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296 WEAPOAS AND IMPLEMENTS iakt 11
" filtered " liquor poured back and the Ipoh (Upas) sap
added, the pot being then boiled till the mixture
becomes a golden-yellow syrup. When sufficiently
thickened it is poured off into bamboo tubes, and is
ready for use. Its preparation takes about 2^ hours.'
II.
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Sakai.
Stone hnpk^nents.
Perak Sakai. — The remarks already made with
regard to the use of stone implements by the Semang
apply with no less force to the Sakai tribes, none of
which, any more than the Semang, has ever yet
reached a stage of civilisation at which such implements
might have been produced, though they may never-
theless have quite well been in the habit of using
chips and flakes of stone to do their cutting.
On the other hand, they are, like the Semang,
undoubtedly acquainted with the use of cutting and
boring instruments made of bamboo or bone, and like
them too they now obtain their axes and spear-heads
and choppers from the neighbouring Malays.
The Spear.
Perak Sakai.—Of the Sakai of Perak Hale" says, in
fact, that they purchase spears and other implements
from the Malays, but that though he also saw spears
which they made for themselves, and which were fur-
nished with fire-hardened bamboo blades, the Sakai
told him the latter were only used for .setting in spring-
traps. This .statement on the part of the Sakai was
doubtless true as far as the .specimens that Mr. Hale
.saw were concerned, but in those parts of the country
' Vaughan-Stevens, ii. in seqq. ^ Hale, p. 288.