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waa procured when a child, and has no recollection of 
bis own language. I am informed, however, by the 
Malaya, that the dialect of that tribe is difierent from 
those of Kedah. He is not of such a jet-black glosfsy 
appearance as the Semanfj from Kedah whom I saw, 
nor the Andamans who were at this settlement some 
time ago, A few months since, a party of fifteen of the 
Semangs, who reside in the mountains of Juroo, came 
down to one of the villages* in the Honourable Company's 
territory, and having experienced kind treatment, and 
received presents from some of the inhabitants, they con- 
tinued in that neighbourhood ever since, and frequently 
visit the villages."* 
The Semangs would appear to be less accessible now 
than when Mr, Anderson wTote, about fifteen years ago, 
as Mr. J, Logan, who visited one of the Kedah rivers 
in 1851, found great difficulty in procuring an interview 
with members of the tribe that was known to be in the 
neighbourhood.f 
• Anderson, "Journal of tke Indian Arcbipelfigo," vol. iv, 
p. 
f Since the above was in type, I have received the January 
number of the " Journal of the Indian Archipelago,'* which contains 
the following account of the personal characteristics of a tribe of 
Setnaogs mhahiting the upper waters of the Krian Bivo-, of the 
Malay Peninsula, opposite the Island of Pinang. It is from the pen 
of Mr, J, R, Logman, juid has evidently bectt tie result of personal 
observation. 
"As the Simang characteristics do not appear to be well under- 
stood, the following notes, which have reference to a party of Simang 
Bukit on the Ijau, a feeder of the Krian, will not be out of place 
here. Average height of odults, four feet eight inches j highest, four 
