RECORDS OF MALAY MAGIC 49 
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Taki Kayu Batin Jenang 
Putus tebus kapada Undang 
Jengka ber-élak 
Lantak per-tukul 
Amas ber-tahil. 
The trees are blazed by the Batin and the Senang. 
But the price is paid to the Penghulu. 
The land is measured.,. 
The boundary posts are planted, 
The gold is weighed out. 
It is to be understood that the Batin is the purely Sakai 
chief, the Undang or Penghulu the purely Malay chief, the Jenang 
is the Penghulu’s officer, appointed by him as bis Departmental 
chief for Sakai affairs; it is hisduty to kra the Sakais for any 
important matter, {o act as intermediary and conduct all negocia- 
tions between the two races. This saying describes the system of 
the alieniation of the land from the Sakais to the Malays of the 
Waris or Bidwanda tribe; and the subsequent selling of blocks 
by the Waris to the different tribes. The saying by itself does 
not very clearly express all that, but in practice it soon becomes 
evident ; the first two lines describing how the land was acquir- 
ed by the first Malay settlers from the Sakais,—with whom 
they were very closely connected by marriages between Moham- 
madan Malay men and Sakai women—I do not suppose the 
reverse ever occurred, or if it did it was very rare; it has 
now become merely a legend, as the Malays of the Waris tribe 
now claim the right to all waste lands, which claim the Sakais 
tacitly admit. It seems very evident, why, although the land 
was sold by the Sakais to the Malays, the Malay chief received 
