1916.] I. H. N. Evans: Sakai 0/ the L'lu Kampar. 2y 



I chanced to hear imports ot communal houses. Si Busu knew 

 almost as little as the other Sakai from whom I made enqui- 

 ries, but I arranged with him that he should go up country 

 and try to bring down some wild people to see me. He lelt 

 his house 011 May 51 h, and calling in at a relation's dealing, a 

 little further up the Kampai River, took this man with him, 

 since he iSi Busu's relation) occasionall} had dealings with 

 the hill Sakai. On the afternoon oi May 8th Si Busu and his 

 relation returned, bringing with them twelve wild Sakai, three 

 men. two boys, and seven women. Ad ot them seemed very 

 much frightened, the women keeping their e\es fixed on the 

 ground, and the men beinu obviously extremely nervous. 

 None of these people -poke Mala}', though 1 believe that one 

 of the men understood a lew words of that language. On the 

 day of their arrival I to a; a few photographs and some 

 measurements of the men, and in the evening 1 got Si Busu to 

 bring two of them to my tent. One kept his face averted 

 the whole tunc and the oth 1 spoke in whispers when answer- 

 ing questions. I took a vocabular] (printed with this paper), 

 of rather more than thirty words, bill I did not ait. nipt to 

 carry the matter furthei owing to the Sakai's uneasiness. 

 fudging from the words obtained, however, their dialect 

 belongs to the central Sakai gro ps, as does that ot the more 

 civilized aborigines >~t tin Kampai River. I did my best to 

 rind out from Si Busu where these people lived, what moun- 

 tains their clearings were on. and what was tin nearest riser, 

 but without much success, bul probably they wore from the 

 Perak side of the main range. The next morning I was told 

 that the women-folk being, I supposed, frightened, had tie- 

 parted at daylight. This was particularly annoying as some 

 of them had tat 11 marks on the face, which I wanted to 

 sketch. The men left at about 10 a.m. on the same day. I 

 afterwards found out that Si Busu had got them down on false 

 pretences, asking them. I believe, :o help him in making his 

 clearing. This, no doubt, partly accounted for their nervous- 

 ness, since, when thev found that I had called them, and that 

 they hail been told a he. they pr >babl) 'bought that they were 

 to be kidnapped. I reproached Si Busu f r having told the 

 Sakai an untruth, but he said that if they had known that a 

 European wanted to see them the} would have refused to 

 come and would most likely have desert< d their clearing. The 

 only other information that I was aide to gain about these 

 people, partly from Si Busu, partly from themselves with Si 

 Busu's assistance, was that theii houses were small, but had 

 several fire-places, and that one family occupied each house. 

 Each household appear-; to possess two clearings, one planted 

 with quick-growing crops such as Sengkuai (millet), Indian 

 corn and gourds, the other with slow -growing vegetables such 

 as tapioca, keledek (convovulus batanas?) and caladium. 

 When the quick-growing crops ire exhausted thev subsist on 

 the produce of their second planting. I gathered that the 

 Hill-Sakai only moved within a very small radius since they 



