WANDERING ON THE WAVES ‘Sebastian Hope travels to the waters off the Malay Pe ly disappearing lifestyle of Indonesia's semi-nomadic sea gypsies the'ray rr eer) reveals more blue than green, Sor om meen eet Rear e ay ‘another and making each different. The eg from the Malay Peninsula seem to con- PP firm this view. The high degree of eed Coens Rite cere on ene een ea ay ee een Sona egos Pee ere) Nee mee a ‘enabled the Malay peoples to spread out en es es eta Set eee | refer to their country as Tanah Air Kita, ee eC) pee ene eed are es nection to the land is more tenuous. et cures Pee eon eee es ee ect eae ee) ‘was told about them I was captivated. Riese eset estes ae em former boatdwellers who lived in the ee eee a een ee ee) PS een ec) my coe ed people living on their oat, his cousins Paar eet hs Reena i a Sere er et ee diate, and when the opportunity did ee emery etree rs Pers ns among the islands of the Sulu perenne nrg eres fof Moslem resistance tothe Manila gor ee ee eC collateral violence prompted a wave of eer ea the migrants were many Bajau boat: ee eae Seen ne ene part of their range. That seemed to me toes Renmcstn ec es oer ene as Se ee reer eee ck fleet, which anchored at Mabul Island. ccna tn ae rere ce Rca cr Peer ere eae Perea ear ae eee ene ar Sete ee acy Pen The Bajau once used an elegant sail- een eee p ae is mw uncer vet insula in an effort to document ‘Soran chet ofthe Baja ave fing fleet poles ack or Sea Baju.have fed. the waters ofthe Slr ‘Archipelago fo enue but the fre ofthese semriomedicpeoplere vessel Below ie his nets Opposite: and cutwater called a Kipwlépa, But : bos diesel s long and two in the beam and diate trip to i Sarani, his second wife Minehanga and thelr three young children, ddled over in their ne initial strangeness - on both ini would then set out in he shallow reef, which was woke early one planks of the ere Las, ' work ahe