34 THE TRAVELLING FORESTER IN ASIA. [Nov. 



an important little place, with its regular streets of brick and tiled 

 houses. Established in the j'ear 1859, they have gradually increased 

 their plant until they have become perhaps the most extensive of the 

 kind in Asia. His Highness the Maharaja gave facilities and 

 encouragement to a few private individuals to set them agoing, and 

 from their foundation up to the present time large quantities of 

 manufactured timber have been shipped to China, India, Ceylon, 

 Mauritius, Java, etc., besides supplying local demands. 



THE MALAY WOODCUTTERS 



employed to bring the timlier from the forest, go in parties of 

 from six to ten, taking their wives and children with them. 

 They get an advance, with which they purchase tools, a boat, rice, 

 etc., and depart for the forest, where they build a hut of a temporary 

 kind. OjDerations are commenced by clearing the jungle and laying 

 down longitudinally a double line of spars wliereon to roll out the 

 logs as they are felled. In a month tlie head-man comes for a 

 further advance, and reports progress. The raft then makes its 

 appearance, and the price is fixed and the balance paid. When the 

 money is spent, another party is made up, and the work is carried on 

 in precisely the same way, the wives and children helping to haul 

 the logs out. 



THE ABORIGINES OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 



The aliorigines of the forests on the Malay peninsula are few in 

 number and seldom seen. They lead a solitary and precarious life 

 in the depths of the jungle, subsisting on wild fruits, roots, and the 

 flesh of the deer, wild pig, plandok, and what birds they are able to 

 kill with the sumpitan and arrow, or catch by using gutta as bird- 

 lime. They collect gutta-percha and other forest produce, and 

 exchange the same with the Malaj's for a little rice, tobacco, salt, or 

 fish. At one time their mode of dealing was to deposit the produce 

 which they had collected at a certain place, leave it there, and return 

 hoping to find in its stead a quantity of the articles they require. 

 They live in trees, sometimes in rude temporary huts on the ground, 

 seldom remaining long in one spot. Their clothing generally con- 

 sists of a piece of well-beaten bark of a tree wi-apped round the loins, 

 and a piece of the same round the head. So very low are they in 

 the scale of humanity, that they are sometimes spoken of as the 

 orang-outang people of the woods. 



The Orang Laut, or sea people, in appearance are closely allied to 

 them, though they speak a different language ; they live in small 

 boats, paddling up the creeks and rivers, and living principally on 



