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Grik Semang gave me to understand that the word which they 

 used for people in general (homines) was Go6 and the following 

 examples showing its use. 



Gob Semark. — One of themselves : i.e. a Negrito. 

 Gob Peletau. — A white man. 



Semark Plek (or Pleh), however, is the name given to the 

 Hill Sakai, so, as I have stated above, Semark in their dialect 

 means any kind of aboriginal. A rather curious point is that 

 the word Gop or Gob seems to be used among some tribes of 

 aborigines to denote the Malays only, for instance the Sakai 

 of Sungkai call the Malays Gob or Mai Gob, the word they use 

 for men (homines) being Mai. 



The Semang of Grik, like the Jehehr, whose custom in 

 this respect I describe below, use the blood-throwing cere- 

 mony when frightened by a thunderstorm, and say to the 

 thunder spirit " Dayah hog di baling.'" This they told me 

 means " Take up the blood," but, if baling has the same 

 meaning as in Malay, I should guess that a more correct 

 translation would be, " Take up the blood that we throw you." 

 Children are forbidden to play about in the water, as it is sup- 

 posed that this would cause a thunderstorm. 



At burials the Semang say to the spirit of the deceased 

 " Dh\ Du\ Yakl," which they told me means "Go! Go! 

 Hear ! " i.e. " Go your way ! Hear our command ! " 



THE ORANG JEHEHR OF TEMENGOH. 

 (PI. XXXI Fig. 2, PI. XXXII Fig. i.) 



This tribe, which speaks a Semang dialect, appears to be 

 of fairly pure Negrito blood. The hair of many individuals, 

 though not all, is typically woolly, and, with one exception, 

 the skin colour in all that I met, was extremely dark. The 

 type of features, however, varied to some extent, as did the 

 character of the hair, and while it was easy to pick out 

 individuals who in both respects were typically negritic, mixed 

 types were observable, some of whom had straight or wavy 

 hair, and other features which were decidedly not Negrito, but 

 Sakai. As on first acquaintance, and also to a less extent 

 later, they were inclined to be rather nervous, I thought it 

 better not to attempt to take any physical measurements, a 

 performance which was likely to be regarded with considerable 

 suspicion. A fair number of ethnographical specimens were 

 purchased for the Perak Museum; and for the smaller articles, 

 silver «ten cent pieces were in great demand. In the matter 

 of money the Jehehr are still very unsophisticated, and when 

 I had to pay more than a dollar for specimens, I had the 

 greatest difficulty in getting them to accept notes, their con- 

 stant request being for silver dollars, as they said that they did 

 not want, or understand, "tree leaves." One man to whom 

 I paid two dollars in ten cent, pieces was quite uncertain how 

 many he ought to receive. Needless to say, the local Malays 



