THE ABORIGINES OF THE 



PENINSULA. 



Ft will be remembered that in ftn 

 recount, of liUlEicci, vFliitih appezirei] 

 in ih^Sf rails Time^ sometiuieago, tijeu- 

 tion was made of Uie Roman Catholic 

 missionary Bttum, who had succeed- 

 ed! in red aiming a larj^e number of 

 iDcIuidunlii IVoiti the wildest tribest of 

 the Peu insula. Fathei Bourie has 

 resided altogetlu:r about 19 yearti 

 aniorjg the Jacoans azid MarKras, and 

 has been tu gam an intijuatekuotr- 

 ledj^e of their manners and hlgCory ^ 

 and, ab these pcuple are In all proba- 

 bility the aburtgini?i$ uf the soil, an 

 a<rcf>nut of ihem cauiiot fail to be wtW 

 received, Such an account h&s been 

 fumi^bcd tt* U5^ in French hy Fiither 

 B^jitiriL', and wii h^ive traiii^latod the 

 Bftine fur the bf^untit of the curious. 



^' The Mantras and Jacoona tiave con- 

 Btructcd thf'n) selves from the scattered 

 abi>Figin;d Irtbea of those primitive 

 raises n'liOj in the Fe^nin!iLi]ii as vveJI ail 

 a^l over Malasfa, were §:riidual I y forced 

 ba*^k into the liiteiioi> ever since the 

 12th centufT, iii proportion the Ala- 



