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Title: Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; Year: 1908 (1900s) Authors: Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942 Thomas, Northcote Whitridge, 1868- Subjects: Women Publisher: London, New York [etc.] : Cassell and Company, limited Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: life. This dense \-irgin forest is by no meansconfined to the plains—which, in the moresettled parts of the Peninsula, have beento a great extent denuded of trees—butextends up to the very sky-line of thesavage and precipitous hills that form thebackbone of the Peninsula. In the rock-shelters of these uplands the wild Semangmake their lair, and thence descend thethousand rock-strewn torrents which inthe wilder parts of the country serve asfoot-tracks for the mountain-dwelling Sakai,and which even in their smooth broad lowerreaches still form a high-road for tlie Malays, whose scattertd population was, in tlie olddays at least, for the most part riverain.And here and there, in lonely islands off thecoast, or where sandy beaches take the placeof the widely present mangrove, and wherestrange creatures of the deep, such as theblack coral and the sea-pen (called by theMalays the sea-demons boat-pole ), maybe seen as one walks across the hot, bright,smoking sands, we may yet meet small Text Appearing After Image: GROUP OF ABORIGINES, SELANGOR (F.M.S.).Women dressed in the Kabaya * (a kind of loose gown which thev have borrowed fromthe neighbouring Malays), worn over the Malay sarong. The man on the righthas a blowpipe. entire material of groups of the ]\Ialavan Sea Gpysies or OrangLaut, in ever-dwindling numbers, engagedin fishing for the small fry or collectingshellfish. The Jakun are a mi.xed group composedof the Negritos and the Sakai and a third race(of aboriginal Malayan type) which, withtheir round heads, lank and somewhat coarseblue-black hair, and reddish- or yellow-brown skin, are of Mongolian descent. TheIMalayan element is strong enough to ensurethe preponderance of old ]\Ialayan culture,Malayan customs, and Malayan speech ; theyare therefore, perhaps, in some ways the mostimportant of the three. Against this abori-ginal foundation has broken wave after wave i88 WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS of aggressive or peaceful immigrants, ofSiamese in the north and of ]\IohammedanMalays from Sumatra a Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. |
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