ABORIGINAL TRIBES: DIVISIONS OF RACE. - 25 
The third suggestion, Onrng S.^4ah could only apply to 
the Singapore aborigines, who hkewise are not Besisi. 
Perhaps Cellates is the eqiiiTalent of Sisi Laut or Besisi 
Lauti a name still borae by the Besisi of the Jugra coast. 
Be that as it may, the Collates of tlie Portuguese corres- 
pond exactly ^nth the Besisi of to-day and occupy the 
same area. Moreover, Albuquerque tells us that the 
old kingdom of Malacca itself was created by the 
fusion of a party of fugitive Malays from Singapore with 
a local settlement of these aborigines on the ^Malacca 
river. This tribe is interesting if only for the infiaenee 
that it must have exercised on the formation of the 
Peninsular Malaya of to-day. 
The Besisi are found on the western slope' of the 
Peninsular watershed from Taujong Malim in the noith 
to the end of the main range at Gimong. Tampin in the 
south. They are also to he met with on the other side 
of the ^talacca Straits, on Pulan Eupat and near 
Bengkalis; indeed, in all probability the Besisi are 
identical with the Sumatran "<8akai" who inhabit the 
great island as far as the borders of the Batak country. 
Their cosmopolitanism (for no maritime tribe can main- 
tain a perfect isolation) makes them an uninteresting 
people of mixed blood . and indeterminate customs. 
Nevertheless, they have certain characteristics that 
differentiate them markedly from the other aboriginal 
races — ^notablv from the Central Sakai, to whom they 
present an antithesis that is almost perfect. The formerj 
the Central Sakai, have a very simple patriarchal 
government; the latter, the Besisi, have an elaborate 
official hierarchy : a Batin^ a Jeuang, a Jeknt and a 
' Alfio tit n ft>vr plnrt>i« 011 Tin' KjiKtorti plopo— -r.^.^ rit Laiicflcfijt nii'i tit 
PfFtHng in Jplebu. 
