Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula - Sabrizain.org

I RACE-CHARACTERS OF SAVAGE MALAYS 71
the name of Orang Pago) are found on some of the
tributaries of the Muar. This tribe has less approxi-
mated to Malayan habits than the others/
Newbold,^ on the other hand, makes the following
remarks about this tribe :
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The Udai tribe is little known. The Tuanku
Putih of Rembau once informed me that the Udai
were a race of savages thinly scattered over the states
of Jelebu, Pahang, Trengganu, and Kedah, and that
they resembled in features the darker variety of
Jakun.^ Their size is represented as smaller, and
their habits more savage.
Newbold regards them as distinct from the Benua,
under which title he groups the following tribes :
Jakun, Orang Bukit, Rayat, Utan, Sakai, Alas,** Blan-
das, Besisi, and Akik.
Vaughan-Stevens ^ has the following note on the
Udai :—
* Tame '
" The term Udai is applied by the Pangan to
" (i) The pygmy tribes of Belum in Perak.
"(2) By the Malays to the Orang Jinak or
Semang.
" (3) And also to a species of demon (Hantu), who
was sometimes identified with the whole jungle race,
whom many
'Udai Pari.'"
Patani Malays call ' Hantu Pari,' or
Belum, as already noted, is in the extreme north
of Perak, but the people referred to are Semang, as
may also be the Udai of Newbold and Logan. The
latter live on the Muar, which rises in the Negri
1 Logan, vol. i. I.e. Perak" (Newbold, ii. 383). It should
2 Newbold, ii. 381, 382 be noted that such names as "Orang
^ I.e. the Negrito element among Bukit," " Rayat," and " Orang Utan "
the Jakuns. or " Alas," can hardly be considered as
* The "Alas are said to be a tribal names,
tattooed race, living in the interior of ^ P. loi.