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of certain tribes, notably in Pahang, who undertake long 

 journeys in search of jangle produce or for other reasons. 



All the up-country people who came down to Jeram 

 Kawan seemed to be typical Senoi (Central Sakai), the purest 

 tribe of Sakai in the Peninsula. They had the somewhat long 

 and lean type of face with an often almost delicate nose, the 

 straight eyes without any trace of the Mongolian fold, and the 

 long wavy hair so characteristic of the true Sakai. On the 

 other hand, of the three males in the house at Jeram Kawan, 

 two presented features which led me at once to suspect the 

 presence of Negrito blood, though their skin colour was 

 scarcely darker than that of many of the up-country Sakai. 

 (pi. XXIV) These two individuals were brothers and the faces 

 of both were of the round and rather childish type so 

 commonly seen among the Pangan and Semang, which 

 contrasts very strongly with the long, serious-looking face of 

 the pure Sakai type. On making further enquiries they told 

 me that their father had been a Mai Pahang (Pahang man), 

 and that he had come from somewhere in the Lipis district. 

 As it is well known that there are a few wandering' families of 

 Pangan in this neighbourhood it is extremely likely that their 

 father was a negrito. 



Besides the settlement at Jeram Kawan there is another 

 aboriginal village, Ungkun, (pi. XXIV) on the river between 

 that place and Sungkai. Here again the community is 

 decidedly mixed, the villagers being the descendants of slaves, 

 aborigines of Selangor, who were sold into Perak by Rawa and 

 Mendiling raiders, and on gaining their liberty formed alliances 

 with Senoi women and settled down comparatively close to 

 the Malay villages. 



I brought two boys from this kampong back with me to 

 Taiping, and on talking about the different Sakai settlements 

 with them, they informed me that they could scarcely under- 

 stand the people of the up-country villages at all, while though 

 they understood, pretty well, the dialect talked by the people 

 of the Jeram Kawan settlement, they (the J. K. Sakai) 

 occasionally used words which they did not know ; so appa- 

 rently the dialect of the Sungkai settlement is a sort of bastard 

 Senoi-Sakai. The Jeram Kawan people, from whom, as 

 remarked above, I obtained much of my information, are 

 evidently more akin in language and customs to the true Senoi 

 than the people of the down-stream settlement. 



GENERAL REMARKS ON THE 

 SUNGKAI ABORIGINES.~(Pls. XXV— XXVII). 



All the aborigines I met with called themselves Senoi and 

 though they recognised the term Mai Darat * they said that it 



* If this is so it is rather extraordinary as Mai is a Sakai word meaning 

 people. Possibly the truth is that some other section of the Central Sakai use 

 the term as their tribal name. 



