ABORIGINAL TRIBES: DIVISIONS OF RACE, II 
Matang and in IJpj>er Perak. At one time they were to 
be found on colonial territory as well; but the last 
Semang (who " twittered like a bird according to the 
enuiuerator) was recorded from Province Welleslejat 
the censns of 189L Elsewhere also they are dying out. 
There are about twenty-six " Swamp-Seraang" near 
Ijok and three in the Matang district. A special interest 
attaches to these few surriving coast-uegritoes because 
of their isolation and comparative freedom from Sakai 
influence and admixture. 
In Upper Perak negntoes are known to inhabit the 
banks of the Perak river from Lenggong to its source. 
They go there by the name of " Bakai Jeram." Mr. 
Berkeley, the District Officer, who knows them well, 
writes of them : 
**Tliey live on tlic Hat near tbo Penik rivtT though they 
nmke very little use of it mid are jjoor men cm a raft or in a lupid. 
They 8peak a different language to the Sakai Bukit, with many words 
the same. They are usually thin and email, and often show signs of 
Bkiu disease (kuraji). They never wash. Yet the Sakai Bukit eunfess 
to being afraid of thein» and they undoubtedly are. They plant 
rice, bananas, and all sorts of things, but never plant enough, tmd are 
always in a state of hunger and want. They live in wretched houses 
and shift (|Uttrters very often.'* 
Kacially tliey are of a pure negrito type, but in the 
matter of culture they are in constant relation with the 
Northern Sakai and with the Malays. Their language 
is nearer Northern Sakai tliau the Semaug of Ijok, though 
they show a racial inability to pronounce the letter r. 
They were visited by Mr. Nelson Annandale, who was 
misled by their name into believing them to be expert 
boatmen, and whose assertion that they were " sensitive 
to wet" luay be taken as an autkropologisit's ec|uivalenfc 
