ABORIGINAL TRIBES: DU'ISIOXS OF RACE. 1/ 
refused to accompany liim beyond a certain elevation 
as they objected to enter the territory of an alien race 
speaking a different tongue. Pressing on with only one 
companion he came npbn an extensive clearing where 
be saw a large communal bouse raised on posts to a 
lieight of some four feet from the ground. Ho 
described the occupants of this house as men of heavy 
build and sullen expression^ who showed no hospitality 
and were even menacing in their attitude, though they 
did not go so far as to attack him. Mr. Henggeler 
when travelling on the mountains between Pcrak and 
Kelantau (at a height of about 4,000 feet) bad another 
experience of tbe same sort. He found a clearing with 
a long unoccupied communal hut. He and his party 
camped there foi- the night. During the small lioui*s of 
tbe morning some fifty Sakai entered the house and sat 
round the intruders, glariug at them and declining to 
speak Malay though one or two seemed to understand 
what was being said. They refused to sell or barter 
anytbi'ng; and when it was daylight fcbey followed 
Mr. Henggeler for some distance beyond tbe limits of 
their clearing, 80 much for th§ testimony of European 
eye-mtnesses. Of other evidence there is also a good ^ 
deal, in the form of statements by Malays and by the 
aborigines themselves. 
Clearly, therefore, communal bouses are to be found 
throughout the Northern Sakai area, from Temengor in 
the north to the Batang Padaug mountains in the 
south. But they are only to be found at great 
elevations. The aborigines of the foot-hills build huts 
like the Malays and have assimilated a great deal of 
Malay culture, though in language and physique they 
resemble the Sakai Bukit of the highlands. All that 
