INHABITING THE MAUYAN PENINSULA. ^7 



HABITATIONS. 



Belofc 1 liad myself visiled the Jakuus, 

 report induced mc to consider lliciii to be 

 as savage as wild beasts, and sleeping like 

 birds on ilje blanches of trees. Even now 

 when I question the Malays on the subject, 

 some of lliem answer the same; but this is 

 far from tlie truth : tliere is no Jakun with- 

 out some dwelling, more or Jess well or- 

 dered. Some of them indeed liave habita- 

 tions which can scarcely be called houses; 

 but tliese are very few; and for the most 

 part they Jjave liouses. The Jakuns of Jo- 

 liore build bouses in the Malay way, some 

 of which are fine buildings. 1 found several 

 which were much more comfortable than 

 any Malay house I have seen in the inte- 

 rior of Jo bore r such are the houses of the 

 Pangliuhi Batin on the river of Johore, and 

 tliat of a Jakun chief on tiie river of Ba- 

 nut; tlicse two houses were divided into 



