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A small number of Portuguese words they use would also seem 
further to iliieet our attention to that opinion, so that it would not 
very possibly be far from the truth, to call them the descendants of 
Portuguese, at least by their fathers side, who in imitation of Tu 
Puttair, may have taken to themselves wives from among the Ja- 
kun damsels. 
The second class of Jakuns, that is, those of Johore, are more nu¬ 
merous than those the preceding and are a finer race of men ; to whom 
I will apply what Lieut, Newbold says of the Jakuns in general, that 
their physiognomy, their lineaments, etc. point to a Tartar extraction. 
I had during my stay in China several opportunities of examining the 
Tartar soldiers of the celestial empire, and when 1 compare them with 
those Jakuns I can scarcely see any difference; but it is chiefly in the 
appearence of the eyes and in the nose that I found the resemblance 
perfect. So I see no objection, until further information or discovery, 
to coinciding with the opinion of Lieut. Newbold upon tills point. But 
though this may be the case for almost the whole of them, I must ob¬ 
serve nevertheless that a few of them form an exception to this rule, 
and bear the Arab stamp. Such were, amongst others, two indivi¬ 
duals I found on the extremity of the Banut river, who might pass 
as two of the finest Arabs. One of them, the son of a chief, is of a- 
bout the same age and the perfect likeness of the present sultan of Jo¬ 
hore, Tuanku Alii, who is one of the finest Arab descendants I have 
seen in the Straits. 
The third class of Jakuns, those of the Menangkabau states, seem 
to present the greatest difficulty in an inquiry as to their origin. How 
can they be considered as of Tartar extraction ? All the Tartars I 
have seen, were tall, at least as tall as the middle sized European, and 
many of them were taller ; with expressive eyes, and a nose which 
did not recede at the upper part; the facial angle also was apparently 
much the same as that of Europeans. But on the contrary the Ja¬ 
kuns of the Menangkabau states are very short, their eyes though 
expressive, are not so much so as those of the Tartars, the nose reced¬ 
ed at the upper part, and with the facial angle extremely acute. 
The people to whom these Jakuns bear the most resemblance are 
