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304 WEAPONS AiYD IMPLEMENTS part ii
" I poll akar " bark are taken, to which is added one part
ofeachof "prual" and "lampong" bark, and the mixture
is exhausted with boiling water, filtered and evaporated
in the same way as has already been described when
simple " Ipoh akar" is treated.'
It was stated by the Sakai that Antiaris and " Ipoh
akar " are rarely if ever mixed with one another. The
latter poison is said to retain its virulence, in the
form of an extract, for years.
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Jakun.
Weapons and Implements.
The same remarks that have been made with
regard to stone implements in the case of the Semang
and the Sakai apply with at least equal force to the
third branch of these aboriginal tribes, and need
not therefore be recapitulated here. The weapons and
implements of the Jakun at present are the "parang"
or chopping-knife, the "seligi " or "squailer," the spear
(originally of bamboo), the blowpipe, and (finally)
the adze, although knowledge of this latter appears to
have been merely borrowed by the Jakun from their
more progressive neighbours. As has already been
recorded, an old writer declares that he met a Jakun at
Malacca in 1833, who claimed to have killed a man at
the distance of 40 yards (36.5 m.) with a clay pellet
that he had discharged from his blowpipe. "
The Spear.
Of the Jakun spear, we are told that it consists
of an iron blade of about i ft. long (30 cm.) and i in.
(2.5 cm.) broad in the middle, attached to a thick, rudely
worked shaft about five or six feet long, and sharp at
» Wray in/. A. I. vol. xxi. (1892), p. 481. ' lb. ^ Begbie, pp. 5, 6.