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they could obtain from their Malay protector in return for jungle 

 produce, and partly on tubers which they dug up in the jungle and 

 roasted in the ashes of their fires. The corn crop was just beginning 

 to ripen so they were only able to pick a few heads from it each day. 

 They probably added to the menu by shooting animals and birds 

 with their blow -pipes. Fish are easy to obtain in the Cheka river, 

 either by means^of traps or with rod and line. 



PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND MEASUREMENTS. 



With regard to the aborigines of the Ulu Cheka, the four men 

 and one women seen might all be said to be fairly typical Negritos. 

 The skin colour was dark brown to black and the hair woolly and of 

 the sooty dry-looking colour commonly found among the Perak 

 Semang. Three of the men very much resembled in facial 

 appearance the Pangan of the Ulu Aring, Kelantan, of whom a 

 picture is given in Skeat's Pagan Races (Vol. II, p. 777) : the fourth 

 man, Pachet the leader of the partly, had a rather childish facial 

 expression,* like that to be so often seen in the Semang. Among 

 the Kuala Cheka people it was noticeable that some of the younger 

 members of the party were much less typical than their elders, for 

 instance the young man, the second from the left in plate xxvii has 

 hair which is as straight as that of the average Malay, while that of 

 the other three members of the group is more or less typical. The 

 woman who is the central figure in plate xxix (upper figure) 

 is again not typical, the hair being rather wavy than frizzly 

 and the skin comparatively light : her whole appearance being 

 in fact rather Sakai than Negrito. On the other hand the 

 little girl on the left of the same picture, besides having rather 

 typical hair, had a skin almost as black as that of a West 

 African negress, this character being well shown in plate xxvi 

 where she appears again. The other woman of the three 

 photographed was fairly true to Negrito type, having frizzly hair, a 

 dark brown skin, and a rather infantile type of face. The man 

 shown in plate xxx had the most truly Negrito hair seen among 

 the Cheka Pangan, each cui"! being tightly wound into a little ball, 

 the hair foi-mation differing only from that of a South African 

 Bushman in the lesser extent of skin visible between each curl. 

 This is best shown in the right hand figure. The writer paid a 

 second visit to Kuala Cheka after leaving the Tekai in order to make 

 sure of getting some fairly clear photographs, as those obtained 

 on the first occasion when he met the Kuala Cheka Pangan had 

 been taken undei bad weather conditions : unfortunately, however, 

 this man had shaved his head in the interval. The Batin, who was 

 in charge of the Kuala Cheka Pangan, had a small chin-tuft beard, 

 as had also Songsong an Ulu Cheka man. 



* The photographs taken in tlie Uhi Cheka unfortunately did not turn out 

 well enough to rej^roduce. 



