1920.] I. H. N. Evans: Tribes of Pahang. 27 
A curious complaint was made to the Penghulu of Piang- 
gu, in my presence, by a Jakun man from the Anak Endau. 
He stated that all the women of his settlement were frequent- 
ly seized by a kind of madness—presumably some form of 
hysteria—and that they ran off singing into the jungle, 
each woman by herself, and stopped there for several days and 
nights, finally returning almost naked, or with their clothes 
all torn to shreds. He said that the first outbreak of this 
kind occurred a few years ago, and that they were still fre- 
quent, one usually taking place every two or three months. 
They were started by one of the women, whereupon all the 
others followed suit. 
Blowpipes from the Tekam, Krau, and 
ompin Districts. 
The two-piece wooden blowpipes found in the hands of the 
aborigines of East and South-East Pahang are particularly 
interesting since, though a fair number of these weapons have 
now been obtained for the Federated Malay States Museums, 
there has not, up to the present, been any very definite infor- 
- mation as to who are their makers. Specimens have been 
obtained from Kuantan, the Tekai Valley, Kuala Pilah, 
Negri Sembilan, and elsewhere, some of them having evidently 
been traded far from their place of origin. I saw a blowpipe 
of this type in the hands of the Bera people and another 
among the ‘‘ Orang Berbahan,” and, on my questioning the 
former as to where they were made, they replied that they 
we1e manufactured by the tribe living on the Luit River' near 
Lubok Paku. 
Wooden blowpipes, too, were fairly common among the 
Rompin Jakun, and I enquired of them also where these 
weapons came from. They replied that they were made by 
the wild tribe—the Orang Semlai *—which lives at some dis- 
tance from the Rompin River and towards its source, occupy- 
ing, I suppose, part at any rate of the country between the 
Rompin and the oe I was, moreover, told by one man 
that the Merchong ’ people manufactured “them as well. 
think, therefore, that it is within this area that most, if not 
all, of the wooden blowpipes are produced. 
I only obtained one specimen on the Endau, and this had 
been brought from elsewhere. Furthermore, the Endau Jakun 
1 A tributary of the Soe J in its North ban 
2 ** Orang Semlai” is a ae ee applied ws tribes who speak 
Malay as their mother. ene ee those who speak Bg tng From 
het | B pom learn of these — from fe Rompin men ieve them 
to be a Sakai-speaking tri sr agen of mixed blood, probably with Proto-Malay 
ai sare sepebe bade predomin i 
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