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PAPERS ON MALAY SUBJECTS. 
, A diiference has also been drawn by making the 
bow a Semang and the blow-pipe a Sakai weapon, 
I am disposed to question this distinction. The negritoes 
use a very simple blow-pipe and quiver of a type never 
found among other tribes, but they also share with theii^ 
fairer neighbours the use of the bow and of the elaborate 
Nor them Sakai blow-pipe and qniver* The quiver 
that is used by the Semang only is a small and simple 
appliance, | inch to 2 inches in width, containing very 
few darts, and stoppered by the use of a handful of 
leaves. It is worn with the apertiu*e turned downwards 
so as to prevent the rain soaking throngh the stopper 
and spoiling the dart poison. But the quiver that is 
used by the Northern Sakai and by the Semang tribes in 
their vicinity is the most elaborate quiver in the Peninsula; 
it is very large (2^ to 4 inches wide), highly adorned, 
and closed by a well-fitting cover of woven fern-fibre* 
It is difficult to believe that the low culture of the 
negritoes is equal to such fine work (though it is equal 
to obtaining blow-pipes and quivers by barter for jungle 
produce) ; still less that it is equal to making the iron- 
tipped arrows tliat are associated with the Semang bow. 
The fact that the bow is the weapon of the Andaman 
Islanders is sufficient to explain why its occurrence in 
the Peninsula was ascribed to the Peninsular negritoes. 
Such a theory may be true of the past, but at the present 
moment the blow-pipe is the true weapon of both Sakai 
and Semang. 
THE NOETHERN SAKAL 
On the main range of the Malay Peninsula from 
Gunong Berembun in the south to the extreme limits 
of Perak in the north there are found certain aboriginal 
