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this wretched manner who have never possessed a house nor 

 any sort of abode on the land. They are constantly roving 

 about from place to place in pursuit of fish. What they have 

 succeeded in taking" more than is required for their immediate 

 use, they dispose of to the fixed inhabitants, taking rice, sago, 

 betel and cloth in return. This description of Malays goes by 

 the appellation of Orang Laut or men who live on the sea. 



A number of the people called Orang Laut were brought 

 to us for inspection. They were superior in condition, in ap- 

 pearance more civilized than many whom we had seen in the 

 bays and creeks remote from the haunts of men. A portrait was 

 taken of one of them illustrative of the physiognomy and 

 general appearance of the Malay race, six of these men were 

 more minutely examined. Their average height was five 

 feet three inches, average weight nine stone eight pounds, 

 average circumference of the chest two feet ten inches, circum- 

 ference of the clenched fist about eleven inches, average of 

 facial angle $6%, average temperature under the tongue 100*02." 



H. N. Ridley. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



