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sort. Food is placed at the grave, and a fire is lit there for 

 seven consecutive mornings. The belongings of the deceased 

 arc placed either in or on the grave, and are purposely dam- 

 aged (probably in order to set free the souls of the articles for 

 the dead man's use) before so disposing of them; a blow-pipe 

 for instance being broken in the middle, and a dart-quiver 

 split down one side. I asked L'dah for an explanation of this 

 custom, and he replied, that if they put an adze in good 

 condition on the grave, it would look bent or crooked to the 

 ghost of the dead man, but if they put one that was bent or 

 broken there, it appeared straight to the spirit. 



A death necessitates the desertion of the settlement, but 

 the Sakai are not afraid to return to the clearing in the day- 

 time to get the produce of any crops which may be growing 

 there. 



Vocabularies. 

 I give below a vocabulary obtained from a Sakai of the 

 Ulu Kinta; and with it, for purposes of comparison, another 

 taken by myself in 1915 from a " Hill Sakai" of the Temengoh 

 District. With regard to the Kinta vocabulary, it is rather 

 curious that, while I could obtain no word for " animal," there 

 is one, tata, which is used of large animals only. Furthermore, 

 two of the animals to which this word is applied have names 

 which denote their peculiarities. Thus the Sambhur is called 

 Tata-jeruk, jeruk meaning "long" or "far," from the fact that 

 it has long legs, while the Bear, which the Sakai tell me is 

 very fond of tepus fruits, is named Ta'Pus or Ta'apus, a con- 

 traction for Tafa'tepus. There is, I find, on comparing the two 

 vocabularies, some confusion in the terms employed for denot- 

 ing various relationships. For instance, the words given to 

 me by the Ulu Kinta Sakai for "husband" and "wife" were 

 toulf and leh, while in the Ulu Temengoh vocabulary the 

 order is reversed. I have entirely omitted several relation- 

 ship terms, in which there seem to be inconsistencies. Sen-oi 

 is the word used by the Kinta aborigines to denote men in 

 general (homines) and they gave me the following examples 

 of its use : — 



Sen-oi Gop, A Malay. 

 Sen-oi Begyek, An European. 

 Sen-oi Beg, A Sakai. 



English. Malty. Sakai U. Kinta. ^rlmengo),) 



Head ... Kepala ... Kuie ... Koie 

 Ear ... Telinga ... Gentok ... Gentog 

 Eye ... Mata ... Mat ... Mat 

 Nose ... Hidong ... Muhr ... Muh 

 Nostril ... Lubang hid- Lubang muhr Umok muh 

 ong. 



• In the comparative vocabulary " Pagan Races" ton is given as a word for 

 "Male" obtained from a Tanjong Rambutan Sakai. 



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