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mil low class amongst llie Porluguese of 

 Malacca* 



A small iminlier (jI Portuf^uos*? words 

 lliey use wauld also seem I'uillier to direct 

 our aUeniiou to tijat t* pin ion, so that il 

 would not very possibK be far Irom the 

 trutli » to call them tire desceudaiits of Por- 

 tuguese, at least by llieir fathers side, who, 

 ill imitation of Tu Puttair, may have taken 

 lo themselves wives from among the Jekun 

 damsels. 



The second class of Jakuns, that is, those 

 of Johore, are more numerous than those 

 (»f tlie preceding and are a liner race of 

 men ; to wliuoi 1 will apply what Lieut. New- 

 hold says of the Jakuns in general, that 

 their physiognomy, their Hneainents, etc. 

 point to a Tartar extraction. I had during 

 iny stay in China several o))port unities of 

 examining the Tartar soldiers of the ce- 

 Irslia] empire, and when I compare them 

 wilh those Jakuns I ran sraively see any 



