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28o NATURAL RELIGION AND FOLK-LORE part iii
They found the country attractive, and settled at
Kenaboi (the Mengiri river/ where the best bamboos
grow for blowpipes being not far away). This circum-
stance determined their choice of a settlement for a
long time, when they pushed gradually further down
the Pahang to the Pekoi, or, as the Malays called it
when they reached it, the Senoi (" Sinnoi ") river.
These two settlements perished through the
invasion of the Bataks and the Rawa ; their in-
habitants were dispersed, and united afterwards with
other tribes.
From Klang a great host of Sakai (" Blandas ")
including those who had attached themselves to
their companions after the attack on Pengkalan
Tampoi, had gone to a place east of Sungei Ujong,
which they called Kring,^ as their first settlement.
Later they spread to the north and east. In con-
sequence of the attack of the Bataks this section of
the race—known merely under the name of " Blandas "
—went further towards the north.
When, however, the Kenaboi men under Batin
P'rah had beaten back the Bataks, the greater part
of the now so-called Besisi came back.
Broken up, however, into separate family groups in
the time that followed, they ceased to form a separate
race, and scattered themselves among the Besisi
at Sungei Ujong, Perak,^ and especially Selangor.
Their countrymen in these places remarked that half
of the new arrivals brought with them a foreign
dialect. In addressing the inhabitants of Perak,
Selangor, and Sungei Ujong they all spoke the Sakai
tongue ; among
themselves they talked half Sakai,
' Sic, ? Nengjj;iri. - I'robably Triang or Tring.
•* One of V.-St.'s characteristic inaccuracies. There are no Besisi in Perak.