AN ACCOUNT OF THE WILD TRIBES 

 thus express lliemselves, to look about. Tor 

 iheykiiow that, if any Malay slioiiid chaticp 

 to overhear them, they would iiol roiiiain 

 loii|i[ uninjured. The Jakunt^ thus iiatf and 

 abhor the Malays, hut they fear them; and 

 what makes their position more irksome is 

 the necessity they are in of liaving con- 

 tinually commerce witli them : the dam- 

 mar and several other products they find 

 in the forest cannot be disposed of except- 

 ing by the liands of the Malays; wliich es^ 

 tahhshes a daily hitercourse between them. 

 But it is really surprising that these com- 

 munications are always in good terms, and, 

 though the Jakuiis are rude and wild, they 

 yet know how to give to the Malays de lean 

 Imnite de cow\ and keep habitually great 

 harmony and peace in their relations. But 

 if the Jakuns hate and fear the Malays, tlie 

 Malays in retmni despise and fear extremely 

 the jakuns, Tlie Malays consider the Jakuns 

 as Cahrs, that is as infidels, and tn timt 



