50 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [VoL. IX, 
present level.’’ He found no pottery in the caves—‘“ except 
on the surface, where there was some recent Malayan pottery ”’ 
—nor does he seem to have encountered any flakes. He does 
not give very full details as to the depths at which all the objects 
of interest were discovered, but he found a mealing-stone and 
a muller at eighteen inches from the existing surface of the 
cave-floor, and a second mealing-stone (in an adj>ining cave) 
at a depth of two-and-a-half feet. He does not state very 
definitely the depth at which the human remains were found, 
but says that “‘some short way above them was a well defined 
hearth, and over all had, at a previous time, been a bed of 
about four feet of hard shell and bone stalagmite.”’! Pre- 
sumably, therefore, they were discovered not far from the 
surface of the cave-floor. urther excavations made by 
Mr. Wray in the Gunong Cheek caves and described in the 
J ournal of the Federated Malay States Museums? resulted 
in the finding of a polished stone implement at a depth of two 
feet below the surface. ‘Io hazard a guess, it seems possible 
that the deeper layers of the cave floor at Gunong Cheroh 
might be older than the Lenggong deposits, while those which 
had been destroyed and those near the modern surface of the 
floor, might well be newer, since a polished stone a 
was found at a depth of two feet below the surface. It is, 
however, quite possible that polished stone Geticuients may 
yet be found in the Lenggong deposits, though, as far as I 
can see at present, the probabilities are rather against such a 
discovery. 
Now who were the people who used the caves ane sock 
shelters? Are they now extinct, or are their modern represen 
tives the Negritos, the Sakai or the Jakun, or all three 3 ? 
us examine the situations of the sites excavated with reference 
to the present distribution of the pagan races of the Peninsula. 
Taking first the shelter at Gunong Kurau—I have already 
stated my reasons for considering the deposits in it reeent—it 
is situated almost, if not quite, within the present range of 
the Negrito tribe at Ijok, and the local Malays state that 
there were Negritos living in the neighbourhood at the time 
of the founding of Kampong Perak, which would seem to 
have taken place not more than eighty years ago. The caves 
in the neighbourhood of Lenggong are still frequently used 
by the local tribe of Negritos, but at Gunong Cheroh near 
nearest Negrito ‘ boundary.”* Still it is generally conceded 
that the Negritos once had amore extensive distribution than 
they have to-day. 
Journal Anth. Inst. Sor XXVI, pp. 36-47. 
x Sa Museums, vol. . PP. 13-15. 
