46 RECORDS OF MALAY MAGIC. 
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Bis Sele Talley le 
She gil poss 
Ayer sa’gantang sa’lobok, 
Sa’dangkang yang ber-buny?’ 
Siamang ber-jawat-jawat, 
Tompat ungka ber-dayu-dayu ; 
Batin yang ampunya-nya. 
or 
From every pool a gallon of water, 
The frogs that croak ; 
The gibbons that travel from hill to hill 
And the places of their noisy councils, 
All these belong to the Sakai chief. 
The Sakai who first enunciated the theory contained in this 
description of his rights must have been far advanced in the 
imaginative power so well displayed in the story of Sri Rama, 
told by Mir Hasan and published by Mr. Maxwell in the Journal 
of the Society: or perhaps it wasa Malay who made it up with 
the intention of putting on record that after all the Sakaies 
could only claim a little water in the recesses of the jungle 
where unclean beasts dwell. 
The Sakais of today seem to wish for very little else, and 
all efforts to civilize them are unsuccessful; they are the least 
harmful of all savage races and are bound to retire before 
civilization, even if only the civilization of Malays, luckily there 
is still plenty of room for them in the forests of the Peninsula. _ 
