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tainous. Here the Malay population is again 
found along the main rivers and their tributaries. 
Kelantan and Trengganu also contain a riverine 
population and the latter much mountainous country. 
These three states, too, owing to their unexploited 
condition, contain a far smaller proportion of 
foreigners to natives than do those of the west 
coast. 
Parts of the eastern states are at the present 
day almost in the condition in which the western 
were twenty-five years ago. 
The Pagan The Peninsula contains pagans repre- 
Races. sentative of three races, who, as being 
earlier arrivals in the country than the 
Malays, are often termed aborigines, though, in the 
pure state, the racial difference between the group 
of which I treat first, and either of the other two, 
is as great as that between a native of England and 
a Chinese. 
The The first group, the Negritos, appear 
Negritos. to belong to a very ancient and primi- 
tive stock. Their near relatives are 
the native inhabitants of the Andaman Islands, and 
tribes of similar people, sometimes called Aetas, of 
. certain islands of the Philippines. There has been 
a good deal of speculation as to whether they are 
in any way connected with the pygmy tribes of 
Central Africa and the Bushmen of the south of 
that continent, as well as with the pygmy peoples 
of New Guinea, and with the Negroid race which 
dwelt in parts of Europe during the Aurignacian 
age of the Palaeolithic period. 
