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PAPERS ON MAIAY SUBJECTS, 
for Mr. Berkeley's plain Saxon statement tliat *'tbej 
neTer wash." 
On tlie mountain-range separating these negritoes of 
the Perak river from the negritoes of Ijok are a 
few nomadic negi'itoes who are described as " Hill 
Semaug " or Stmang BvhU. They have no very distinctive 
tribal character, being in relation with both the Smiang 
Pay a on one side and the 8al-ai Jeram on the other. 
Some of them were photographed and measured by 
a distinguished ethnologist with rather crael con- 
sequences; the illnesses that chanced to follow on this 
experience were ascribed to the photographer, with the 
result that many of the Semang died — perhaps of fright — 
and the rest fled. The aggressive ways of the modern 
anthropologist/' as one member of the Institute de- 
scribed them in a playful way, may be productive of 
misery and death when applied without consideration to 
these poor superstitious savages. 
On the banks of the streams that flow into the Perak 
river near its source there is found a small and little- 
known negrito tribe that goes by the Malay name of 
Sahji Tnvjoiuj or Sakai Jeher, Mr. Berkeley writes 
of them : 
•* They live m the Singob, ^m, and mmy other rirers on b<.»th 
sides of the Pemk, They clear no jimgle and pknt nothing at all, but 
live ou juugle roots. They are terrible thieves and steal from the 
clearings of the Biikit and Jeram Sakai. Still they ar« careful to 
avoid encroaching on the territory* of their neighbours, even if 
their neighbours have ripe jungle fruit and they have none and there 
is only a little stream dividing them. They live in huts made of 
a few palm-leaves bent over and they hang about vdlages to help 
to pound or harvest padi. They talk an absolutely distinct language 
(as compai-ed with the Sakiii Jeram and Sakai Bukit) and appear 
very closely akin to the Semang on the Kedah slope,'* 
