INHABITINO THE MALAYAN PENINSULA. A3 



Bukit More, Ayer Tross, Bukit Gadong, 

 Tanka, aod it is reported there are a jjood 

 number at Segaiiiet. Those 1 styled Jakuns 

 ol'Johore, because they inhabit that part 

 ol tiie Peuinsuhi which is under the sway 

 of the sultan of Joliore, cannot amount to 

 more lhan one thousand, scattered over 

 that large extent of country ; from two lo 

 three hundred fell under my inspection al 

 the following places; at the extremity of 

 the Johore river, where there are several 

 hundred of them living under a Panghulu 

 Batin, didy aj>pointed by the late sultan 

 ol Johore, and by the present Tammun- 

 goiig of Singapore; at a place entirely in 

 the interior of the Peninsula called Kem- 

 bao, and at the extremity of the Banui 

 river; the others 1 have not seen are to be 

 found at Pontiaii, Ayo, Klambo, on the river 

 of Batu Pahat, the Rio Formosa of Ibe Por- 

 tugues<\ and in several other places. Those 

 I called Jakuns ol tin: Miuiangkabaw ;^la- 



