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THE LIVING RACES OF MANKIND 



upland forests. When hard 

 pressed and escape seems im- 

 possible, they will climb trees 

 and stretch rattan ropes from 

 branch to branch where these 

 are too wide apart to be 

 reached at a bound, and along 

 such frail aerial bridges women 

 and all will pass with their 

 cooking-pots and other effects, 

 with their babies also at the 

 breast, and the little ones 

 clinging to their mothers' 

 heels. For, like the 

 Andamanese, they love their 

 women-folk and children, and 

 in this way rescue them from 

 the Malay raiders and slavers. 

 But, unless the British raj 

 soon intervenes, their fate is 

 sealed. They may slip from 

 the Malays, but not from their 

 own traitorous kinsmen, who 

 often lead the hunt, and squat 

 all night long on the tree- 

 tops, calling one to another 

 and signalling from these look- 

 outs when the leaves rustle 

 and the rattans are heaved 

 across; so that nothing can be 

 done, and another family group 

 is swept away into bondage." 

 A Sakai man, when looking out for a wife, goes to a considerable distance, generally to a 

 tribe who speak quite a different dialect. He gives the parents presents of considerable value, 

 which are sometimes purchased from Malays. la some cases the young man sets to work 

 and clears one or two acres of jungle, and plants it with tapioca and sugar-cane, in order to 

 present it to the parents of the girl he wishes to make his wife. 



Photo by Mr. Leonard \Yray, Perak Museum. 



NEGRITO WOMEN. 



THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. 



FORMERLY attached to British India, the Straits Settlements now form a Crown Colony, with 

 a separate administration vested in a Governor at Singapore and two others at Penang and 

 Malacca. Perak, Selangor, Negri Sembilan, Pahang, and Johor are "Protected States." Taking 

 the population of Singapore, Penang, and Malacca together, we find there are roughly speaking, 

 213,000 Malays, 228,000 Chinese, and 54,000 Klings (Indians). 



