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term Semaug indicates a race with woolly hair and a black skin 

 seems to haye obtained a hold on several of the Negritos of Lenggong, 

 and giving these features as characteristics they tried to make it 

 plain that they had nothing to do with any such i^eople, one maw 

 saying that the Semang lived at Ijuk, another that the}^ were the 

 aborigines of Grit, and the third that they were the hill tribes who 

 live across the Perak river. It would, however, perhaps be difficult 

 to find people in the Peninsula with more woolly hair than some of 

 the individuals seen at Lenggong, while the skin colour too was often 

 extremely dark. 



Tribal organization appears to be but slightly developed. An 

 elderly man is the acknowledged head of every encampment and he 

 is to a certain extent recognized by the local Malaj's as chief of 

 the aborigines. A high sounding title, such as Penglima or Datoh, 

 is sometimes conferred on him in jest and of this he is generally 

 inordinately proud. 



PHYSICAL FEATUllES AND MEASQEEMEXTS. 



The averag'e colour of the people was a dusky chocolate, the 

 women being as a rule rather lighter than the men. Almost every 

 individual was filthily dirty, water for bathing purposes seeming to 

 be at a discount. For this reason the real skin colour is probably 

 a great many shades lighter than it appears to be ; in a few cases the 

 skin over the cheek-bones Avhich had in some manner been wiped 

 more or less clean showed up as a i-icli red brown. In addition to 

 their dirty condition about one-half tlie total population were badly 

 afflicted with " Kurap," a very unpleasant skin disease of fungoid 

 origin (Tinea circinata), and a few individuals were suffering 

 from a form of indurated ulcer. In about 70 per cent, of the 

 males the hair could be described as being of the true pepper-corn 

 type, while in almost 20 per cent, it was as sti-aight as in Malays. 

 The rareness of intermediate types was very noticeable. None of the 

 men wore their hair more than three inches long, and the majority 

 had it a great deal shorter. The women's heads were close shaven 

 with the exception of a single tuft in the median line at the back. 

 This tuft seemed to be about 9 inches to 1 foot long and the hair looked 

 harsh and frizzly. In many cases, both in men and women, the hair 

 liad a distinctly rust red tinge. With regard to facial charac- 

 teristics, the forehead was generally low and rounded, the nose low 

 at bridge and root, the nostrils broad and depressed. The eyes were 

 placed fairly wide apart, but were rather narrow. No ti^ace of 

 Mongolian fold was observeable. The lips were usually rather thick 

 than thin, but not abnormally so ; slight prognathism was common, 

 and in a few cases the lower jaw-bone was prominent and heavy at 

 its angle. 



On the exceedingly small number of measurements taken it 

 would be unwise to attempt any kind of generalization. The writer 



