ABORIGINAL TRIBES: DIVISIONS OP RACE, it 
THE CEXTBAL SAKL\r, 
On the maiti range of the Malay Peninsula between 
Mount Berembnn in the north and Tanjong Malim in the 
south we find a third race of ahorigines — ^the Central 
Sakai '* of Blagden, the " Senoi of Clifford, the " Mai 
Darat " of Annandale and Robinson and ilj Friends the 
Savages " of Cerruti. Of tliese varied designations 
the 6rst is the least confusing, noAV that we know that the 
Northern Bakai of the Phis valley, a different race, also 
speak of themselves as Senoi and Mm BamL The Central 
Sakai have abrupt racial frontiers both to the north and 
to the south. Question a Mnt Daraf of the upper 
Kampar valley and you will be surprised to find that he 
knows next to nothing about the ITlu Kinta aborigines 
from whom he is only separated by a low spur of the 
great range. It is the same in the south wheif we come 
to the Besisi border. The line of demarcation is clear 
and unmistakable ; there is no mixed tribe, no half-way 
house, so to speakj to break the transition from one race 
to another. To the east, however, where the same tribe 
meets the Jakun, things are different; we meet there 
with curious mongrel communities, half Jakun and half 
Senoi, with a patchwork language and culture that 
we cannot classify with any definiteness. But there is 
nothing knoivn as yet to explain why the Central Sakai 
should intermarry with their eastern neighbours while 
refusing all intercourse with the tribes to the north and 
to the south of them. 
The culture and customs of the Central Sakai are tho 
special subject oi the second portion of this pamphlet, so 
that at this stage we are only concerned with the place 
of this tribe in the ethnology of the Peninsula. There 
can be no doubt that its closest affinities are 'with its 
