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b. Malays of the Region of Sapulo Rua Bandar and 
Gunong Sun yet Pagu. 
This is the continuation of the Menangkabau region to 
the south, retaining the same breadth, and extending to the 
south of the southern Gunong Berapi on the confines of 
the Korinchi country. Tt is mountainous throughout and 
does not appear to contain any large fertile vallies. The 
higher branches of the Batang Hari Jambi are comprised 
in it. Gunong falang in the N. W. rises to the height of 
10,032 /I G Berapi has a great elevation but its height has 
not been ascertained. This country has not been explored 
by Europeans, and as we do not hear of any populous vallies 
in it, we may conclude that it is thinly inhabited, and allow 
it 15 to a mile, which, its surface being 3,250 miles, will 
give a population of about 40,000. 
c. I he Korinchi, 
This race essentially Malayan* occupy the continuation 
of the mountain region southward from Gunong Sungei 
Pagu district as far as a line drawn N.E. byE. from the mouth 
of the Katauh. The proper country of the Korinchi is the 
north eastern portion of this tract, but the clans occupying 
Serampei, Smigei Tenang, Limim and Labun appear to be 
allied to them. Korinchi itself contains several lakes, and 
these with the streams to the southward as far as Limun 
feed the central and southern branches of the Jambi. This 
tract is 100 m long, and 50 m. broad, which gives a surface 
of 5,000 miles- The population may be reckoned at 15 per 
mile and will amount to 75,000. 
d. The Raw a. 
This people, who are of the same race as the Malayan 
highlanders to the south of them, and differ from them chiefly 
in being more adventurous, occupy the mountain territory 
drained by the Rakan and its tributaries, a square of about 
40 miles lying immediately to the north of Menangkabau* 
Their number is probably 25,000t or about 16 to the square 
mile, but in the valley of the Sumpur where they are chiefly 
concentratedJ the mean must be much greater. 
* The Korinchi still preserve an original (Indo-Malay) alphabet. It is 
extremely probable that the Malays *o the north of them used this alphabet 
before they adopted the Arabic, 
f Francis. 
\ OsthofF, Tijd. N, I. 7di y. 1st P p. 16. 
