466 THE WILD TRIBES OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 



and a side view of the face sometimes shows some prognathism or 

 projection of the lower part of the facial area. 



The hair is of a very dark brownish black (never blue black, as 

 among Chinese and Malays). It grows in short spiral tufts, curling 

 close!}' all over the scalp, if not shaved off, as it very frequently is. 



The height of the Sakai does not materially differ from that of the 

 Semang," but the color of the skin is very much lighter than that of 

 the Negritos, and sometimes shows a reddish tinge about the breast 

 and extremities. The head is dolichocephalic, or long shaped. The 

 face is inclined to be long, and would be hatchet shaped Init for the 

 breadth of the cheek bones, which help to give it rather an elliptical 

 outline. The chin is commonly long and pointed; the forehead rather 

 high and flat, but brows often beetling, the notch above the nose being 

 very deep; the nose small, often slightly tilted or rounded off at the 

 tip, but at the same time broad and with very deep-set nostrils. The 

 beard usually consists of a few long and frizzly chin hairs, remarkabh' 

 like that of the Veddas of Ceylon, but in some cases it certainly grows 

 long and bushy. 



The third class (the savage Malays or Jakuns) is hard to identify, as 

 it has received a large admixture of Semang and Sakai blood. Never- 

 theless, the pure type is, I think, recognizable and will be found to 

 differ widely from both of the two types already mentioned. 



They (the Jakuns) are a little taller than the Sakais or Semangs. 

 Their head is brachycephalic or rounded, their skin olive brown to 

 dark copper. Their face has a flattened appearance, and their lower 

 jaw is inclined to be square. Their nose is somewhat stumpy — i. e., 

 thick and short— but with wide-open nostrils. Their cheek bones are 

 high and well marked, like those of the Malays and Chinese. Their 

 eyes are black and of moderate size. Their mouth is large and broad. 

 Their hair straight or lank, and with a bluish-black tinge to it, not 

 unlike that of the Malays themselves. Their beard is scanty. 



In addition to the foregoing three main types we have perhaps 

 naturally, in spite of their antagonistic elements, a good many instances 

 of mixed tribes, most of which can, if the purest types be taken as 

 standards, be resolved with a fair amount of certainty into their 

 original ingredients. 



There are many physiological points about all these tribes which 

 would be of great interest if 1 had time to go into them. Their arm 

 stretch, for instance, is almost always greater, sometimes much greater, 

 than their height. Their feet are unusuallv short and stum})v and 

 splayed, with a remarkable inward curve of the great toe, the prehen- 

 sile character of which enables them, when spoiled by domestication, to 

 ibecome v^ry clever at stealing. I have seen Semangs run u\) trees by 



«For the information about the Sakais (as well as for the type photoj^raj)!!) I am 

 very deeply indebted to my iriend Jiudolf JNJartiu- 



