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FASCICULI MALA TENSES 
Two separate tribes inhabit the neighbouring jungle, one living near 
the village, in subjection to the Malays, the other leading an independent 
existence on the hills, where they make large clearings for the cultivation of 
tapioca, yams, bananas, and millet—rice they refuse to eat. These two tribes, 
however, do not appear to be racially distinct from one another ; we have 
called them * Sakais * in the text, but it is evident, I think, that they are 
merely Semangs with some Malay blood in their ancestry, so that the term 
* bastard Semangs/ which is used on the map, defines them more clearly. I 
reached Temonggoh on foot from Grit; the journey, along a very bad elephant 
track for the greater part of the way, should only have taken two days, but 
my guide lost the way, and 1 only discovered that we were travelling in a 
circle by noticing a hornbiirs feather on the ground beside a tree trunk, where 
1 remembered seeing it before, so that we were obliged to spend two nights 
in the jungle. On this journey I was very much struck by the variety of 
frogs and toads in the old jungle, where I noted eight species in one day, and 
also by the sounds produced by stridulating insects at night and by small birds 
early in the morning ; indeed, the fauna of the tree-tops appeared to be richer 
than in any locality where we made zoological collections. 
I stayed at Temonggoh for four days in April, 1902, obtaining some 
photographs, anthropological measurements, and ethnographical specimens, as 
well as four skulls of one of the jungle tribes, known as Sakai Jehehr. 
NELSON ANNANDALE 
