NOTES ON THE ABORIGINES OF THE ULU LANG AT 

 AND KENABOI DISTRICTS OF SELANGOR AND 



JELEBU. 



By I. H. EVANS, b.a., 



Assistant Curator and Ethnographical Assistant, F.M.S. Museums. 



n^HE following ethnographical notes were made in July and. 

 August, 1912, during a fifteen days' expedition to the boi'ders of 

 Selangor and Jelebu. The starting point of the trip was Dusun Tua 

 in the Ulu Langat district of Selangor, Tvhile the route taken was 

 up the Langat river from tlie 19th milestone on the high road. On 

 leaving the Langat its affluent the Pilas was followed for some little 

 distance ; then the divide, Bukit Chanchang Seharau, lying between 

 Gunong Itam and Gunong Hantu, climbed, and the descent made to 

 the Kenaboi river by way of its tributary the Sungei Kring. The 

 valley of the Kenaboi was followed down to the rest-house at 

 Kongkoi, and from that place a thi'ce days' expedition was made to a 

 Sakai kampong not far from the Kenaboi Hydraulic Mine. Dusuns 

 (orchards) and other signs of Sakai occupation were extremely 

 frequent up tlie Langat river and as far as the foot of the divide, and 

 altogether three villages were passed through. Settlements of the 

 aborigines on the Kenaboi side seem to be much less frequent and 

 only a single village was met with in the extreme "ulu" (upper 

 watershed)* One kampong, of which all the inhabitants had gone 

 out to work, was situated some seven or eight miles above Kongkoi, 

 while a small party of men and women were met in the jungle on 

 the same da3\ 



The trip from Dusun Tua to Kongkoi occupied altogether eight 

 days, but two were practically wasted owing to the late arrival and 

 insufficient numbei's of the Sakai coolies on the first day and the 

 time taken in getting more men on the second. Coolies were difficult 

 to obtain owing to the durian season being at its height. 



ORIGIN OF THE PEOPLE OP THE LANGAT AND 

 KENABOI VALLEYS. 



The Sakai who live near the 24th milestone, Dusun Tua, who 

 were my coolies as far as Kongkoi. informed me that the people of 

 the Ulu Langat and the Ulu Kenaboi were all of one race, and this 

 fact was confirmed by the people of the village near Kenaboi 

 Hydraulic Mine, who recognized the names of the Dusun Tua men 

 and told me that they were related to many of them by blood or 

 marriage. The three vocabularies made out, as below, one in the 

 Ulu Langat, one in the extreme L"lu Kenaboi, and one near the 

 Hydraulic Mine seem to afford proof of the same thing. The Langat 

 Sakai acknowledge the names of Blandas, Orang Bukit or Sakai 

 Tanjong, but seem to have a preference for the latter. The legends 

 concerning the origin of the peoples which were obtained on either 



