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three subdivisions. One large section of tlie tribe 
occupies the mountainous country to the north of the 
rivers Piah and Plus, and has been left untouched by 
European or Malay influence. Of these people, the 
Sakai Bukit of the local Malays, Mr. Berkeley writes : 
"They live along the bilk from TJlu Piah to the north, rarely 
below 2,000 feet, altbougli they make clearings lower down. They 
ore tall, aetive, well-fed, very deaji, and l>a.thing often. They plant 
tubers of many sorts, sugar-cane, millet, good kinds of Ixvnanaa — 
also jiand^n and Mt!n{ihta7ig for their baskets. They build got>d 
houses, generally on the ground, with walls ten feet high, like a 
Chmeae cooly -house, but sometimes well above the ground,*' 
These Sahai BuJdt are the men described by Mr. Annan- 
dale under the name of Po-Elo, 
The large communal houses that are so distinctive a 
feature of the culture of thk tribe liave been seen in 
many places. Mr. L. Wray found one in the valley of 
the Plus and another (I believe) near the upper waters 
of tlie Telom. Mr. Hale records a similar house from 
Ulu Kinta. Mr. Annandale seems to have seen them 
(through a telescope) from Temengor. And this recorded 
evidence can be supplemented by unpublished testunony. 
Mr. Berkeley has found communal houses at various 
places on the mountains of Upper Perak. Survey 
parties have reported them from Gunoug Grah. The 
late Mr, Woodgate when surveying in the vicinity 
of Cameron's plateau came across one of these long houses 
in which he counted the hearths of fifteen famiUes. A 
French mining en gineei% M. Descraques, in the service 
of the Societe des Etains de Kinta, had a ^milar experi- 
ence. "When sent out on a prospecting trip into the 
Batang Padang mountains (behind Kuala Dipang) he 
found that the Central Sakai aborigines of the foot-hills 
