ETHNOLOGICAL EXCURSIONS IN THE MALAY 

 PENINSULA— NOVEMBER 1874 TO OCTOBER 1875. 



(PRELIMINARY COMMUNICATION) 



By N. Von Mikluho-Maclay. 



...Die Sache selbst muss audi Hirer selbst 

 wegen betrieben werclen : sonst kann sie 

 nicht gelingen. . . . 



( Schopenhauer. Die Welt als Wille unci 

 Vorstellung, Yol 1 page 18.) 



Read at a Meeting held on the 3rd June, 1878. 



In the following- pages I propose to give, as briefly as 

 possible, an account of the Anthropological and Ethnogra- 

 phical results of my wanderings through the Malay Penin- 

 sula. At some future time I shall probably publish my 

 Journal, with observations on some matters of inferior impor- 

 tance not concerning the main object of my journey. 



Before entering upon results I think it will be wise to say 

 a few words respecting my routes through the Peninsula, for 

 the purpose of pointing out' to my Colleagues where my 

 observations were made, and of rendering the search for 

 scientific material easier for those who may come after me, 

 with a view to saving them the expenditure of much time 

 and trouble. I do so, hoping that I may soon see the know- 

 ledge gained by my experience extended, and science en- 

 riched by the conquest of new facts in this region. 



I started on my first journey through the Peninsula from 

 the river Muar, which I followed up to the small rivulet 

 Fallon. On the way to the Kvaton (an affluent of the river 

 Rumpaii) I met with numerous Orang Titan, who are called 

 here Orang-Uayet and who are also to be found on the Jekati 

 (an affluent of the Krat on). From this point turning south- 

 ward, I returned to the Segamet (an affluent of the Muar 

 River), which I followed in an eastward direction to the 

 mountains Hulu Segamet and Hidii Tenan, 



