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Kayans, Dusuns and oUier blow-pipe using tribes of Borneo, where 

 the blow-pipe is in use, the instrument is also grasped close to the 

 mouth-piece but the right hand is placed above the left and both 

 have their backs directed upwards. 



MUSICAL INSTEUMENTS. 

 The only musical instruments seen were the bamboo stamper, 

 the bamboo jews' harp and a peculiar kind of earth-drum made by 

 digging a hole about a foot and a half square in the ground and 

 sti-etching tightly over it a piece of tree bark tied between two 

 short posts driven into the earth one on either side of the hole. 



OTHER MANUFACTURES. 

 Besides weapons, articles of dress, and musical instruments the 

 Negritos appeared to possess very few articles of their own manufac- 

 ture ; rough mats made of some species of Pandanus were, however, 

 fairly common, while porcupine quills, indistinguishable from those 

 worn in the nose, were used as implements in making them. 

 Graters, for shredding the tubers of jungle yams and made from the 

 stems of a kind of rattan {rotan sent) with the thorny spathe still 

 adhering were in use, as were also small wooden pestles and mortars 

 for pounding up condiments. Pandanus pouches for holding tobacco 

 or the materials for betel chewing were common : one rather fine 

 specimen with an inner lining of the same material and ornamented 

 on the outside with black patterns was obtained for the Museum. 



RELIGION, SUPERSTITION AND LEGENDS. 

 As among the aborigines of Lenggong, enquiries as to the 

 existence of any definite forms of religious belief were productive of 

 purely negative results, but while questioning the Semang as to their 

 explanations of several common natural phenomena a little 

 interesting information was obtained and also a single legend. The 

 latter is not new, but the Ijok form is given below, as it differs from 

 other versions in a few particulars. 



LEGEND OF THE ORIGIN OF THE SEMANG. 

 Told by the Headman of the Semang. 



" Our origin was the same as that of the Malays. 



" Once upon a time the King of the Mawas* monkeys. Rajah 

 Mawas, fought with the King of Siamangf monkeys. Rajah Siamang, 

 in the country where our ancestors lived. Our ancestors ran away 

 from the place they lived in, being frightened by the wai% and hid 

 themselves in a plain covered with tall lalang grass. The Rajah 

 Mawas beat the Rajah Siamang and the latter with his people ran 

 away and hid in the same plain as our ancestors. The Rajah Mawas 

 came and set fire to the grass and the Rajah Siamang with his 

 people ran away and crossed the Perak river. Our ancestors did 

 not run away, having hid themselves in porcupine burrows in order 



* The Mawas is Hylobaien sp. f The Siamang is Symphalangtis sp. 



