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villages. ‘Whose elephants are these?’ ‘ The elephants of 
Awang Durahman!’ Young male elephant with tusks just 
enclosing its trunk. 
I tell mother to load it with dollars and bring it to the 
Raja’s house, asking the hand of his daughter. Raja gives 
it. Raja builds a house for the marriage. When I have 
married, I sit in the balet.* Play chess. Princess comes, 
‘Come my lord and eat rice.’ I don’t want to. I give 
checkmate.* She comes again. She wears anklets, chérong 
chéring.* ‘Come my lord and eat rice.’ " don’ t want a 
I give checkmate. She catches my hand. Digs me in 
ribs. Dig her in the ribs.* Chokok, chokok, chokok, hake, 
chokok, chokok !”’ 
And as Awang Durahman dug himself in the ribs, first on 
one side, and then on the other, wriggling the while, the 
posts of the hut gave way, and he came to the ground cut- 
ting his legs on atree-stump. ‘* What’s the matter with you, 
A i Durahman?’”’ said his mother ‘ The Raja’s daugh- 
dug me in the ribs,” answered Awang Durahman. 
. Where’ s the Raja’s daughter ?’’ asked his mother. ‘‘ Oh, 
I was only thinking about her!’’ replied Awang Durahman. 
(C) Some NoTES ON ABORIGINES OF NEGRI SEMBILAN. 
While engaged in making excavations at the stone 
monuments at Pengkalan Kempas in Negri Sembilan, I met 
some of the aboriginal inhabitants of the neighbourhood— 
seemingly Besisi—and paid their settlement a couple of visits. 
The following disconnected notes and short vocabulary are 
the results of my acquaintance with them. These people 
are, on the surface, now very much civilised, wearing Malay- 
fashion clothing, and no longer ordinarily making use of 
the blowpipe, of which I did not see a specimen among 
them. 
Their village of four or five huts was situated on the 
I could not discover that they have any tribal name, 
and, in asking a question as to what nationality a man be- 
longs, whether wee or Sakai, they simply say, ‘Is he a 
Malay or one o 
The tribal eS appear to be the Batin, the Jenang, 
the eine and the Penghulu Balai. 
was told that other portions of the tribe are at 
Matang Pasir (Linggi), Labu, and at Telok Kemang, in the 
| Gading apit bélalet. 2 Audience hall. 
: Sa ahya sah sahaja. + ) The sound of the anklets. 
5 Sahya mat sahaja. ¢ Chuchok pinggang. 
