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Title: Scottish geographical magazine Year: 1885 (1880s) Authors: Scottish Geographical Society Royal Scottish Geographical Society Subjects: Geography Publisher: Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Geographical Society Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Text Appearing Before Image: is, wherecivilisation was on a lower plane, and where Buddhistic ideas were veryprevalent, less fastidiousness was shown. The Sakais, who like the Semangs are very small people, unlike themare fair in complexion, oftenfairer than Malays. Theirorigin is evidently a mixedone. They are not serfs of theMalays but practise agricultureon a fairly extensive scale,though with very primitiveappliances, in the mountains,as far as possible from theMalays, who have alwayslooked upon them as a legiti-mate prey. The Governmentof the Federated Malay Statestacitly recognises them as lordsof the soil, permitting them towork tin-mines and to gatherjungle produce without alicence; but they are muchexploited by Chinamen, andeven, it is said, by unscrupu-lous Europeans. British rulehas certainly brought themincreased wealth, as they carrydown their goods into the towns and villages for sale and quite recognise the value of money; butthey appear, in many districts, to be coming under the influence of drink

Text Appearing After Image: Sakai Youth and Girl, with Leaf Girdles; BatPadang, South Perak. (From FasciculiMalayenses, Anthropology.) 348 SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE. and opium, and certainly their clearings in the vicinity of mining centreshave a far less healthy appearance than those away in the mountains.They are regarded as being under the special care of the ForestryDepartment, which has so far refrained from interfering with them, butlooks upon their wasteful system of making clearings with disapproval.The Jakuns would appear to be socially in much the same condition asthe Sakais. Intermarriage between Europeans and the indigenous races is rare,and there is in the peninsula no such body of half-castes as is found insome parts of the Dutch East Indies. It is only in a few localities,especially in Malacca (now a place of no importance), that Malay half-castesare commonly met with. They boast of high-flown Portuguese names, butare often almost black iu colour, for, as Wallace remarked, it is a curiousfact

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