FASCICULI MALATENSES 
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to the more general use of shoes, appeared to be less flattened, with a some¬ 
what higher instep ; but these racial differences, if they exist in reality, are but 
slight. 
A slight amount of prognathism was usually present, but the lips on the 
whole were not as thick as among the East Coast Malayo-Siamese. The 
general character of the face was more or less platyprosopic, and there was 
often a marked asymmetry between the ears, due to the habit of carrying small 
objects behind one or the other. 
Our information on the general customs and mode of life of the South 
Perak Malay is, for the reasons we have indicated, so scanty that we propose 
to incorporate it in our fuller paper on the Malayo-Siamese, 
( B ), Upper Perak Malays 
The inhabitants of Northern Perak seem to be identical with the * Malays/ 
or perhaps, to speak more accurately, with the Samsams of the adjacent parts 
of Rhaman and Kedah, from one or other of which states the greater number 
of them claim to derive their ancestry. They do not differ at all conspicuously 
from the Samsams of Trang, being, in all probability, very closely related to 
them. Their noses are inclined to be straighter, and their faces are distinctly 
flatter and broader than those of their southern compatriots, and their skin has 
a tendency to be yellower and clearer, while their stature is slightly greater. 
Annandale noticed a considerable number of Malays in Upper Perak and in 
the Jarum district of Rhaman, whose eyes were reddish-brown, of a paler shade 
than that common among the Semdn. The hair of those Malays who live in 
Upper Perak on the north-east of the Perak River is almost invariably straight 
and lank and has no reddish tinge, but, as already noted, the inhabitants of 
Temongoh, a village on the other side of the stream, are so largely the 
immediate offspring of ( aborigines’ converted to Islam that they differ in type 
from their neighbours, having, in a large proportion of individuals, hair that 
is not straight. The lank-haired * Indo-Chinese* type of Malay is predominant 
in a region that stretches from about half-way between Kuala Kangsar and 
Grit, in Upper Perak, right across the main range of the Peninsula in a north¬ 
easterly direction, to Jarum, in Rhaman. Once Annandale reached the Patani 
River on his journey across the Peninsula at this level, he found that wavy or 
curly hair, dark complexions, and other evidences of Semang blood, were 
characteristic of a large proportion of the rather scanty settled population, but 
that a comparatively small number of individuals, who often belonged to 
families the other members of which exhibited the characters just noted, had 
lank hair, while their complexion was so yellow that they appeared quite pale 
