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notable instance of which was to be seen in the labours of the late 

 Miss Kingsley. 



With the additional material collected during the expedition it will 

 now, I think, be possible to lay the foundations of a reasonably exhaustive 

 ethnographical work dealing with the Malays of the Peninsula, their habits 

 and customs, their religion and their industries. For this work I have 

 already commenced to arrange the material. It would give me much 

 encouragement to feel that I had the approval of the Association in this 

 lal)orious task, which I have taken upon myself solely because work of 

 this particular description is unfortunately so unremunerative under 

 present conditions that nobody else could be found to undertake it at all. 



As regards the method adopted for dealing with the material, my 

 object is to have all special points which lend themselves to such treat- 

 ment worked up by specialists in each particular branch of knowledge, 

 a method which, I trust, will give an increased value to the ultimate 

 result. Among those specialists who have most kindly undertaken to 

 work up special sections I may mention Dr. R. J. Lloyd, of Liverpool ; Mr. 

 W. L. H. Duckworth, Professor Wm. Ridgewav, Mr. H. Warington 

 Smyth, Mr. W. Rosenhain, Mr. H. Ling Roth, and others. 



I shall proceed to a description of the material collected, though it is, 

 I fear, impossible to give a really adequate description of the collection 

 within the limits of the present paper. 



Dreas. 



The working dress of the jungle Malays in Kelantan and Patani was 

 of the scantiest description, a mere waist- cloth being at times the only 

 garment used. As we worked further south, however, towards the 

 Trengganu and Pahang frontiers, this free exposure of the person 

 diminished continually, until in Trengganu town we found the sarong 

 frequently worn as low as to the ankles, exactly as in most of the States 

 under British protection. 



The specimens of dress collected consisted chiefly of sarongs, the most 

 valuable specimens of which (presented to the expedition by the Raja 

 Muda of Patani and the Sultan and Raja Muda of Kelantan) %vei-e 

 unfortunately stolen after they had been handed over to the expedition's 

 agent in Penang. In this way some unique specinjens were lost. On the 

 other hand, a fairly complete set of named sarong patterns, showing the 

 arrangement of the threads in producing a great many varieties of the 

 Malay check patterns, were obtained, this point being an especially 

 interesting one, as it exhibits in the Malay Peninsula an exact parallel 

 to the existing Scotch (and former Irish) tartans. Among the miscel- 

 laneous articles of attire collected may bo mentioned a .series of head- 

 dresses, shoes, sandals, Ac, and some curious sets of toilet requisites 

 carried on the person (including silver tweezers, c;ane tooth-brush, silver 

 eat" -pick, and silver tongue-scraper), and a set of exceedingly ingenious 

 and primitive folding palm-leaf umbrellas, which are constructed on an 

 entirely different principle from those of Europe. 



Ornamentation. 



Among the IMalays of the East Coast and Kedah, as among those of 

 the British possessions, the adornment of personal belongings and house 

 furniture is seldom rich, and is the exception rather than the rule. In 

 certain departments, however, with which Moslem tradition has not 



