254 POPULATION AND PLACES OF HABITATION# 
Bukit Gadong, Tanka, and it is reported there are a good number at 
Segamefc. Those I styled Jakuns of Johore, because they inhabit 
that part of the Peninsula which is under the sway of the sultan of Jo- 
hore, cannot amount to more than one thousand, scattered over that 
large extent of country; from two to three hundred fell under my ins¬ 
pection at the following places ; at the extremity of the Johore river, 
where there are several hundred of them living under a Panghulu 
Bateen, duly appointed by the late sultan of Johore, and by the pre¬ 
sent Tammungong of Singapore; at a place entirely in the interior 
of the Peninsula called Kembao,* and at the extremity of the Banut s 
river; the others I havfe not seen are to be found at Pontian, Ayo, 
Klambo, on the river of Batu Pahat, the Rio Formosa of the Portuguese, 
and in several other places. Those I called Jakuns of the Menang- 
kabau states, 1 suppose to amount to about three thousand; I have 
seen only a few hundred of them, at Sungie Ujong, where they are at 
least five hundred, at Jellabu,at Rumbow and at Johole where they are 
in small number; and on the Company’s territory at Rombia where 
there are now one hundred. Those I have not visited are to be found 
at Sriminanti, Ulu Muar, Jelley, Lingi, Langhat, Ulu Coleng and 
in the whole of the mountainous chain running down the middle of 
the Peninsula until Kedah. I am induced to believe that those who 
are said to inhabit the forest of Pahang are an extension of those of 
the Menangkabau states,f except perhaps those who are white whom 
1 have already mentioned. During* the last few months many fami¬ 
lies of the Jakuns of Sungie Ujong have come into the Company’s 
territories. From what I can learn the following seems to be the cause 
of that emigration. About the month of May (1847), some Jakuns 
having killed several elephants took the liberty to sell the ivory tusks 
and to apply the price of them to their private use; which the Ma¬ 
lay chief of that place pretended to be a violation of his rights, and 
* The author omits the Binuas of those portions of the Simeons; and 
other branches of the Indau which are id Johore. see vol. I. p. 240. Ed. 
■f This is true with respect to the central and northern parts of the interior 
of Pahang, if we may trust accounts which we have received from Min lira, 
and also from Malay traders who have crossed from Malacca to Pahang. 
But the southern part of Pahang is inhabited by the same tribe ofBinua 
who are found in Johore. (See ante vol. I. p. 247). Ed. 
