Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula - Sabrizain.org

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in all, in 67.5 per cent of the individuals examined. There can therefore be no
question of their being a black race.^
The skin-colour of the darkest of the Jakuns corresponded to No. 28 of
Broca's table. The degree of admixture of Malay blood determines the colour,
making it lighter where the sun does not affect it.
[This remark, however, is doubtless based upon Vaughan- Stevens's Pan-
Negrito theory, the real interpretation of the facts being, no doubt, that the
lighter (and more nearly Malay) colour is due to the purer (aboriginal) Malayan
element.] -
When the skin, as is especially the case among the Jakuns, is much affected
by cutaneous disorders (" Kurap "), the persons of both sexes emit an unpleasant
rank odour, which is still noticeable after washing.-'
Ingredients of
Poison.
PART II.—MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
Pangan Dart Poison.* Page 295.