"these tribes^ isolafced and iguorant of eaeb other, are, throut^hout the 
"whole peninsula from Johor to Ligor (South of Siuni), thus closely 
**coiiDeeted in speed i. Tbia circiumtauce gives me a fresh conviction 
that my opinion expressed in the beginning of this year (1875) and 
" before my second journey, is correct, vi^., that the Orang 0tan of 
" Johor, notwithstanding their great intermixture, undoubtedly show 
" tracCvS of a Meiaitcnian blood/' 
The whole number of these tribes is eertninly not more, and probably 
somewhat less, than 20,(100 at tlie present time j and they are dtminishiDg 
every year, a^ a race distinguishable from the Malay. 
The Malays, though pfobably not the most important origr^inal factor 
in Ihe indigenous population of the Peninsula, are by far the most im- 
portant of the three stocks above-named at the present time. Under the 
influence, first of the Hindus, and afterwards of the Arabs, the Malays have 
developed some sense of national life and culture, and have iuuuded 
more or less powerful political States, in various parts of.the Archipelago. 
The common view of the Malay as a sea-rover is, now at any rate, 
incorrect : the great majority of the 3Ialay race in the I'eninsuhi, as in 
Sumatra, being engaged in agricultural pursuits. 
The Maluy language, here as elsewhere, is the accepted medium of 
intercourse betwoeu the Pen insula- born settlers of all races. 
Nt(wij('i\'^.—ThG whole population of the Peninsula, including 
settlers as well as the indigenous people dealt with above, is probably 
nnder-stated at 1/200,000. On the basis of the last Census (1881), th^e 
Colony aloue numbers 470,000 (42?),384 ^>//*** three years' increaient 
46/)l6), and, includuig the three Protected States, must certainly exceed 
600,000. 
The population of the Peninsula may Jje roughly distributed among 
the various races us follows : — 
r Siamese, ... 100,000 
Mixod Siamese,... ... oO/JOO 
Tributary Malavs, ... 150,000 
Wild Tribes, * . . 10,000 
^Chinese, 90,000 
Siamese 
Division, 
400,000 
British 
Division, 
f Malays, 
Wild Tribes, ... 
J Chinese, 
^ Indians^ 
Miscellaneous (chiefly in the 
Colony), 
350,000 
10,000 
fl00/)00 
40,000 
100,000 
800,000 
Some pains have been taken to arrive at an approximation in these 
figures ; but, in the absence of any Census returns, outside the Colony, 
