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76 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [Vol. VII,
we walked, on the next day, to Sungei Siput, via the bridlepath,
leaving the elephants with the baggage to follow the
track, which we had made use of before. These animals
arrived at Sungei Siput at about 4 p.m. on the day after.
There is little to note with regard to the few Sakai
we met on the Korbu River. Traces of Negrito admixture
could be detected in some
features and in the character of
individuals,
their hair.
both in their
In Toh Intan's
village there seemed to be very few articles which could be
classed as distinctively Sakai, and the only specimen of much
interest that I purchased was a heavy carved wooden comb, of
a type which seems to be only used by the Kinta and Korbu
aborigines. The other objects that I bought were a long mat
and two or three carrying baskets. There were no blow-pipes
in the settlement. According to Toh Intan, his people speak
the same dialect as the Sakai of the Plus and Kinta Rivers.
With the former they are in constant contact, but they rarely
have anything to do with the latter. ' Two of the houses in the
settlement were of a curious type and were turreted, one
bearing two the other a single erection of this kind. On the
former, one turret was ornamented with a curiously carved
decoration made of small pieces of wood, the other, as was the
first, was roofed over at the top with a piece of board, and had
lost its ornament. On the second house the single turret was
crowned by an old kerosine tin, filled with earth, in which
plants of some kind were growing. Toh Intan's own house
was well built, and consisted of a large central sleeping room,
with a cook-house adjoining it on one side, and a lean-to building,
which was not raised from the ground, on the other.
On leaving Sungei Siput I proceeded to Tanjong Rambutan,
where, after some trouble, I procured a gang of Sakai coolies.
Starting with these, we followed Messrs. Osborne & Chappel's
pipe-line as far as the dam, and then the course of the Kinta
River. Our destination was a Sakai settlement close to Bukit
Daroh, which lies on the south bank of the Kinta.
The maps of the districts are. it would seem, exceedingly
incorrect, but on the way we passed the mouths of the
following rivers, the Proh, the Termin, the Takor, the Penoh,
the Liang and the Pedang, as well as several other streams,
most of them verv small, whose names I have not thought
necessary to record. Our first day's journey (we did not start
until nearly midday owing to the late arrival of our coolies and
to their insufficient numbers) took us to a little way above the
pipe-line dam. On the second we camped by the edge of a
deep pool in the Kinta River, which goes by the name of Lubok
Singet, somewhere between Kuala Termin and the mouth of the
Penoh River: and on the third night, we slept at Kuala Liang.
On the fourth day. we arrived at Bukit Daroh, and might
have reached there on the third, had the Sakai guide not led
me to believe that it was n long way further on. A mountain,
which the Sakai told me was Gunong Semawak, was visible