ABORIGINAL TRIBES: DIVISIONS OF RACE, 33 
Sakai refuses to do so. The racial type of the 
aborigines of Sungkai and Slim is unmistakable and has 
no parallel anywhere else in tlie Peninsula. It suggests 
a pure race, a highly specialised physical type, and not a 
decadent offshoot of the more pOAverful Northern Sakai. 
For an aboriginal tribe the Central Sakai are well- 
known to Europeans. Signer Cerruti lived with them ; 
Dr. Rudolf Martin measured them; Sir Hugh ClifFord 
studied them; Messrs. Annandale and Kobinson visited 
them; and "Professor*' Yanghan- Stevens associated 
them with the most sensational of his many stories. 
They may be regarded as the "stock" or **show" 
Sakai of the Peninsula, the aborigines who will bo 
exhibited to the globe-trotter when that ubiquitons 
gentleman begins to overrun this eountry. But between 
them and their visitors there remains always the banner 
of a racial suspicion that is not to be overcome and 
of a language of overwhelming difficulty. Much is 
known, but much more remains to be known, It is 
uncertain whether their country has been fully explored. 
From the mountains behind Sungkai and Slim, the very 
home of the purest Central Sakai, there come runionrs 
of the existence of the long communal houseSs the larger 
clearings and, the more organised communities that we 
associate with the Northern Sakai culture. As tangible 
evidence of some such mystery collectors have obtained 
from this region — the region furthest removed from the 
Korthern Sakai area — blow-pipes and quivers that show 
signs of a better craftsmanship than that of which the 
Central Sakai arc capable. Moreover, while the true 
" Benoi " quiver is plain, the quivers brought down from 
these distant hills are covered sometimes with incised 
patterns suggesting the art of the north. In spite of 
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