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might not take place within the small (family ?) division or 

 " puwak," but that a man must seek a wife for himself outside. 

 They gave as an instance the parents of Pachet the head of the 

 " pUwak," whose father, they said, came from the Jelai and his 

 mother from Bukit Raya, Budu Lipis. " Man " their Malay 

 " owner " stated in the presence of the Pangan and with their 

 concurrence that, they were even more particular about marriage of 

 cousins than the Malays. The Kuala Cheka Pangan on the other 

 hand said that marriage within the puwak was allowed, and pointed 

 out an engaged couple, but the fact that the girl was the daughter of 

 the late Pangan Rajah, who had lived with the Ulu Cheka "puwak" 

 would seem to rather invalidate her claim to be called one of the 

 Kuala Cheka people. Unfortunately the writer was unable to 

 enquire further into the matter owing to the short time during 

 which he met the Pangan ; so that the existence of exogamy remains 

 a subject for further investigation. The only other fact gleaned 

 with regard to marriage customs was that although allowable, it was 

 unusual for a man to have more than one wife. 



LANGUAGE. 

 The vocabulary obtained from the Pangan of the Ulu'^Cheka 

 is published in a future number of this Journal with other 

 vocabularies. Judging by this the people seem to speak a true 

 Negrito dialect, for we have in it such distinctive words as chan 

 (foot), wong (child), chias (hand), beling (arm), kukayu (banana), 

 telabas (bear), makoh (egg), kelangis (liver or heart), ad (spear), 

 hob (jungle), haing (mouth), tenud (lip), ai or aign (father), etc. 

 Only a single numeral other than Malay forms could be obtained 

 from the Pangan this being " nai," " one." There are one or two 

 interesting words in the vocabulary which do not seem to be 

 included in the comparative vocabulary in Skeat's Pagan Races, e.g., 

 chenorong (neck), talu (old), talok (tiger). 



ON TWO PANGANS LIVING WITH THE JAKUN OF 

 KUALA RETANG. 



(Plates xxxi, xxxv.) 

 The two individuals dealt with in the following notes were 

 members of a small and nearly extinct tribe of Negritos, called Orang 

 Bukit (Hill-Men), who were said to live not far from the Kuala 

 Besut * in Trengganu. Of the two, one was a man, probably about 

 26 or 27 years old, the other, a boy, 13 or 14. The Sakai said they 

 h^d adopted them both while quite young, apparently on two 

 different occasions of their making journeys to the Besut river in 

 search of gutta-percha and other jungle produce. On questioning 

 the Sakai as to the existence of other members of this Pangan tribe 



* The Retang Sakai described the Besut country as in Kelantan, but as a 

 matter of fact the whole of the Besut river lies within Trengganu, though it is 

 not far away from the Trengganu-Kelantan border. 



