ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE SEMANG PAY A OF l.JOK, 

 SBLAMA, PERAK. 



By HERBERT C. ROBINSON AND C. BODEN KLOSS. 



(Plates XVIT-XXV). 



^ j^HE following notes taken by us on a visit to Ijok in March, 1909, 

 refer to the same tribe, and indeed to practically the same 

 individuals as those visited by Mr. Evans, forming the subject of 

 the previous paper. Insomuch as they are accompanied by a 

 number of photographs and measurements and a fairly full 

 vocabulary * we have thought it worth while to publish them, 

 though a certain amount of material, dealing with primitive beliefs 

 and psychology has unfortunately been mislaid. 



I.— RANGE OP TRIBE. 



The Negrito people forming the subject of the present notes 

 are at the present day confined to a district stretching from Selama 

 and the Krian river on the north to Batu Kurau on the south ; 

 eastward they are limited by the crest of the Larut range of 

 mountains, which terminates in Gunong Bintang, a mountain over 

 6,000 feet in height, while westward they probably never cross the 

 railway running into Province Wellesley or venture into Kedah. 



In former days, as we were informed by their present headman, 

 their range extended to Kuala Kux'au and Kuala Larut on the 

 sea coast and even so far south as Bruas but the destruction of jungle 

 due to the advance of cultivation and the spread of population, 

 Malay and foreign, now confines them to their present narrow limits. 



To the north-west they are in contact with the Negritos of, 

 Kedah, centring in Sidin and Baling, the former of whom 

 occasionally cross the Perak boundary at Ulu Selama while eastwards 

 they are in more intimate relations with the closely allied tribe 

 inhabiting, according to one of its members, the eastern slopes of the 

 Larut range, down to the Perak river, from Kuala Kenering, south to 

 Kota Tampin and Kuala Plus. With these latter they intermarry. 



It seems evident that the Semang Paya are a tribe rapidly 

 approaching extinction, and that the day is not far distant, when 

 there will no longer be left any representatives of the primitive 

 jungle dwellers, who formerly inhabited the extensive tract of 

 country between the Perak river and the sea. It should be noted, 

 however, that this is the first time that Negritos have been recorded 

 south of Taiping and that the evidence, such as it is, is solely 

 traditional. 



* To appear in a subsequent number of the Museums Journal. 



