MALAY PENINSULA. 
those wlio have been somewhat reclaimed from their 
savage habits, and have had intercourse with the Malays, 
" A similar race of people arc said to have formerly 
inhabited all the islands of the Archipelago, and small 
parties are still to be found on many of them. To the 
eastward they are called Dyak,* and on the east coast of 
the peninsula, Pangan. They are at present most 
numerous in the interior of Ian, a small nver to the 
north of the Mirbow, near the lofty moimtain Jerei, in 
the Kedah territory. There are small parties also in the 
mountains, inland of Jurn and Krian, opposite Pinang, 
Their huts or temporary dweUings (for they have no fixed 
habitations, and rove about like the beasts of the forest), 
consist of two posts stuck into the ground, with a small 
cross-piece, and a few leaves or branches of trees laid over 
to secure them from the weather. Some of them, indeed, 
in the thicker parts of the forest, where the elephants, 
tigers, and other wild animals are most abundant^ make 
their temporary dwellings npon the cliffs, and branches of 
large trees. 
"Their clothing consists chiefly of the inner bark of 
trees, having no manufactui-es of their own. A few who 
have ventured to approach the IVIalayan villages, however, 
obtain a little cloth in exchange for elephants' teeth, 
garrn, wax, woods, gum, dammar, and canes, which they 
procure in the forest, but of the intrinsic value of which 
they possess little knowledge, and ara generally imposed 
on by the crafty Malay. From the Malays also, they 
procure their arms, knives and tobacco, of which last 
* It aeed scarcely be mentioaed that the Dyaks have amce been 
nscertaincd to be a variety of the brown race — ^G. W. E. 
