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particular ‘ aboriginal ’ community, is one which the Perak Government in- 
vestigates with the utmost care. A party of Chinese traders had settled at 
Temongoh shortly before my visit, and had entered into friendly relations 
with the Po-Klo, to whom they made presents of cloth, glass beads, tobacco* 
and the like. It was through their influence that the hill people were induced 
to come down to see me. It is very probable, however, that Malay outcasts 
have, from time to time, joined the tribe and become members of it. 
The Jehehr of Upper Perak (Plates V, fig. 1, VII, VIII, fig. 1). 
At Temongoh, also, I met some thirty individuals, men, women, and 
children, of a tribe whose native name is Jehehr ; while the Malays call them 
Sakai Tanjong , on account of their habit of camping on capes jutting out into 
the river. On the Perak river between Kuala Temongoh and Kuala Kendrong 
I saw a few more of these ‘ Cape Sakais,’ as well as several camps deserted by 
them. 
In physical type the Jehehr only differ from the Po-Klo in being rather 
emaciated, and in suffering from skin diseases of various kinds. The physical 
variation 1 they exhibit is just as remarkable. The clothing of the men is identical 
with that of the Po-Klo, and the women do not wear the uratbatu girdle. I noticed 
that several of the children wore a twisted string round the head and the lower 
part of the forehead, while the majority of the men wore fillets rather higher 
on the brow. These fillets consisted, in some cases, of filaments of urat batu 
tied behind the head, in others, of narrow bands of uratbatu and vegetable fibre 
plaited in alternate bars, the fibre being dyed of a bright yellow. In some 
cases the place of these fillets was taken by garlands of sweet-scented grass tied 
with teazed-out bark cloth. The nasal septum was pierced in the case of the 
men, and the young shoot of some zingiberaceous plant, that was used as a 
nose-skewer in the jungle, was thrust behind one ear on approaching the village. 
A few of the women had necklaces made of glass beads strung alternately with 
the incisor teeth of monkeys, as they told me, of the Lotong ( Semnopithecus 
obscurus). As a rule the Jehehr shave their hair in the Seman manner, leaving 
the top-knot. 
This tribe procures its blowguns and quivers from the Po-Klo, and most 
of its household implements and utensils from the Malays. Its members seem 
to be even more poorly provided with objects of their own manufacture than 
the Seman. 
The shelters constructed by the Jehehr differ in no respect from those of 
the Seman, but are sometimes arranged in a row so as practically to form a 
I. See Plate V, fig. 1. 
