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THE BINUA OF JOTIORE. 
tribe has less approximated to Malayan habits than the others. The 
Jakun partially frequent the same territory, the lower part of Palung- 
»n, G&ppam &c., and extend northwards and north westward within 
the British boundaries. They are found at Tidong, Ayer Chfrmfn, 
Ayer I tam, Darat Yassin, Ulu Kissing and Bukit Singer. The 
Mintika, the largest tribe, dwell around Gunong Bermun and the 
adjacent mountains, G. Rissam,G. Licha, G. Singwang, G. Kamu- 
iring, ,G. Kayu Libet and G. Garun. They possess the higher part 
of both the western and eastern streams. Thus they occupy the 
Triang, Simplas, Gipau, Bangkong, Gading and Tuang. On the 
south they frequent the upper part of the Langat &c. Amongst the 
other streams occupied by them are the Limama, Ayer Mangis, 
Langkap, Kunu, Kapayang, Ndhacha, Sabangas, Sabulu, S£neng, 
Jimpul, Bayai, Tapak, Jilibu, Singf, Berumpun, Klassa, Jinam, 
Kamen, Trus, Bjlabong, and Klawang. The Sakai succeed to them 
in the interior, frequenting the neighbourhood of Gunong Kinabuh 
On the north west the Mintira march with the Be sisi, one of the 
most numerous tribes, who occupy all the streams bowing in that 
direction from Gunong Bermun and the mountains lying to the south¬ 
ward of it, as G. Angsi, G. Beraga and G. Datu. It is this tribe 
which occupies the Sungei Ujong and Lingi, the Lukut, the Sippang, 
and the lower part of the Langat, with their feeders, the Kallang, 
PL jam, Tike, Jijan, Lamar, Gallah, Labu, Chinehang, Trip, Girintul, 
Rami, Lana, Gimru, Pmang See. 
Althougli these five tribes, (as well as those inhabiting all the in¬ 
terior of the Peninsula to the north), are sometimes called Orang 
Binua, 1 shall, in this paper, restrict that designation to the abori¬ 
gines of Johore, and term the next group the Bermun tribes, from 
the circumstance of most of the streams on which they are found 
rising in the Bermun mountain system, receiving accessories from it, 
or joining rivers which have their source in its ravines. 
If the reader will refer to a map of the Peninsula, he will remark 
that on reaching the parallel of 2° 52’ N. (which passes through 
Parcelar hill on the west, and the northern part of P. Tioman on the 
east, coast), the western shore of the Malacca Straits is suddenly de¬ 
flected to SE. by E., a direction which it pursues with almost unde- 
viating regularity to the extreme Point of the Peninsula, Tanjong 
Burn (or Boulus), and which causes a rapid contraction in the 
breadth of the Peninsula. This narrow extremity of the continent, 
resting on the above parallel, (or perhaps more correctly on a line, at 
right angles to the range of tl;e Peninsula, joining Parcelar hill and 
