Abstract
ABORIGINES OF THE MALAY PENINSULA.—In vol. xii, pt. 1 of the Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums, Mr. Ivor?.?. Evans gives an account of an expedition to Mt. Gunong Benom, Pahang, undertaken in March and April 1923 for the purpose of verifying a statement made by Wilkinson in the 1911 Census Report that “the wild tribes on Gunong Benom spoke a distinct dialect of their own … and it is not possible at present to say whether this distinction is accompanied by any racial or cultural differences.” As a result of his investigations, Mr. Evans is doubtful whether the census enumerators visited the mountain or induced the inhabitants to come down from it. He himself was unable to find any traces of aborigines or of their occupation, and, with the exception of two Sakai-Jakun, no aborigines were found on the western side. On the way down to Kuala Krau an aboriginal settlement was reached at Galong, near Kuala Krau, and the inhabitants there, who were Jakun speaking a Sakai dialect, informed him that there were no aborigines on Gunong Benom, though Negritos (Batek) of Ulu Cheka visited it to collect Ipoh poison. Mr. Evans also obtained information of two divisions of aborigines on the Lompat river, of whom one, the So-ben, is very wild, lives in shelters, does not cultivate the soil, and uses stone knives for cutting and splitting wood.
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