INHABlTmG THE MALAYAN PENINSULA. 13 



will Speak of hcieaiter). But From vvli;it 

 branch of the great family of maiikiud do 

 the Binuas spring? This is a point t;xlre- 

 mely obscure; history says nothing on the 

 subject, and tradition is almost silent. 



Lieut. Newbold, from the several o[i- 

 portunities he had of seeing the Binuas* 

 observed that their general physical 

 pearance, their lineaments, tlieir nomadic 

 habits and a few siniilanlics in customs, 

 point to a Tartar extraction. 



Another opinion, adverted to by Sir 

 S. Raffles J says that Java was originally 

 peopled by emigiants coming in vessels 

 from the Red sea; from whence it is infered 

 that these ancient Egyptians might have 

 been the ancestors of the people at present 

 called Binnas. 



I wdl not now attempt to oiTer any de- 

 cided opinion on the subject as respects 

 the Battas of Sumatra, or the Semangs of 

 Kedah, Tringanu, Pciak ami S;i!augor, as 



