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ITINERARY IN PERAK, SELANGOR, AND THE 
SIAMESE MALAY STATES 
By NELSON ANNANDALE AND HERBERT C. ROBINSON 
A S accurate information regarding the Malay Peninsula, and especially 
those states under Siamese rule, is difficult of access, or altogether 
inaccessible, we have thought it well to add to our report a brief 
general account, personal as well as zoological and anthropological, of the 
places at which we stayed and the country we traversed. Those sections of 
the itinerary deal with districts we visited together which have been prepared 
jointly, but as each of us worked in places of which the other can have little 
or no first-hand information, one or other has added his name at the end of 
other sections, which treat, chiefly or wholly, of places for the facts regarding 
which he is alone responsible. 
PART I. PERAK AND SELANGOR 
South Perak 
W E stayed rather over two months in the Batang Padang district of South 
Perak, the greater proportion of our time being devoted to anthro¬ 
pological work, though conditions relatively more favourable than in 
the Patani States enabled us to get together a considerable zoological 
collection, representing nearly all terrestrial divisions of the animal kingdom. 
The district, as a whole, has only been opened up within the last twenty years, 
and before was entirely buried in primaeval jungle, with only a few scattered 
Malay hamlets and a comparatively large number of Sakai camps. It is now, 
under British administration, one of the most important mining districts in the 
state of Perak, while planting operations have also been commenced on a consider- 
ahlescale, though the high price of labour,due to the mining industry, has militated 
against this form of activity. Under these circumstances, it will be readily 
understood that the district is by no means a favourable one for studying the 
