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elements are more easily weeded out. Among the 
mixed tribes of Selangor, Negri Sembilan and most 
parts of ’Pahang, the bamboo blowpipe is in use and 
this must, I think, have been adopted from the Sakai 
proper. In one small area of Pahang, however, a 
type of blowpipe is to be found which is unknown 
elsewhere in the Malaysian region. It is made of 
two long pieces of wood, grooved longitudinally. 
The grooves are placed together, so as to form the 
bore of the blowpipe, the outside is rounded off, 
treated with raw rubber, or some other sticky 
substance, and bound round and round with rattan 
cane. The southern Jakun do not make, or now 
naturally use, the blowpipe, but imported wooden 
one-piece blowguns are said to be occasionally found 
in their hands. 
The Total The total number of aborigines of all 
numbers kinds as shown at the last census 
of the (1921) was 32,448 for the whole of 
Aborigines. British Malaya, 27,497 being enumer- 
ated in the Federated Malay States. 
No attempt is made in the census report to show 
the numbers of the different races separately. 
Malays and Except with regard to their degree of 
their origin, civilization, the Malays stand in regard 
to the aborigines somewhat in the 
same relation as the Teutonic peoples of England 
do to the Welsh. That is to say they are more re- 
cent invaders of the country, though old established 
ones now. At the present day they despise the 
aborigines as heathens, in their estimation little 
superior to animals, while they fear them as the 
possessors of the secrets of magic and of drugs 
whose uses they have, perhaps, learnt through 
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