therefoi'e contents himself with mei-ely giving the results obtained 

 and pointing out that the cephalic indices of the individual ranged 

 from brachycephaly to mesaticephaly. All persons measured were 

 adult males. 



MEASTJEKJIENTS IN MILLIMETRES. 



Continuous intercourse with both Malays and Chinese has had 

 anything but a liappy effect on the aborigines of Lenggong. While 

 still retaining much of the timidity of jungle men, they have 

 substituted for their primitive good qualities, lying, deceitfulne.ss and 

 rapacity. Some few have been further demoralized by the vice of 

 opium smoking, with which it is probable that some Chinaman or 

 Malay has infected them of set purpose in order that they might 

 become pei'manantly attached to him owing to their craving for the 

 drug. In spite of their faults thej- seem to be, when in their own 

 encampments, a inei-ry and cheerful little people. 



4)RESS AND ADORNMENT. 



In visiting the Xegrito encampments the tiling which perhaps 

 struck the writer most was the people's great love of dre.ssing n\) and 

 their fondness for using flowers for this purpose. The young bloods 

 seemed to do little else in their sjjare time and many of them had 

 decorated their heads with wi-eaths of purple and white everlasting 

 flowers (^lalay, Bunga tiga bulan) which wei-e threaded on the stalks 

 of some fibrous plant ; head-dresses of yellow l)lossoms were also in 

 favour, and one lio}- liad on a fillet of green pandanus leaf decorated 

 with }ellow flowers at tlie top. Other men wore head-bands of Akar 

 batu, a fungus rhizomorph which is very generally believed by the 

 aborigines of the Peninsula to be a cliarm against hnjan panas 

 {lit. hot rain), "April showers." At such times the evil spirits 

 of the air are, accoi-ding to native legendry, said to have power 

 of bringing disaster to moi-tals. Fevei- is much dreaded by both 

 Sakai and Semang and is often said to be the result of " hujan 

 panas." Three youths in the Lenggong encampment were wearing 

 thick bands of twisted s:rass around their foreheads, tied at the back 



