^15.] I. H. N. Evans: Various Aboriginal Tribes. 105 



Blowpipe Mouthpiece (pangkal 



sumpitan) 

 Dart Quiver (tabong bekas 



damak) 

 Quiver cords (tali tabong) 

 Butt of dart (pangkal damak) , . . 

 Dart-holder (sarong damak) 



Tebong temiang. 



Telak damak. 

 Tali telak. 

 Pahabong damak. 

 Plet damak. 



THE JAKUNS OF DURIAN TAWAR, NEAR 

 PERTANG. (PI. xxix). 



These people came down to Mr. Hubback's estate on 

 being called by his Malay tracker Yassin. They were led by 

 an old man who turned out to be a most unmitigated rascal, 

 and the whole party, probably at his instigation, were loud in 

 cadging for money. The old man, who was the Batin, 

 appeared to have travelled a great deal and to have lived with 

 the Besisi in Selaugor. A short vocabulary was obtained from 

 him, which appeared to resemble greatly a Besisi dialect; but 

 this was left uncompleted, since it was intended to visit his 

 settlement a couple of days later. However, on it being 

 mentioned to the Titi Ramei people that the Durian Tawar 

 aborigines spoke a Sakai (non-Malay) dialect they seemed 

 surprised and said; "Well, we know all about the Durian 

 Tawar people, as we frequently take wives from there, but we 

 have never heard them speak anything but Malay, as we do." 

 On talking the matter over further it became evident that the 

 Durian Tawar Batin had deliberately given us Besisi words, 

 a knowledge of which language he had picked up on his 

 travels, his idea probably being that the white man would be 

 better pleased to hear that his people had a language of their 

 own, than that they merely spoke Malay. The intended 

 journey to Durian Tawar was not carried out in consequence 

 of the unreliability of the Batin. 



THE SERTING JAKUN. (PI. XXX.) 



The Serting people did not prove to be much more 

 interesting than the aborigines seen at Pertang or Kelapi, 

 except in so far as they were not a Malay-speaking tribe, but 

 of course they were quite familiar with that language for 

 purposes of conversation with outsiders. The few of them 

 seen, made a very favourable impression on the writer, as did 

 the people of Titi Ramei ; their manners were good, and they 

 did not clamour for presents or money as do so many of the 

 tamer aborigines. Only one small settlement was visited, 

 which was close to an estate at Bahau belonging to Mr. M. 

 Hemmant, who very kindly put the writer up for a few nights, 

 and did everything in his power to make the visit a success. 



TRIBAL NAME. 



The Serting people are called by the Malays either 

 " Orang Bukit," a very general name for aooriginal tribes, or 



