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PAPERS ON MALAY SUBJECTS, 
sometimes from Jakun, and sometimes even from Besisi. 
These alwigines seem to possess nothing that is distinc- 
tive ; all that they have is traceable to one or other of 
their neighbours. Blagden did them the honour o£ 
classifjing them in a special division as ** Eastern Sakai 
he might not have done so on fuller data. 
Perhaps the best known of these mongrel com- 
munities is the Sakai settlement on the River Krau in 
Pahang, For the purposes of this enquiry Mr. A, J. 
Sturrock collected a very full vocabulary of the Krau 
dialect and added the following note on the burial 
customs of the tribe : 
The Ki-aii Sakai leave utensils on tbe grave : a cup, a plate, a 
water- vessel, a chopper {parang) ^ and seven leaves, each loaded with 
rice* The relatives and fi-iendg have a feast at the burial-place, and 
the utensils are left that tlie deceased may satisfy himself l>efore 
taking his fiual depart,ure> They are left also with a more utilitarian 
end ; for should the spirit go imfeasted to the other world he would, 
no doubt, return and trouble his neglectful relatives. Having bad 
due respect paid^him and due provision made to satisfy his last 
hunger, be goes in peace, never to return. Tliere is thus no need 
to leave food for him in futiure, and, in fact, it is never done. The 
spirit never returns to the world j Sakai never see the spirits of their 
relatives or of anyone else. As regiirds the future life of the spirit 
nothing is known. He never reappears, and the Sakai philosophers 
do not trouble about him after lie lias l)een suitably sent on his last 
Journey- 
.Here we have an exact rephca of Central Sakai custom 
and behef. Bnt along with this we get Jakun custom 
also : 
The grave m marked by a slab ot' wood, notched in such a way 
as to show it to be a grave but not so as to show who is buried there. 
There are separate alwdes for the wicked luid the good. The 
attributes of the former are th^ popular fierj- ones. Of lieaven there 
seems to no definite conception except that it is plea-sant enough 
