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he can produce the skull of a slaughtered enemy. 

 They feast upon their enemies, and form drinking 

 cups, and ornaments out of the skulls and teeth.* 

 It may here be mentioned that it is extremely 

 difficult to obtain any accurate information re- 

 garding this extraordinary race. The Malays 

 do not appear to possess any traditionary ac- 

 counts of the different tribes ; and, although 

 they readily affirm such and such things of 

 them» they confess, when closely questioned, 

 that their information is mere hearsay, nor can 

 they even point out the quarter whence they 

 derived it. From the people themselves little 

 can be extracted. The Jokoogs or Jacoons, who 

 are, as i have stated, perfectly distinct from the 

 Semangs of Kedah, are still comparatively very 

 numerous in the woody fastnesses of Kumbow 

 and Sungei Hjong, and are occasionally met with 

 in JohoL They approximate to the Orang Sakei 

 or Bukit, but the dialect of each tribe presents 

 coni^iderable varieties when the paucity of their 

 language is taken into consideration. 



That the aborigines never existed in sufficient 

 numbers to entitle thera to be considered the le- 

 gal proprietors of the whole extent of the penin- 

 sula may be inferred from the fact of their not 

 having settled down into any form of municipal 

 government, being broken into small states, or 

 rather wandering villageJj, acknowledging no com- 

 mon head-t The first settlers on the coast appear 

 either to have met with no opposition on landing, 



• Vide Ley den on the laugoagei and litetatareof the ludw-cUiueic 

 satlotu pp. G9. 6L 



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