XI. INDO-CHINA AND MALAYA. 
Indo-China and its Primitive People. By Caprarn HENRY 
BAUDESSON. London: Hutchison and Co. n.d. 
excellently translated is that instead of seeking more parallels 
in Malayan regions the author often goes far afield to France 
and Rome and Africa. 
The Moi, who inhabit the uplands of Indo-China, are 
called Karens by the Burmans, Kha by the Laotians, Stieng 
or Puong by the Cambodians, and Moi or Man by the Annam- 
ites. They have the physical characteristics of Indonesians 
which are found purest in type in the Battaks, Dyaks and 
Alfurs. 
Their folk-tales bear out the physiological resemblance. 
They tell of the existence of beings with monkey’s tails and 
a razor-edged forearm ; the Malay tulang mawas. hey have 
the same legend as the Malays relating that the tides are due 
to the machinations of a gigantic crab. ‘The Moi tale of the 
of the Mouse-deer and the Tortoise. The Moi tale of the 
Rabbit, the Tiger and the Elephant (p. 217) is a replica of 
the Malay Mousedeer tale (Skeat’s ‘‘ Fables and Folk-tales 
from an Eastern Forest,’’ pp 45-47): the tale is of Hindu 
origin and is found in the Sukasaptati. 
Captain Baudesson compares the Moi love-songs with 
the Malay pantun. 
The Mois file the teeth of youths at puberty to points, 
and they pierce the ears of girls. Both sexes smear their 
Peninsular Malay. Ladies dye their finger-nails with vermil- 
ion. Youths sleep in a special hut after puberty Betrothals 
are prefaced by formal offerings of betel. The ‘avoidance’ by a 
husband of his mother-in-law and by a wife of her father-in- 
law is imperative as also for Malays. The Moi and Cham 
woman, like her Malay sister, is ‘ roasted’ after child-birth. A 
Moi child is not given a name for two years ; but the naming 
is a matter of moment, decided by a medicine-man, who uses 
