156 COMPABATIVE VOCAB FLAKY. 



ItOTES-Continued. 



The spirit of fire (Jin oss) is a bad spirit, and they 

 propitiate him by prayers. There is a good female 

 spirit in the clouds (jin mah tok). 



They have, as a rule, one wife, but if all parties- 

 consent may have two, never three. 



The price of a wife is ordinarily $7 ; if she be very 

 young $10 or even $20. If she has been married 

 before $1 or $2 is the price. There is no divorce, but 

 if a man runs away with another's wife it is permitted 

 to follow and kill both. Their names are taken from 

 trees, grain, &c, such as Durien, Benang (padi), 

 JPetei, &e. Besides the blowpipe they use a bow as- 

 long as the arm, very thick and strong, the arrows of 

 which are male and female, the male arrow as long as- 

 the middle finger and the female as long as the fourth 

 finger. 



With these arrows, they say, they can kill an ele- 

 phant by shooting him in the foot. 



The wild people, or supposed aborigines, who live on 

 the right bank of the Perak river, are called Semang, 

 whilst those inhabiting the land on the left are called 

 Sakei.—~F. A. 8. 



19. SEMANG- OF ULIT SELAMA, collected by E. D. Hewett,. 



Esq. 



