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MUSICAL IXSTRUMENTS. 



The only musical instrunu'iits seen were flutes, bamboo stampers 

 and the ^olian bamboo. The last named were common in the 

 village near the Kenaboi Mine. Measurements by finger breadth 

 are used in making the stops of a flute. In an example with three 

 stops which was obtained, the second stop was two finger breadths 

 above the lowest and the third four finger breadths from the 

 second. 



LANGUAGE. 



The language used by all the aborigines met with was Malay 

 interspersed with a few non-Malay elements. The pronunciation 

 and intonation Avere somewhat rov^gh and final k's were sounded. 

 The vocabularies obtained from these people both in the Ulu Langat 

 and Ulu Kenaboi are pi-actically indentical f and seem on tlie evidence 

 of such words as are non-Malay to belong to the Mantra group of 

 dialects. Examples of non-Malay or ai'chaic words ai-e given 

 below : 



English. Malay. ^ ocabulary taken ■ trour near 



au Liu Langat. j,^.^^^,^^. Kenaboi. 



Mine. 



* Stands for Malay word used. 



t The second vocabulary was obtained fi-om a stujiid and suspicious native at 

 whose house a half-hour's halt was made. It is probably very incomplete. 



