Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula - Sabrizain.org

66 RACIAL AFFINITIES part
Like the Semang they are strict in their observ-
ance of the marriage tie, but unUke them they
have the greatest possible fear of death, or rather,
perhaps, of the ghost of the deceased, and will
frequently burn down or desert an encampment in
which a death has occurred.
III.
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Race-Characters of Jakun.
There remains for consideration the third group
of tribes which inhabit the southern portion of the
Peninsula, These are the mixed tribes of Martin, and 1
include the Jakun or "savage Malays" of Wallace.
They fall into three main and two subordinate groups,
the latter of which are without doubt closely allied.
1. Tribes mainly of Semang origin, e.g. the
Kenaboi (?) and perhaps the Udai.
2. Tribes mainly of Sakai origin, e.g. the Blandas
and Berembuns (?).
3. The Jakun or Malayan aborigines, comprising
{a) The Orang Bukit, or Land (lit. " Hill") Jakun.
{b) The Orang Laut, or Sea Jakun.
Although it is not possible at present to make a I
proper classification of all the tribes of the Jakun
group, it may yet be useful to attempt a rough and
general identification of them so far as the very scanty
information we possess will take us.
The Blandas properly so called, whose home is in
Southern Selangor, have been described by Martin as
dolichocephalic, and hence are most likely to prove
largely of Sakai extraction.^ Their exact affinities,
1 For the " Blandas," see also Lenggeng, Singa Kuasa, and Pakat,
Newbold, ii. 393, where we are told and four Jinangs or chiefs of the
that they had (in 1839) four Batins second rank, viz. Pawang Padiching
or chiefs of the first rank, viz. Baning, (" Pawampa de Cheyng"!), Ampu
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