48 RECORDS OF MALAY MAGIC. 
The claim here set forth by the first settlers in the original 
Sakai country embraces the whole country side, to the effectual 
exclusion of the Sakais, who themselves tacitly acquiesce in it, 
by gradually retiring to the more remote jungle-covered hills 
without any protest. 
The Waris tribe were the first-comers, followers of a chief, 
who followed their chief's example and intermarried with the 
Sakai race ; therefore as the land belonged originally to their 
Sakai wives, the custom is still in force in the Negri Sembilan, 
that all ancestral land shall be held by the women. 
The census taken in 1891 shewed that the Malay popula- 
tion in Rembau was much more dense than in any other of the 
protected Native States, and that it was the only State in which 
the native women outnumbered the native men; in Rembau not 
one per cent of the native customary holdings are registered as 
the property of men. I believe the same thing obtains in Nann- 
ing of Malacca, where the customs are very similar. 
The Joho! chief, Dato Johol Johan Pahlawan Lela Perkasa 
Setia Wan, is to this day, although a man, to some degree 
looked upon as a woman, and in consequence except to pay 
homage to his suzerain he is not supposed to leave his house 
for any purpose of adminstering justice or attending ceremonies. 
Of the Undang yang ampat who first administered the Negri 
Sembilan..one of them, the youngest, was a woman, who settled 
in Johol. As a further mark of his feminine attributes he 
always wears his hair long. 
Although the Sakais have given up the land to the 
Malays, they still, as shown under No. 2, retain the right—or the 
semblance of it—of appointing the Undang or Penghulu; them- 
selves being in turn confirmed by the Penghulu when appointed 
as Batins by their people. 
