[1] The spelling of proper names used throughout this paper is that adopted by the author and differs in some respects from that in use in the Division of Ethnology.—Editor.
[2] This settlement is on a small adjacent island of the same name.
[3] An officer next below a datu in rank.
[4] An officer next below a panglima in rank.
[5] The word Tumangtangis means “Shedder of tears.” As the summit of this mountain is the last object to be seen by sailors leaving the island, they weep from homesickness when they lose sight of it.
[6] Quoted in Keppel’s “Visit to the Indian Archipelago,” p. 70.
[7] Some maps place this mountain near Tu’tu’, but reliable Moros apply the name to the mountain west of Si’it and nearer to Su’ than to Tu’tu’.
[8] Princess Ipil and her followers were wrecked and drowned at this point. Their bodies are said to have turned into stone and formed the rocks that line the shore. Some of the rocks seemed to the people to resemble petrified human beings.
[9] Names of fruits with no English equivalents.