34 WILD TRIBES OF PERAK. 
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Sakai of Sex: Age. | Height. arcs a g 
ft.) sie) site ee in. 
Batang Padang... .>.| shale 16 5 0 ioe 29 
i ee et 5 35 5 0 he 58 31 
Kuala Dipang ~~ a: 5 25 cite) cere — 
4 ee if 22 5 0 5 el — 
re fs ae ‘. 20 7B 1 9 | Psa oh —- 
Batang Padang... oe a5 Ata) 4 eis 30 
. ve a i |. 26 Avrs 5 Os 29 
ve ae fea > 18 ATT cree — 
Kuala Dipang o e ‘ 40 4 10% | 5 1 — 
Batang Padang ... Sf 20 4 10 5 oO 30 
Kuala Dipang me .. | Hemale || (22 4 9] 5 of | — 
” ’” 20 + t 5 I a: 
5 Male 25 a UOe et go — 
Batang Padang... ws # 40 4 9 A) Seale oR 
Kuala Dipang a oss i 28 4 8 ria 
i a ...| Female] 18 4 845) 4 6 — 
ij ie Ng 5 50 AL 7A i 
” ves ae Y) 17 4 5 4° 39 ai 
By these figures it will be seen that the average height of the thirty 
male Sakais is 5 feet 0°93 inches, or (say) 5 feet 1 inch; that the tallest is 
5 feet 44 inches, and the shortest 4 feet 84 inches. The average chest 
measurement of 16 men is 31'04, the range being from 29 to 34 inches. 
The average height of the five women is 4 feet 7°95 inches, or (say) 
4 feet 8 inches, the tallest being 4 feet 9} inches, and the shortest 4 feet 
5 inches. There is therefore a difference of five inches in height 
between the sexes. This is nearly the same proportional difference as in 
England ; that is, prior to the recent extraordinary increase in height of 
English girls of the better classes. 
Wallace, in The Malay Archipelago, page 590, gives the average 
height of the Malays as 5 feet 2 inches to 5 feet 4 inches, while Pro- 
fessor A. H. Keane, in A Geography of the Malay Peninsula, Indo- 
China, the Eastern Archipelago, the Philippines and New Guinea, 
page 8, says the Malay “ is described by competent observers as of low 
stature, averaging little over 5 feet.” The average Malay is therefore, 
according to these authorities, little taller than the Sakai. 
It will be noticed that the span of the arms, in both males and 
females, is rather greater than the height in the majority of cases. The 
mean span for the 30 men is 5 feet 2°08 inches, giving an excess of 
1°15 inches above the mean height, or, in other words, an excess of one- 
fifty-third of the height. The five women show a greater length of arm. 
In their case the mean span is 4 feet 10°10 inches, which is greater by 
2°15 inches than the average height; this gives one-twenty-sixth as the 
excess; 
