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we walked, on the next day, to Sungei Siput, via the bridle- 

 path, leaving the elephants with the baggage to follow the 

 track, which we had made use of before. These animals 

 arrived at Sungei Siput at about 4 p.m. on the day after. 



There is little to note with regard to the few Sakai 

 we met on the Korbu River. Traces of Negrito admixture 

 could be detected in some individuals, both in their 

 features and in the character of their hair. In Toh Intan's 

 village there seemed to be very few articles which could be 

 classed as distinctively Sakai, and the only specimen of much 

 interest that I purchased was a heavy carved wooden comb, of 

 a type which seems to be only used by the Kinta and Korbu 

 aborigines. The other objects that I bought were a long mat 

 and two or three carrying baskets. There were no blow-pipes 

 in the settlement. According to Toh Intan, his people speak 

 the same dialect as the Sakai of the Plus and Kinta Rivers. 

 With the former they are in constant contact, but they rarely 

 have anything to do with the latter. ' Two of the houses in the 

 settlement were of a curious type and were turreted, one 

 bearing two the other a single erection of this kind. On the 

 former, one turret was ornamented with a curiously carved 

 decoration made of small pieces of wood, the other, as was the 

 first, was roofed over at the top with a piece of board, and had 

 lost its ornament. On the second house the single turret was 

 crowned by an old kerosine tin, filled with earth, in which 

 plants of some kind were growing. Toh Intan's own house 

 was well built, and consisted of a large central sleeping room, 

 with a cook-house adjoining it on one side, and a lean-to buil- 

 ding, which was not raised from the ground, on the other. 



On leaving Sungei Siput I proceeded to Tanjong Rambutan, 

 where, after some trouble, I procured a gang of Sakai coolies. 

 Starting with these, we followed Messrs. Osborne & Chappel's 

 pipe-line as far as the dam, and then the course of the Kinta 

 River. Our destination was a Sakai settlement close to Bukit 

 Daroh, which lies on the south bank of the Kinta. 



The maps of the districts are. it would seem, exceedingly 

 incorrect, but on the way we passed the mouths of the 

 following rivers, the Proh, the Termin, the Takor, the Penoh, 

 the Liang and the Pedang, as well as several other streams, 

 most of them verv small, whose names I have not thought 

 necessary to record. Our first day's journey (we did not start 

 until nearly midday owing to the late arrival of our coolies and 

 to their insufficient numbers) took us to a little way above the 

 pipe-line dam. On the second we camped by the edge of a 

 deep pool in the Kinta River, which goes by the name of Lubok 

 Singet, somewhere between Kuala Termin and the mouth of the 

 Penoh River: and on the third night, we slept at Kuala Liang. 

 On the fourth day. we arrived at Bukit Daroh, and might 

 have reached there on the third, had the Sakai guide not led 

 me to believe that it was n long way further on. A mountain, 

 which the Sakai told me was Gunong Semawak, was visible 



