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The Sungei Ujong Sakai counts, as he speaks, in Malay. He has, 
however, very little Mee. не to do and probably had less before the 
te o 
establishment of a British protectorate over the country. Even now he 
has very little retentiveness "es figures. Indeed je ке never — to 
make any arrangements with him for more than t ays à —not 
that he is hopelessly forgetful e s ешеш but simply that after 
the first day he quickly loses с 
When I was a Settlement Officer in the Seremban district it was 
one of my duties to count the fruit trees of the Sakai dusuns, which 
from time to time fell within the area of new mining concessions, for 
to th 
three of the Sakais to accompany me, not merely for their own grati- 
fication but also to point out the trees and show me the way through 
the jungle, for in many cases the dusuns were right away from any 
path or beaten track. It was quite clear, however, that after the 
fourth or fifth tree the Sakais trusted implicitly in me to do the 
Miri fair, they themselves not being able to remember from one 
number to the next, though the trees ау have been quite close to one 
noche: They were usually ee up in groups, however, which 
were often as much as a mile apar 
On one of these occasions I was unable to keep an appointment 
ме tha: day means by messenger, owing to a ~~ attack of 
fever. When киэ I was told that t my abse not make 
mae difference, as i в had been counted бон my aid, I was 
not a little surprised. Enorig the people so well, it see to me a 
matter А e poni Ml y. But my surprise soon арй to 
nd interest 1 
of mango trees which, as far as t 
enumerators could judge, would be included in the new concession. 
be Sakais had, in fact, gone round the dusun themselves on my non- 
а ч bed e to a gash 1 
© prevent counting it and its number recorded on the stick by a 
notch. More than Фа Feds could only tell me that besi эы дйн — 
were about nin ngosteen he duri 
many for them and they had left it to me to total up ho тл вну Yet 
when told there were 60 they apparently grasped what that number 
meant. 
PERAK Stare Museum FRED. W. KNOCKER. 
23rd March, 1905. 
NOTE ON THE MALAY SAPI UTAN. 
By R. LYDEKKER, r.z.s. 
М Тен uncertainty seems to exist with regard to the wild cattle of 
tives of two species, the banting (Bos sondaicus) and the gaur (Bos 
gaur) are to be met with in that area, the former being known as the. 
