Jakun, Mintira, Sakai, and Besisi, the five tribes occupying the lands around the lofty Gunong Bernum, or Bernum Hill.
The Orang Binua of Johore occupy all the interior of Johore over which the Tamungong rules. They also possess the interior of the most southerly portion of Pahang. They occupy the upper branches of the rivers Johore (the Lingiu and the Sayong), Binut, Pontian, Batu Pahat or Rio Formosa (the Simpang Kiri, Pau, and Sim with their numerous affluents), and Indau (the Anak Indau, Simrong, and Made), with the country watered by them. By means of these rivers a constant communication is maintained between the families of the Binua on the two sides of the Peninsula. No Binua were found on the river Johore below the junction of the Sayong and Liugiu. There are none on the Falai ; and the aboriginal families on the Tama° and Sako dai, which fall into the old Straits of Singapore (Orang Sabimba) were, about A.A. 1840, imported by the Tamungong from the islands of Battam to the south of Singapore, for the purpose of collect ing taban (gutta-percha). The river noinades (I3iclutuida Kallang or Orang Sletar) and the sea nomades (Orang Tambusa), termed also Orang Laut and Ryot Laut, people of the sea, etc., who lurk about the estuaries and creeks of the Johore, Libbam, and other rivers along the southern coast of the Peninsula, are distinct from the Orang Binua, and cut off from all communi cation with them. Binua have never been known on the upper part of the Sidili, although it has its source in the same mountains where the Johore and the Made rise. On the north-west they do not extend beyond the Simpang Kin and Pau.
About half a day's walk from the source of the former rises an affluent of the river Muar, called Sungei Pago, which gives its name to a tribe found on its banks and amongst the adjacent hills. The Binua describe the Orang Pago as a wild race, naked, without houses, shunning all intercourse with tho Malays, and having very little intercourse even with them. They are probably a secluded
and rude branch of the Udai, or of the Jakun.
Orang Gunong, people of the mountains, hill men of Malay Peninsula and Banca.
Orang Gugu and Orang Kubu arc two uncivil ised races in the interior of Sumatra.
Orang Laut or sea-people, also called Ryot Laut, are similar in their habits to the Baju Laut, and are found upon the coasts of Borneo and Celebes ; but, though belonging to it, they can scarcely be said to inhabit the island, for they live entirely in their little prahus, and sail about the coasts. They subsist principally by fishing, and it is said that they were always ready to give information to the piratical rovers. The arms of the Orang Laut are the limbing, or lance ; the tampuling, a large hook ; the kujore, a sort of spear with a very broad head, used in fishing ; and the sertunpong, a sort of prong. In Borneo, three distinct tribes live in prahus, and wander. about the shores of the island,—the Lanun from Magindanao, and the Orang Baju and Orang Tidong, source unknown. The Dyak are the Orang Binua, or aboriginal inhabitants of Borneo. They are scattered in small tribes over the face of the island, those inhabiting the banks of the large rivers being generally under the dominion of one more power ful than the rest ; but the tribes which reside in the depths of the forests, where tho communica tion between them is more difficult, are generally perfectly distinct from each other.
Orang Malayu is the Malay race.
Orang Menangkabau, the people of Menang kabau.
Orang Selat, the Cellates of Valentyn, men of the Straits of Malacca ; Selat, MALAY, a strait. These seem the same with the Orang Sletar, with the Biduanda Kallang, joint occupants of Singapore. They speak a Malay dialect with a guttural accent.
Orang Rawa, a people of Rawa, Raw or Ara m Siunatra, inunediatelyto the north of Menangkabau, and penetrated by the large but scarcely navigable river Rakan.
Ornng Selong, a maritime people of the Malay Archipelago.