FASCICULI MALATENSES 
IX 
I stayed at Grit from March 21st to April 3rd, 1902, and obtained there a 
considerable series of photographs, specimens (including a skeleton), and measure- 
ments illustrating the anthropology of the Semangs, and also a collection of the 
butterflies typical of the district, which differed considerably in its Rhopaloceran 
fauna from any we had visited, approaching the Jalor-Rhaman border most 
closely in this respect. 
Janhig. The government headquarters in Upper Perak at the time of 
my visit were here, though possibly they may have been moved elsewhere by 
this date. The place, situated on the Perak River, was very largely of European 
origin, and consists principally of government buildings and Chinese shops. 
The district magistrate, who until recently was the only European in the district, 
has an extremely comfortable house, with a large garden. The members of 
the Semang camps in the neighbourhood visit Janing regularly, where, it is 
said, they often get drunk. Rogue elephants have frequently broken down the 
telephone poles on the road between this place and Lenggong, and my men 
declared that one had attacked them as they loitered by the roadside behind 
my bullock cart. The road is not metalled, but is sufficiently good in dry 
weather to permit the passage of a gharry, or one-horse carriage. There is a 
good jungle-track, along which I walked twice, between Janing and Grit — a 
distance of about twenty-two miles. I stayed at Janing for a night or two on 
two occasions in March and April, 1902. 
Lenggong. This is really the biggest and most important place in Upper 
Perak, but it has an unfortunate reputation for gang robberies. The Malays 
here chiefly claim descent from Rhaman or Kedah, but have a fabric of 
pottery 1 that appears to belong to the characteristic Perak type. There are 
Klings, Chinamen, and other Oriental foreigners in the village, which is a 
model of orderliness and respectability, as far as outward appearances go, as 
compared with the dirty little mining centres of Batang Padang ; a fine rest- 
house, a hospital, and a school have a wonderfully civilized aspect. Janing is 
thirty-two miles distant from Kuala Kangsar, and the road is well metalled 
and in good condition, there being no government railway to compete with it. 
I left Kuala Kangsar by gharry at daybreak, and reached Lenggong in time 
for lunch, staying there for a night on my way to Janing, which is about 
twenty-six miles further on. 
Lemonggoh. The only other village but Grit of any importance in the 
New Territory, being in the centre of a region occupied by numbers of jungle 
folk, who bring in the rattans and other natural produce they collect. The 
inhabitants of the village are Malays, evidently with a considerable admixture 
of native blood in their veins, and a Chinese store has lately been set up. 
1. L. Wray, Journ. Anthrop. Inst., 1903, pp. 24-33. 
3/12/03 
