. The cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea : with notices of Formosa, Liu-Kiu, and various islands of the Malay archipelago. Marchesa (Schooner yacht); Natural history; Natural history. 80 THE SULU ISLANDS. [chap. although perhaps not actually regional, is quite as striking as that which Mr. Wallace has shown to exist at the Lombok Strait. ]\Ir. Burl)idge, in the work already quoted, states that the Sulu language " approaches that spoken by the inland tribes of North Borneo," ^ a statement in which I venture to think that he was mistaken. It appears to be closely all
. The cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea : with notices of Formosa, Liu-Kiu, and various islands of the Malay archipelago. Marchesa (Schooner yacht); Natural history; Natural history. 80 THE SULU ISLANDS. [chap. although perhaps not actually regional, is quite as striking as that which Mr. Wallace has shown to exist at the Lombok Strait. ]\Ir. Burl)idge, in the work already quoted, states that the Sulu language " approaches that spoken by the inland tribes of North Borneo," ^ a statement in which I venture to think that he was mistaken. It appears to be closely allied to the Tagalog, and the so-called Bisayan of the riiilippine Islands, but to abound with. A SULU GIRL. Malay and Javanese words, which have doubtless been introduced with Mohammedanism. The Arabic character is, I believe, the only one in use in the archipelago, but there are probably not many of the natives who are acquainted with the art of writing. Malay is very generally spoken by the coast dwellers, especially on the western side of the island, but in the interior it is little known except by the ; The history of the archipelago, were it written, would consist of ^ There are of course many settlements of the Sulus in North Borneo, especiall}- in the neighbourhood of the Kiuabatangan. Perhaps it is to these that Mv. Burbidge refers. 2 Fide Appendix lA^. on the Sulu Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Guillemard, F. H. H. (Francis Henry Hill), 1852-1933. London : J. Murray
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