[HIIABITING THE MALAYAN PENINSULA. id 



Uiroiij|li certain iioies wliicii serve as doors, 

 110 very satisfactoi'v appearance to tlie uni- 

 iiitiated. The roofs are often tlialciied witli 

 '(Ihuclio leaves. There is Imt one room, in 

 which llie whole fa mil y is huddled together 

 with dofjs and the bodies ot the animals 

 they catch. The huts are so made as to be 

 moveable at a nioment's waf-ning; they are 

 ordinarily situated on the steep side of some 

 forest clad liiii , or in some sequestered dale , 

 remote h'om any frequented road or foot- 

 path, and with little planhitions of yams, 

 plantains and maize; sonic have also fields 

 oi rice about them. The hones and hair of 

 the animals whose ilesli the inmates of 

 these scattered dwellings feed upon strew 

 the ground near them, while numbers of 

 dogs generally of a lightbrown colour give 

 timely notice of the approach of strangers, a 

 Tlie Jakuns of Malacca whom I charac* 

 teriscd as the most ignorant, niQ also the 

 poorest and most miserable; thoir hest 



