3^ PAPERS ON MALAY SUBJECTS, 
The Krau Sakai and Bi-a Sakai alike have chiefs 
whom they style Batm like the Besisi and Jakun. 
In other respects they differ from one another. The 
Krau men remember the North Sakai bow and describe 
it accurately even to the barbed iron point of the arrow, 
thongh they do not use it ; the Bra Sakai know nothing 
of the weapon. The Krau Sakai do not use bamboo 
combs; but they have hcrtam ear-ornaments (like the 
Central Sakai) and paint their faces. The Bra Sakai use 
bamboo combs, but no ear-ornaments and no paint on 
tfeeir faces. It is the same with the dialects of these 
mixed communities : the vocabularies differ from district 
to district, but nothing- is distinctive; each word is 
traceable to some one or other of the main Sakai 
languages. Under the circumstances the aborigines of 
Western Pahang cannot well be classified; they are 
essentially mongrel or mixed. 
A mixed or doubtful tribe of quite another type is 
that known to the !Malays by local names such as 
" Blandas " " Biduanda " and Mantra." The difficulty 
of classification in this case is due to the large Malay 
importations that have swamped the aboriginal elements 
in the language and left us with very little on which 
to base a standard of comparison. Yet there is some- 
thing very distinctive about these Biduanda* They are 
not a coast people, but occupy the liigher lands between 
the Besisi on one side and the Jakun on the other. 
They have some very remarkable beliefs, notably 
legends of the sun, such as suggest a connection with 
the Central and Northern Sakai. They are also very 
superstitious and believe in many spirits of evil The 
Malay element iu their speech is not a modern importa- 
tion ; it is often archaic and is common to the wilder as 
