eo Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [Vou. IX, 
Malay mudin are often called in to perform the operation. 
Tattooing is known to them, and I saw one man who was 
decorated with a large crescentic mark in the middle of the 
forehead—the crescent being disposed with both horns 
upwards —and a single line on each cheek-bone. This was 
true tattooing. At Kuala Krau, too, I observed the only 
instance of decoraticn by scarification that I have ever yet 
seen among any of our aboriginal tribes. The youth in ques- 
tion had two parallel scars follwing the line of each cheek-hone. 
At first sight I thought that the marks, which were faint, 
had been made by the temporary application of the juice of 
some plant—not an uncommon practice among some tribes— 
but on making an examination and questioning the boy and 
his companions—older men than himself—I was told that they 
were permanent and were made in the following way. The 
juice of the Horse Mango (machang) tree is applied to the 
skin wherever it is wished to leave marks This has a burn- 
ing effect, and when the wound made by it has begun to heal 
under the toughened gummy juice, the scab with the gum 
adhering to it is stripped off, and a permanent scar results. 
Both tattooing proper and scarification are termed naian. 
I had little or no opportunity to go deeply into the ques- 
tion of the Krau tribe’s customs or beliefs, and the only point 
worth recording that I elicited was that the price paid to a 
girl’s father for her hand in marriage was twenty old worn- 
out spears, ‘“dua-puloh batang lémbing yang burok,’ as my 
fifoemiacit told me in Malay 
story of an spiach echt tribe, which is said to 
dwell round the headwaters of the Krau, especially in the 
neighbourhood of the Lompat River, is of considerable interest. 
I believe that the Batek (Negritos) of the Ulu Cheka some- 
times wander into this district—they told me that they did 
themselves—but I obtained stories of a much wilder people 
from Woh, my Malay friend, and also from two of the Krau 
Valley aborigines. The wild people the latter call Cho-ben or 
Jo-ben, and they are said to use fragments of stone or sharp- 
ened stones as implements. Woh, indeed, told me that he 
came upon one of their camps, which had heen deserted at 
his approach, and found there pieces of stone with which they 
had been cutting thatch (atap). One of the Krau aborigines 
said that the Cho-ben used stones fixed in the ends of sticks! 
to dig with, and that their knives were made of bamboo. 
There is also a story that the Krau Sakai once captured a 
woman of this wild tribe, who was surprised while climbing a 
tree to obtain its fruit.? 
1 I showed two stone rigs ar to the Krau men asking them — 
they were, but they did no’ sy 00 18 them as being made by the Cho- 
bast om that they were thunderbol 
was told that she made her vais on the morning after her capture. 
