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arrival was acting for Toh Rajah the real headman, his 

 brother-in-law, who had gone over the main range into 

 Kelantan.* 



It is allowable to have two wives, but I gathered, not very 

 usual. Children appear to be named from the place (the 

 Malay word used was tanah) at which they are born. This 

 would, I suppose, usually be the clearing on which the 

 community was living in at the time of the event. 



The musical entertainment, which I have mentioned 

 above, was given by a small party of young men and women 

 on the night I spent at the Hill Sakai's house. 



As is usual at such gatherings the performance went on 

 till day-break, but I only stopped to hear it for a couple of 

 hours. The songs, which were not unmusical, were accom- 

 panied by the women with bamboo stampers, one of which 

 they grasped in either hand. The words of the song were 

 given out line by line by one of the men and followed by the 

 others. Toh Stia made an attempt to tell me what the per- 

 formers were saying and I gathered that the song was almost 

 without meaning, the Sakai merely mentioning the names of 

 mountains and rivers, saying that they felt very hungry, and 

 proclaiming that "there was a boy who rode a horse" and 

 other equally interesting items of intelligence. 



* Tph Rajah returned from his wanderings while I was at the settlement. 



