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altogether extinct, as an Achinese settled at Bidor offered to steal us a live Sakai, 
if we would give him fifty dollars. Chinamen, on the other hand, recognize 
that it is more profitable to be on good terms with the Sakais, and, therefore, 
treat them with some appearance of generosity, obtaining in return good bar- 
gains in the way of poultry, jungle produce, and tin. In short, it maybe said 
that the Malay is the only person with whom he is likely to come in contact 
that the Sakai is really afraid of under British protection. 
It is quite impossible to define the geographical limits of the tribe we 
have called Mai Darat with any accuracy. On the western side they occupy 
the upper parts of the valleys of the Batang Padang, Sungkei, Slim, and, perhaps, 
the Bernam Rivers, while they certainly extend eastwards, over the range, to 
the Telom valley, down which they spread in all probability to a lower level 
than on the western side, as the country is very little occupied by settled races. 
It is probable, indeed almost certain, that each of the numerous divisions into 
which the tribe is broken up has its own hunting-grounds ; but how far these 
divisions are identical with the various camps we cannot say. It seems likely 
that the Mai Darat are the same tribe as that described by previous writers as 
Sennoi or Sinnoi, and that sennoi is a word equivalent to hami, meaning 
‘ men.’ It is much to be regretted that the authorities on the wild tribes of 
the Malay Peninsula have, in many cases, been most negligent in stating 
the exact localities with which they deal, and this appears to be one of the 
principal causes of the extreme confusion in which questions connected with 
these tribes are now involved. 
The Orang Bukit of Selangor. 
About six miles out of Kuala Lumpor, the capital of the Federated Malay 
States and of Selangor, we paid two visits to a Sakai community of some six 
households, at a place called Labuansara. The people told us that they called 
themselves Orang Bukit, but this is only a Malay name, meaning ‘ hill men.’ 
In physical character they bore a general resemblance to the Mai Darat 
but several individuals showed a greater approximation to the Malay type than 
any Sakai whom we saw in Perak. Indeed, a few of the men and women could 
only be distinguished from Malays by the brightness of their eyes, and by the 
gait so characteristic of all the jungle tribes. The hair of the men was cut so 
short that it was difficult to diagnose its true character ; that of the women was 
always slightly wavy, but never sufficiently removed from straight to be called 
curly. It was so plastered with oil that it was probably made to appear even 
straighter than it naturally was, and in one case we found that it was largely 
supplemented with the combings from a Chinaman’s pigtail, which, of course. 
