MEMORANDUM 



ON 



THE VARIOUS TRIBES INHABITING 

 PENANG AND PROVINCE WELLESLEY 



BY THE LATE 



J. E. LOGAN. 



[On the 30th November, 3S80 ; the late Mr. David Aitkia 

 wrote to the Government stating that the late Mr. James Rich- 

 ardson Logan had written, for the Government, a paper on the 

 Wild Tribes of Penang and Province Wellesley, which Mr. Aitken 

 believed would be found in the records of the Lieutenant-Govern- 

 or's Office, Penang. 



A search was made, and the paper was found. Jt has never 

 before been published, and, coming from the pen of sucb an autho- 

 rity as Mr. J. R. Logan, will be read with great interest. — En.] 



The native races of the Malay Peninsula are the Simang, the 

 Binua, the Malay, and the Siamese. 



Si many. 



The Simang are scattered in small disconnected herds through- 

 out the forests of the broadest part of the Peninsula, comprising 

 the Malay States of Kedah, Perak and Tringganu. They are the 

 sole aborigines of Kedah, including Province Wellesley, in the 

 vicinity ofc' which some families continued to wander until the 

 increasing denseness of the' Malay, Samsam, and Chinese popula- 



