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below the house, the majority of the men who went to help in 

 cutting up the animal took the opportunity of having a bath, 

 ot which they were much in need. 



Drinking water was drawn from a small spring, which 

 was at a considerable distance from the house, but not quite 

 so far away as the river. Bamboo-joints were used as 

 water-vessels. 



At night conversation, often in a loud tone of voice, was 

 kept up till quite a late hour. During the heat of the day the 

 majority of the people lay off work and went to sleep. 



The Prah fruit is an article of diet of which the Sakai are 

 very fond. This fruit is sometimes roasted whole in the lire, 

 and when so treated is not unpleasant to eat, having a flavour 

 something like a Brazil nut. It is also beaten to a flour in a 

 large wooden mortar of exactly the same type as the Malay 

 lesong. The fruits when freshly gathered are said to be 

 poisonous to a certain extent, and are soaked in water before 

 use. Noting that several side-paths branched off from the 

 main Sakai track, which follows the Kinta River, I enquired 

 where these went. My coolies replied that they led to parts 

 of the jungle where there were numbers of Prah trees, and that 

 they built small huts near the trees in which they stored the 

 ripe fruit. These store-houses, except at the fruit season, were 

 only visited occasionally to obtain fresh supplies or to see if 

 rats were eating their contents. If it was found that there 

 were many rats about, snares were set for a night or so in 

 order to trap them for food. 



Some cobs of Indian corn, most of them blackened by 

 smoke, were hung up under the thatch in the communal house 

 at Bukit Daroh. These were reserved for seed purposes, as 

 were also some dried tobacco-plant fruits. The Sakai explain- 

 ed to me that they had no tobacco growing at the time of my 

 visit owing to their clearing being old, for tobacco only grows 

 well on fresh soil. 



With regard to their appearance the people of the Ulu 

 Kinta in their features showed little, if any, traces of Negrito 

 admixture. Curly, but not woolly, hair was to be observed in 

 some individuals. The septum of the nose was bored in both 

 sexes, but by no means every native had been operated upon. 



Tattooing is practised, but not to any great extent ; the 

 only type of marking of this kind which I saw (on both men 

 anil women), being a single line running perpendicularly from 

 the top of the forehead to either the root or the point of the 

 nose. 



Face-painting in simple designs was much in favour 

 among the women, while some of the patterns were made by 

 applying a kind of plant juice with stamps made of tortoise- 

 shell. 



I saw very few blow-pipes in the hands of the Kinta 

 Sakai, not more than four altogether, and of these only two 



