ABORIGINAL TRIBES: D/V/SJONS OF RACE. 
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In this biief sketch o£ tbe wild tribes of the Malay 
Peninsitla we have passed in review the five great divi- 
sions of the aborigines and have referred briefly to the 
few cominimities that do not fall readily under one or 
other of the five heads. Far more, however, remains to 
be done, tt is even uncertain whether in the recesses of 
our mountain forests there may not still survive some 
tribe like Hervey's Kenaboi that may throw quite a new 
light on the ethnography of the Peninsula. Some time 
ago in that very Kenaboi region a zealous policeman 
found one of onr aborigines and arrested him withoui 
delay for not having taken out a licence for his dog. 
The unforfcimatfe man did not know a word of Malay, 
spoke volubly in a tongue that no one could understand, 
and was discharged for want of an interpreter. He was 
last seen running as fast as his legs could carry him 
in the direction of the nearest jungle. Incidents of this 
kind will always keep the aborigines at a distance. To 
what tribe did that man belong ? From the locality, one 
would have expected a Mantra ; yet be was not a Mantra. 
We can never be sure that all the tribes are known. 
Apart, however, from this question of the present distri- 
bution of the aborigines there remains the cpiestion of 
their past distribution. The legend of the Sun eating his 
children is found as far south as the Mantra of Malacca. 
So is it with other beliefs. Tree-burial extends far 
to the north and to the south of the Sakai region. Only 
a short time ago the attention of a Negri Sembilan 
District Officer was drawn to a caso where the natives 
refused to admit the death oE a person whose tomb was 
well known. He made enquiries, and was inforoied that 
the deceased, who had been a sorcerer, was now a well- 
known tiger of the locality. Here again we have a 
