Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula - Sabrizain.org

76 RACIAL AFFINITIES part
of Rembau, Negri Sembilan, etc.)—were very short,
their physiognomy was low, and seemed to announce
great simpHcity ; many of them were ugly and badly
made—they had the inferior part of the nose much
depressed—but though their lips projected a little they
were generally well formed. To the foregoing Favre
adds that he had already observed that this class of
Jakun bore 2. great resemblance to the Malay; or at
least to many of the Malays.^
JoHOR Land-Tribes— Distribution.
The Jakun of Johor were spoken of by Logan
as being a taller race than those of Malacca. He
found several of them with hawked or aquiline
noses ^— the men were healthy but generally thin;
the women, on the contrary, were plump, and though
healthy too, were not particularly " stout " (.'^).
Logan has given the fullest account of the wild folk
that inhabit Johor, He divided them into several
distinct tribes, the first of which he called the Orang
Benua of Johor. These occupied all the interior of
Johor properly so called. They also possessed the
interior of the most southerly portion of Pahang. The
most definite description of their territory, however,
was that they occupied the upper branches of the most
southern system of rivers in the Malay Peninsula.^
These rivers, from west to east, were the Batu Pahat,
the Pontian, the Johor river, and the Endau. This
latter communicates in its upper reaches with the Batu
Pahat by a branch called the Sembrong, so that the
1
J. I. A. vol . ii.
2 This, coupled
p. 246.
with the greater
may be due.
appear to be
It does not, moreover,
so common as to be
height, points to some sort of admixture, typical of the tribe, much less of the
but it is impossible in the absence of race.
further details to say to what race it 3 y; /. ^. vol. i. p. 246 stq.