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The New International Encyclopædia/Selungs

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Edition of 1905. See also Moken people on Wikipedia; and the disclaimer.

SELUNGS′. The inhabitants of the Mergui Archipelago in the eastern part of the Bay of Bengal, off the coast of Tenasserim; a primitive, seafaring people of doubtful ethnological relations. They are probably a branch of the Indonesian race. Consult Anderson, The Selungs (London, 1890).