Baikha

A dialect of Ostiak of the Yeniseian cla , spoken in Asiatic Ru ia. See Vocabulary in Latham, p. 136. Bajau or Bajou . Dialects of Malay , spoken by the Sea-gipsies. See Vocabulary in Wallace; Appdx. to “Malay Archipelago.” ⁂ “Fishmen of Borneo.” Bajau properly belongs to all Borneo. The Bugis traders, who belong to all that Archipelago, cannot properly speak Bajau. Bugis is perhaps truly the language of the pirates of those seas, their head-quarters being (the Illanons) Illanon Bay, S.W. of Mindanao, one of the Philippines.     E. B.   See Biajuk .