Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula - Sabrizain.org

CHAP. I MALAYAN
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kill, and when brought in contact from time to time
with more civilised people, showed no objection to any
kind of food, save the fowl, which they scrupulously
avoided. The wild animals and birds eaten were the
wild pig,^ mouse-deer or chevrotain - (" plandok "), the
monkeys called " k'ra " ^ and "lotong,"^ the civet-cat*
("musang"), the squirrel (" tupai "), "kubong,"^ monitor
lizard' ("bewak"), "malok," imperial pigeon("pergam"),
" kalongkang," " koko," mynah bird® (" tiong "), green
pigeon
'*
(" punai "), the oil of snakes, and many kinds of
fish. The roe-deer ^'^ (" kijang "), the sambhur deer
(" rusa "'), elephant, and bear are not found in Battam.
Flesh of all kinds was cooked by the men, vegetables
by the women. ^^
Another observer of the Sabimba (Thomson), who
visited them shortly after Logan, tells us that their
food consisted of rice as the staple article, but that
they added to this the flesh of the hog, monkey,
snake, and ape, and birds of all kinds excepting that
of the fowl, for the reasons stated in Logan's paper.
Their vegetables consisted of the wild fruits of the
jungle. This tribe was much more helpless than the
Orang Sletar, being entirely dependent on the Malays
for their arms and for the greater part of their food.
They were unacquainted with the brewing of inebriat-
ing liquors, though they informed Thomson that their
tribe formerly possessed the art. In their habits they
were, therefore, as temperate as the Malays.^"
0. Laut, Muka Kuning-,—Of the diet of the Orang
* Sus tnJicits. ^ Hydrosattrus salvator.
^ Tragulus napu and Tragulus ' Mainatits java)if)isis.
kanchil. " Osmatreron vernaus.
3 Macacus cynomolgus. "^ Cervulus mtiutjac.
* Scinnopithectts. '• _/. /. A. vol. i. p. 296.
* Paradoxurus and I'tTerra. *- /b. p. 347.
* GaUopithecus— the Hying squirrel.