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rubber shaped around the end of the inner tube. This proximal end 

 of the inner tube is slightly larger than the interior of the outer 

 tube being cased for a length of about 10 cms. with a covering of 

 bamboo rind which is slipped on over it, and adheres to it by its 

 nearer end, which is enclosed in the rubber of the mouth-piece. 

 The further end of this casing of bamboo is shaved down for a length 

 of 3 cms. so as to fit into one end of the outer tube. There is 

 thus at the proximal end of the blow-pipe a portion nine cms. long- 

 projecting from the outer tube, and consisting of the piece of the 

 inner tube cased with bamboo and the mouth-piece. The inner 

 tube proper is, as in the majority of aboriginal blow-pipes, composed 

 of two internodes (or sections of internodes) of bamboo placed end 

 to end and joined together by a tubular covering section of bamboo 

 or other material attached with some kind of vegetable glue. In 

 this case the covering section appears to be made from the outer 

 skin or wrapping of some kind of palm or rattan. The inner tube 

 does not reach quite to the further or muzzle end of the outer, and a 

 small ring of bamboo is pushed down inside the latter until its edges 

 abut on those of the inner tube. The proximal section of the inner 

 tube is very short, measuring only 59 cms. from the end of the 

 mouth-piece to the end of the covering section. The covering 

 section is 17 cms. long, and the distal section of the inner tube 

 measured from the farther end of the covering section to its muzzle 

 153 cms. The total length of the whole weapon is 232 cnas. 



THE JAKUN OF THE TEKAI lilYEii. 

 A short visit was paid to the Tekai river in company with the 

 Dato Muda Bujal, a subordinate officer of the Tembling and Tekai 

 rivers. Sections of two tribes were seen, which for the sake 

 of convenience will be referred to in the following pages as the 

 wilder and tamer tribes, respectively. 



THE TAMER JAKUN. 

 (Plate xxxii.) 

 The people have reached as high, or possibly a higher, state 

 of civilization than that of the ordinary Malay peasant of Pahang. 

 They were wearing very clean and new looking clothes of Malay 

 type and had a far more alert air than the local Tembeling Malays, 

 whe were the most apathetic people the writer has ever met. With 

 this progress in civilization the Jakun have of course become much 

 less interesting from an ethnological point of view. In their customs 

 and beliefs they no doubt remain to a certain extent unchanged, 

 but in dress, manufactures, and weapons they now almost entirely 

 follow Malay fashions. With regard to their manufactures, the 

 household implements used were exactly similar to those of the 

 local Malay ; the ))low-pipe was no longer made, and the only 

 specimen seen in the settlement, that described above, had been 

 obtained from a wandering party of Paiigan. 



