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CHAP. V SAVAGE MALAYS OF SELANGOR 139
which is a mere list of place-names/ we have few trust-
worthy records of the words of Sakai songs, with the
exception of the account by Colonel Low, where we
are told that their " Mampade," or airs were much in
the Siamese style (which last undoubtedly takes the
lead amongst the musical compositions of the Indo-
Chinese nations), and that their songs had an inter-
mixture of Malay, as in the following specimen which
was sung somewhat in the Siamese mode :
Pirdu salen kinnang ingat sampei
Yari mola asa] nyite gyijen
Ayer ambun umbun moli
Kiri baju layang mayep singi.
No satisfactory translation could be got of this
fragment, but the greater part of the words are
Malay.'-^
Selangfop Sakai.—The Sakai of Ulu Langat (as
also those of Perak) are very fond of " wind-organs,"
which are long bamboos with a slit in each inter-
node, which are lashed to the top branches of trees,
and which give out musical tones when the wind
blows over them.^
III. Jakun.
Musical Instruments.
Blandas.—The chief musical instruments of the
Blandas were their so-called bamboo "guitars," flutes,
Jew's-harps, and drums.*
A drum which I purchased with not a little
difficulty from a chief of the Blandas tribe, whose
encampment was situated in the swampy jungle
1 Hale, p. 296. 2 J /_ ^ vol. iv. p. 431.
^ H. J. Kelsall mJ.R.A.S., S.B., vol. xxiii. p. 69. For details, v. Perak
Mus. JV., iii. p. 74. * For Blandas songs and charms, r'.App.