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bitten," at any rate so far as the Malay is concerned, for he is 

 notoriously unscrupulous in his dealings with the aborigines. The 

 Chinaman has a better name for fair dealing than the Malay, but 

 even he probably takes care to make his cent, per cent, over every 

 transaction. Two of the Ijok people were opium smokers, one 

 an old man, the head of the tribe, the other a young fellow of 

 nineteen or twenty. They seem to obtain supplies of the drug 

 either from the miners at Klian Gunong or else from some shops 

 a little further down the valley. 



DRESS AXD ADORNMENT. 



The men all wore loin-cloths or chawats of European-made cloth 

 as their sole garment, but several of them were decorated with 

 bracelets of akar batu, and necklaces of the same material, the 

 strands being tied together in a knot in front. Strings of glass 

 beads worn crossed over the breast were also popular, and one young 

 man had a regular collar formed of a long string of beads wound 

 round and round the neck. The women all affected short skirts 

 made from the common cotton sarongs worn by the Malays. Two 

 forms of woman's dress of purely Negrito type were, however, 

 obtained, though not seen in use ; one was a short skirt of aJcar hatu 

 the other a similar garment made of narrow strips of terap bark 

 depending from a string of the same material. Two long necklaces 

 of lotong monkey teeth interspersed with small glass beads were also 

 purchased. These are worn by the women or children. The winter 

 made enquiries as to the use of bark-cloth T-bandages, but was told 

 that they were no longer worn : one of the men, however, in order 

 to show that bark-cloth could still be made manufactured a loin-cloth 

 from ipoJi biirk and another from terap bark and brought them in to 

 sell. Women's combs of bamboo decorated with typical Negrito 

 patterns were common, and five specimens were purchased. One or 

 two bracelets of plaited rattan were also collected as well as a pair 

 of armlets of spirally twisted brass wire. The latter were, however, 

 said to have been obtained from the Orang Bukit {i.e., from one 

 of the trans-Pei'ak River Semang-Sakai tribes.) 



WEAPONS. 

 The weapons in use among the Semang of Ijok do not differ 

 in any particular from those of the people of Lenggong. The blovv- 

 pipes of their own manufacture always have the inner tube composed 

 of two sections of bamboo placed end to end, and united by a 

 covering section of the same material over the joint. Blow-pipes 

 with the inner tube made from a single section of bamboo are 

 occasionally to be seen, but these are procured from other tribes. 

 The mouth-piece of all the blow-pipes examined was spheroidal and 

 composed either of wood, or of wood with a covering of " getah " 

 (rubber of some sort). The outer tubes were either not decorated at 

 all, or had merely a few incised circles running round them at the 



