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that there were Pangan in the district, told me at Kuala 
Krau by a Malay named Woh, who produced a very dark- 
skinned youth as a sample of what he could show me. This 
man had trading relations with the Kemaman aborigines. 
The third group that I visited were living in the jungle on 
the other side of the river. They were very primitive people, 
natives of the Tekam Valley, who spoke a Sakai dialect, but 
were mainly of Jakun type. 
I was informed that there was another aboriginal camp 
very much further up the Tekam River and the people of 
this were claimed by the Tekam Sakai-Jakun as being their 
friends and relations. It was to this up-stream settlement 
that Siti, the dark-skinned youth, whom I had met at Kuala 
Krau, belonged. Possibly there may an admixture of 
Negrito blood among these people, but nothing of the kind is 
observable among their down-stream friends. 
I found that my Malay guide applied the term ‘‘ Pang- 
an’”’ to any of the wilder tribes. The word which to his 
mind denoted a Negrito was ‘‘ Batek,’’ the name used by, or 
applied to, the true Negritos of the Cheka River.! 
The Bera Tribe. 
These notes on the customs and beliefs of the Bera people 
were obtained from one of the young half-bloods mentioned 
above. I made it clear to him that I did not want to 
hear anything about Dyak usages; and he replied that he 
could not tell me about them, if I did, as his father followed 
the Bera people in all such matters. His evidence, as far as 
I am able to check it against material obtained in other dis- 
tricts, seems quite reliable. 
According to the legends of the Bera Sakai-Jakun the 
souls of the dead go to the underworld, which is governed © 
by two beings called Gayak, a male and a female. The 
underworld is like that above, but the trees there bear fruit 
in abundance all the year round. 
A settlement appears, as a general rule, to be deserted 
when a death occurs. 
The ghosts of the newly dead are said to return to their 
old homes and may be heard complaining if there is no rice 
and water for them. If they are not exorcised, they will cause 
sickness among their surviving relatives 
The Bera people think, as do the Senoi, that storms in- 
volving the destruction of villages and their inhabitants can 
be brought about by breaking certain tabus. These disas- 
trous and man-caused storms, known as ferlain (terlaik 
among the Senoi), are thought to be brought on by imitating 
(when heard) the notes of three species of birds, which I 
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