ABSTRACT
Forrest, Voyage to the Meygui Archipelago, remarks on the derivation ~f " Jan Sylan," p. 30, " Probably the name was given to it before it became an island at high water, and before it was disjoined from the corltinent as it is at present: the word oojong being a Malay word signifying point, and the inhabitants in general speaking Malay, from their intercourse ~it~ t~at people,. had it been considered as an island, the' word PUlo, slgmfymg Island 1D the same tongue, a word of easy pronunciation, if once affixed to it, would most probably never have left it."
