THE BINUA OP JOHORE. 
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find the Made rise. On the north west they do not extend beyond 
the Simpang Kiri and Pan. About half a day’s walk from the source 
of the former rises an affluent of the rive 1 * Muar called Sungei Pago,, 
which gives its name to a tribe found on its banks and amongst the adja¬ 
cent hills. The Binua described the orang Pago as a wild race, naked, 
without houses, shunning all intercourse with the Malays, and having 
very little even with them. If this description be correct they are 
probably a secluded and rude branch of the Udai, or, it may be, of 
the Jakuns. Whether the Pahang tribes immediately to the north 
of the Indau (who are said to be very numerous,) are similar to the 
Binua I had no opportunity of ascertaining, but the Binua inhabiting 
the country which I have indicated, whether they are as distinct from, 
the tribes on the north east of the Peninsula as they are from those 
on the northwest or not, undoubtedly form a separate tribe in them¬ 
selves ; for, while they are all mutually related, they have no connec¬ 
tion with any other tribes, and hardly any knowledge of such. Their 
language, appearance, and habits are similar. They describe them¬ 
selves as being “ leaves of the same tree,” I met with individuals 
on the Indau who had relatives and acquaintances on the Lingiu, 
Sayong, Binut, and the branches of the Batu Paliat, and who had vi¬ 
sited all these rivers: but beyond this circle their geographical ideas 
were almost a total blank. 
As I shall have occasion in the sequel to compare the Binua of 
Joliore in some respects with the group of aboriginal tribes inhabit¬ 
ing the next system of rivers, I extract a brief account of their distri¬ 
bution from an unpublished narrative of an excursion which I made 
into Naning and Rambau in February last and in which some infor¬ 
mation obtained subsequently is now embodied. 
The lofty Gunong Bcrmun (which is probably nearly one hundred 
miles to the north of the Lulumut group) with the mountains which 
adjoin it, may be considered the central highlands of these tribes. 
In the ravines and vallies of Gunong Bermun two of the largest ri- 
evrs of the Peninsula, the Pahang and the Muar, with their nume¬ 
rous upper tributaries have tlieir source. There also rises the Si- 
mujong which unites with the Lingf. 
The upper part of these rivers and many of their feeders are occu¬ 
pied by five tribes of aborigines differing somewhat in civilization and 
language. The Udai (who appear to be the same people who are 
known to the Binuas of Joliore under the name of orang Pago) are 
lound on some of tire tributaries of the Muar, as the Segamet, Pa- 
lungan and Kapi, and in the vicinity of Gunong Ledang. This 
