I. SOME NEGRITO BELIEFS AND CUSTOMS. 
By Ivor H. N. Evans, M.4. 
The material contained in the present paper was ob- 
tained in March 1918 at a Negrito settlement near the Damak 
River in the Ulu Selama Parish of Perak, and from a few 
Negritos living in the neighbourhood of Grik, Upper Perak. 
With the former I stopped for ten days, pitching my tent close 
to their camp. Among them were two men whom I had met 
before, one at Kuala Kenering in Upper Perak, the other at 
Tjok in the Selama District. The latter in particular was 
extremely useful to me as, remembering that I had maintained. 
friendly relations with himself and the other Ijok people, he 
assured the tribesmen that I had no hostile intentions. This 
was somewhat necessary as, though I had sent a local Malay, 
who had considerable influence with the people, to tell them 
that I was coming, and to make them a present of tobacco, 
yet I found on my arrival that all the women, and a few of 
the men, had taken to the jungle. 
Tokeh, my Ijok acquaintance, told me that the Negritos 
of the Selama Valley are called Kintak Bong or Menik Bong 
by the other tribes. He himself, he said, was a Menik Kaien 
(?.e. Krian Valley Negrito). The tribes of the Ulu Krian, of 
Ulu Selama, of Lenggong, of Kuala Kenering, and of those 
parts of Kedah nearest to Perak intermarry to a considerable 
extent, though those of Lenggong and Kuala Kenering speak 
a Northern Sakai, and the others so-called Negrito dialects. 
Thus in the neighbourhood of Ijok, according to Tékeh, there 
are Menik Gul (truly native), Menik Kaien, and Menik Lanoh! 
(Lenggong and Kenering people), but at this place they are, 
I understand, not only intermixed by marriage, but ees are 
separate camps of each of the three divisions. The M 
Kaien are also said to have a camp near the Ayer Shik a 
tributary of the Plus(?), as well as some around the head- 
waters of the Krian River, their native locality. Other tribes, 
to whom Tokeh referred in the course of con versation, were 
the Menik Yup, said to live in the neighbourhood of the 
Kupang River in Kedah, the Trans-Perak River Negrito- 
Sakai of the hills (Menik Chubak), the Menik Jehai—the 
1 The ps Lanoh call themselves Semak (Semark) Bélim or Semak 
um. he Pi 
as I can niger out, aborigines only. Vide Journ. of the F.M.S. Museums, 
vol. VI, p. 20 
