REMARKS ON THE SLETAR AND SAB I MBA TRIBES. 347* 
vigable part of either creek within two miles, there need not be any 
hesitation in proclaiming 1 their identity of origin, though now they 
live as separate tribes. The most distinctive features of the tribe 
are, lowness of brow, retreating backwards, from the superciliary 
ridge, a protrusion of the lower part of the face, not in the manner of 
prognathous tribes but by the acuteness of the facial angle, in illus¬ 
tration of this the profile of a boy of 12 years of age is appended, 
drawn from the living subject who possessed the distinctive type of 
tl*e race in an exaggerated degree. When viewed from the front they 
are found to possess an obliquity of eyes and eye brows, the eye lids 
being much closed and only showing half the pupil. The general 
contour of the face, obtains a decided character, by great breadth of 
forehead, expansion of zygoma, and rapid tapering to the chin wlucll 
is lengthy and narrow. The nose is depressed and mouth moderate. 
Such may be considered the distintive features of the race, though 
many were seen possessing the Malayan type strongly marked. 
The Orang Sabimba now remain to be noticed, and as an apology for 
the paucity of remarks and the errors that may be detected, I must men¬ 
tion that the morning on which I visited them it rained in torrents, 
which entirely prevented my reaching their encampment. It was 
therefore in a miserable Malay hut that 1 collected several of their 
number who were accidently on the spot, and to whom I am indebted 
for the following notes and information, though I am by no means 
satisfied with the result. 
Their pysiognomy is of an entirely different type from the tribe 
already discussed, and they also differ as much in habits and customs. 
They are forest nomades, being in possession of no boats or canoes 
of the most simple construction, and regarding the water with a de¬ 
gree of terror, as already mentioned in yofcir notice of them. To the 
sumpitan as their principal weapon they owe all that they can obtain 
of the animals that live in the trees of the forest, and with their 
dogs (a species of Pariah) thp.y hunt the wild hog. Their food con¬ 
sists of rice as the staple article, hut they add to this the flesh of the 
liog, monkey, snake and ape, birds of all kinds' excepting that of the 
fowl, for the reasons stated in your paper. They also abstain from 
