1846 J. L. Stokes I. vii. 211 These lighter coloured people are Malays, captured from the Trepang fishers.
1878 P. L. Simmonds i. ix. 105 The trepang fishery of the Pacific and Eastern Seas.
1904 A. W. Howitt i. 26 The trepang fishers..are the Bugis, a Malayan people, who form the principal nation of the Island of Celebes.