TRANSACTIONS OF SECnON H. 803 



concludes by an account of their relations with the traders. A note is added on 

 the native mode of burial. 



8, The Lengna Indians of the (Iran Chaco. By Seymour Hawtrey. 



The author describes the country and the distribution of tlie Lengua Indians 



their physical tj^e, language, social organisation, mode of life, industries and 

 religion— and notes the effects of contact with Paraguayan and European civilisa^ 

 tion. The paper will be published in full in the ' Journal of the Anthropological 

 Institute,' vol. xxxi. 



9. Eeport on the Skeat Expedition to the Malay Peninsula. 

 See Reports, p. 411. 



10. The Wild Tribes of the Malay Peninsula.^ By W. W. Skeat, M.A. 



_ 1. The Malay Peninsula, its position in S.E. Asia. Distribution of British and 

 Siamese possessions therein. 



2. The wild tribes. Martin's classification : — 



(rt) Dark, frizzly-haired Negrito tribes, called Semang, residing in the northern 

 districts. 



(b) Lighter wavy-haired tribes called Sakai, in southern districts. 



(c) Mixed tribes in contact with Malay settlements (also in southern districts), 



3. Description of Semangs (type a) as follows : — 



Height of men, about 4 ft. 9 in. ; women, about 3^ inches shorter. 



Colour of skin, very dark brown, passing into black. 



Head, between long and round (mesaticephalic) ; forehead, low and rounded, 

 projecting over the root of the nose, which is short and very flat or spreading ; 

 eyes round, open, bright, and straight (not oblique) ; iris, rich deep brown ; lips 

 moderate and mouth rather large ; chin but little developed, and slight prognathism. 



Hair very dark brownish-black (never blue-black, as among Malays and 

 Chinese), curling closely to the scalp. 



4. Description of Sakais (type b) as follows :— 



Height does not materially differ from that of the Semangs. 



Colour of skin, much lighter than that of the Semangs, with reddish tinge 

 about breast and extremities. 



Head, long (dolichocephalic) ; among the purest Sakai markedly so ; eyes rest- 

 less, not bright, semi-closed. Face inclined to be long, but broad at the cheek- 

 bones, with pointed chin ; elliptical ; forehead flat, but brow often beetling, the 

 notch above the nose being very deep ; nose small, often slightly tilted and broad, 

 with deep-set nostrils ; beard consisting of a few long frizzly chin-hairs, remark- 

 ably like that of the Veddas of Ceylon, to whom, at first sight, the Sakai present 

 considerable resemblance. 



Hair, lank and wavy, often worn in a great ' shock.' 



5. Specimens of the types referred to above. 



6. Food of the wild tribes mainly vegetable (wild roots and fruits), eked out 

 by any sort of animal food procurable. 



7. Hunting and trapping. The blowgun and the bow. The former is a lono- 

 slender tube or blowpipe composed, when possible, of a single joint or internode of 

 bamboo, over six feet long, which, for protection, is inserted in a similar (slightly 

 larger) tube or case. Method of using it. Darts, poisoned with the sap of the 

 upas tree (Antiaris), or the upas creeper (Strychnos), and made to break off in the 

 wound. Range and effect of these darts. 



' To be published in full in Jovrn. Anthrop. Inst., vol. xxxii. 



