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Now I do not think that it would be wise to give too 
much credence to these stories, since it is well known what 
wonderful tales are told by both Malays and aborigines— 
especially by the former—about far-off tribes, which generally 
prove without foundation when the tribes in question are 
visited; yet there are one or two points in them which are 
worth consideration. 
I am gradually coming to the conclusion that some, at 
any rate, of the stone implements found in the Peninsula are 
not of any great age, and it seems that there is just a possi- 
bility that very remote tribes may still use them, or at any rate 
use chips of stone, for various purposes. The fact that legends 
of tribes still employing such implements have been previously 
recorded by de Morgan and Hale tends to show that even if it 
is not true that there are any tribes who are still practically iu 
the stone age at the present day; yet there were at a date not 
so remote but that stories with regard to their existence are 
still current. I shall have occasion, however, to refer to the 
matter again, when dealing with the results of the exploration 
of caves at Gunong Sennyum and in the neighbourhood of 
Pulau Tawar. 
The Rompin Jakun. 
While staying on the Rompin River I paid visits to two Ja- 
kun settlements, one on the river-bank at a place called Barop, 
above Pintas Limou, the other a little inland from the Malay 
village of Gading. I collected a large number of ethnographi- 
cal specimens from the Jakun, but with the exception of 
blow-pipes, which I deal with in another section of this paper, 
most of them were articles of Malay type and therefore not 
particularly worthy of note. 
The Jakun village near Gading was situated in a large 
clearing planted with Caladium, while I also noticed some 
pineapples and gourds growing there. Rice, I was told, was 
not cultivated. The Jakun themselves were not a preposses- 
sing set of people, many of them suffering from kurap and 
elephantiasis. Their houses did not present any great peculi- 
arities, being small huts, generally one-roomed, and well raised 
from the ground. 
The Jakun settlement at Barop had been made by rattan- 
gatherers, working for a Chinaman, whose boat was moore 
close by. It consisted of two huts; one—helonging to a 
Merchong Jakun—built on extremely tall poles; the other 
a wretched little hovel with the floor about a foot from the 
ground. 
The Merchong man was the only male in the settelement 
at the time of my visit, the others being out in the jungle. 
Parties of Jakun, however, frequently passed up and 
down the river in boats; some going down-stream to sell 
